Professor Global Sustainability Governance @UniUtrecht 🇪🇺 | Director @GlobalGoals_ERC | Founder, Earth System Governance @ESG_Project 🌍 | Editor @ESG_Journal
Jun 20, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
📢 New paper in NATURE SUSTAINABILITY:
Based on 2-yr meta-analysis, involving 61 international experts, we conclude that the UN #SDGs haven’t had much impact so far.
We analysed whether #SDGs have brought about any discursive, normative or institutional changes in political systems.
Nationally & internationally.
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Feb 2, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A few remarks on the emergence of the WIREs article that calls for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering.
A Thread (1/16)
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc…
(2/16) First, this piece in WIREs Climate Change is not a research article but a short “Perspective”, a format formerly called “Opinion” meant to “set out new agendas for research and action” and “may be deliberately provocative”.
solargeoeng.org
63 scholars argue that solar geoengineering deployment cannot be fairly governed globally; it poses unacceptable risks & and its development threatens to delay & derail decarbonization policies.
Here is what we do: 👇
We look at five areas of achievement, called “MERIT”: Management, Education, Research, Impact, and Team Spirit. Note that Research is only one of the five. In promotion decisions, we look at each one of these criteria.
