Planet under Pressure
The 2020s are the make-or-break decade for Sustainability. But Covid-19 questions almost everything. How can we handle increasingly frequent shocks? What can a resilient society and economy that is in line with planetary boundaries look like? These and many other questions are discussed in the new 2020 edition of the Global Goals Yearbook titled “Planet under Pressure”. The Yearbook supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is one of the publications in strong international demand.
The 2020s are the make-or-break decade for Sustainability. But Covid-19 questions almost everything. How can we handle increasingly frequent shocks? What can a resilient society and economy that is in line with planetary boundaries look like? These and many other questions are discussed in the new 2020 edition of the Global Goals Yearbook titled “Planet under Pressure”. The Yearbook supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is one of the publications in strong international demand.
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After the opening remarks were made,<br />
a riveting multistakeholder panel discussion<br />
took place in which panelists<br />
shared how effective structures for implementing<br />
the SDGs can be preserved<br />
or established in view of the crisis of<br />
multilateralism – and, in particular,<br />
what role the economy should play<br />
in this.<br />
Marlehn Thieme, Chairwoman of the<br />
German Council for Sustainable Development,<br />
stressed the urgency of climate<br />
protection: “Transformation without<br />
ambition is only a hollow gesture. Those<br />
who want to keep the black zero in the<br />
long term must want and take into<br />
account the green zero today. We do<br />
not need more spending on sustainability,<br />
but a budget that is consistently<br />
aligned with the SDGs.” Moreover, she<br />
criticized the results of the UN Climate<br />
Summit in New York in September 2019,<br />
saying: “There is no common roadmap<br />
for achieving the goal of limiting global<br />
warming to 1.5°C.”<br />
Marcel Engel, head of the German<br />
network of the UN Initiative Global<br />
Compact, emphasized the opportunities<br />
that sustainability presents for companies:<br />
“They can minimize risks, increase<br />
their resilience, maintain trust, attract<br />
talented workers, develop new business<br />
models and products, and open up new<br />
markets.”<br />
Dr. Elmer Lenzen, Chair of the macondo<br />
foundation, emphasized the role of<br />
multilateralism: “Multilateralism means<br />
replacing the power play of the great<br />
influencers with rules to which everyone<br />
submits. Everyone gives and everyone<br />
gets.”<br />
Mark Griffiths, Global Leader Climate<br />
Business Hub WWF, shared: “We have to<br />
do business in a different way. Part of the<br />
solution is to work with companies because<br />
they will move faster than politics.”<br />
During a rigorous idea-sharing session,<br />
Volans’ Richard Robert shared that “to<br />
be where we need to get to in time, it is<br />
going to require enormous courage from<br />
leaders in the business sector; courage<br />
to be ridiculed; courage to fail, and to<br />
fail better.”<br />
Cléo Mieulet, from the Extinction<br />
Rebellion, also shared her two cents<br />
while taking on Melanie Kubin-Hardewig,<br />
VP Group Sustainability Management<br />
Deutsche Telekom, in a discussion, saying:<br />
“You try to grasp the problem but<br />
you continue to hit the brakes toward<br />
attaining the Global Goals. That is a<br />
schizophrenic behavior.” >><br />
150 Global Goals Yearbook 2020
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