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6 Global Goals Yearbook 2021
FRAMING THE DEBATE Sustainability Between Justice and Urgency We are experiencing the allgoes-with-everything crisis: climate change, pandemics, zoonoses, species extinction, shrinking resources, a widening gap between rich and poor, digitalization, disruptions in the economy, the rise of populists and autocrats, and so on. Dr. Elmer Lenzen Publisher Global Goals Yearbook More and more people are realizing that business as usual is no longer an option. We need change, and we need it as quickly and as sustainably as possible. UN Secretary-General António Guterres therefore is calling for a “Decade of action.” Guterres, together with experts, politicians, and business leaders, knows that the 2020s are the make-or-break years for sustainable development. Despite some successes in development and environmental politics, progress is far from sufficient to achieve real sustainable development. While we now know relatively well what needs to be done and changed in many areas, the changes are not progressing fast enough. Until now, economics have largely ignored planetary boundaries and most sustainability problems. At least this is changing: Key concepts such as “purpose,” “growth,” and “value” are being rethought and reassessed. This, in turn, will radically change the rules of the game in business. A tension between ecological modernization on the one hand, and structural ecologization on the other, is increasingly shaping the sustainability debate. In the process, they become the reason for dispute: Representatives of a modernization agenda tend to focus on reform from within and therefore call for technological innovations and market incentives. Representatives of an ecological turnaround, on the other hand, argue that the fight against climate change must take precedence over everything else and call for disruptive sufficiency and degrowth solutions. Our Common Future At first glance, this is a typical discussion between different interest groups and their influence on current developments. At second glance, however, it is also a fundamental discussion about the question of who gets the sovereignty of interpretation over the shaping of our future. If the future belongs to our children, don’t they also have to decide about it? This implies the reinterpretation of the concept of intergenerational justice. The term is not entirely new, as it already appears in the most frequently quoted sustainability definition by the Brundtland Report Our Common Future from 1987: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” What is new, however, is the question of discourse sovereignty derived from this definition. The geographer, environmental, and urban researcher Sybille Bauriedl describes this very aptly: “For 50 years now, the urgency of securing the long-term basis of human existence – and human existence itself – has been pronounced. The study ‘Limits to Growth’ (Meadows 1972) was only one wake-up call of very many. The Fridays for Future movement brought the increasingly comprehensive crisis diagnoses back onto the public agenda, calling for the sustainability goals of intergenerational equity and global justice. Since then, more and more terms have entered the environmental debate that are used synonymously. The most discursively powerful terms are currently ‘socio-ecological transformation,’ ‘degrowth,’ ‘green growth,’ ‘just transition,’ and ‘climate neutrality.’ >> Global Goals Yearbook 2021 7
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