Global Governance
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- Created on: 23-03-21 09:23
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- Global Governance
- What is global governance?
- The international issues it focuses on:
- Financial instability
- Civil conflict
- Reducing environmental problems
- Trade and investment inequities
- Reduction of poverty
- Human rights violations
- The ways in which global affairs affecting the whole world are managed
- The international issues it focuses on:
- The UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (2015)
- The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
- Focused the world's attention & action towards meeting difficult challenges
- Included:
- Improving people's lives
- Included:
- Summits held:
- To reinvigorate global commitment to sustainable development
- Assess progress on SDGs & targets
- Advance international co-operation
- Rio Earth Summit, 1992, was important in setting out Agenda 21
- Focused the world's attention & action towards meeting difficult challenges
- Agenda 21
- Voluntary action plan agreed by many governments to develop strategies for long-term sustainable development
- Rio Earth Summit, 1992, was important in setting out Agenda 21
- Top-down approach looking to encourage bottom-up response
- Voluntary action plan agreed by many governments to develop strategies for long-term sustainable development
- UN Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- World Summits on Climate Change
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Responsible body for overseeing negotiations on reducing greenhouse emissions
- Main aim = Hold global temp rises to a max of 1.5 degrees C
- Other features of deal:
- All countries voluntarily cut emissions
- Long-term aim to reduce net emissions to 0
- Review mechanism every 5 years to manage warming
- Loss & damage mechanism for vulnerable countries facing losses from climate change
- E.g. From sea level rise & storm impacts
- Other features of deal:
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- Has been leading global environmental authority since 1972
- Their work is part of UN system wide preparations for SDGs
- World Summits on Climate Change
- Importance of NGOs
- Global force to:
- Protect human rights & provide essential services to most needy
- Democratise decision making
- Operational & Advocacy NGOs
- Operational NGOs
- Provide frontline support to the needy
- Tend to raise money for each project
- E.g. Oxfam
- Advocacy NGOs
- Focus on campaigns to raise awareness to gain support for a cause
- Derive money from donations/sub-scriptions
- E.g. Friends of the Earth
- Operational NGOs
- Not tied to interests of governments
- Important in supporting development
- Give voice to poorest parts of the world
- Global force to:
- What is global governance?
- Aim to strengthen post-2015 frameworks for:
- Development
- Global sustainable development
- Disaster risk reduction
- Climate change
- The UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (2015)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Aims:
- Eradication of poverty and reduction of inequalities & exclusion
- Operates in 170 countries
- Main work has been to lead the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- 8 anti-poverty targets
- Set in Sep 2000 to be achieved by 2015
- Aims:
- Conserving natural resources
- For growing population
- Included:
- Improving people's lives
- Opponents see it as:
- Attack on personal liberties
- Attack on private property
- Having focus on population control
- Agenda 21
- Voluntary action plan agreed by many governments to develop strategies for long-term sustainable development
- Top-down approach looking to encourage bottom-up response
- Voluntary action plan agreed by many governments to develop strategies for long-term sustainable development
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