Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Global Governance Challenges Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development Series

This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by the SDGs.

The contributors are experts in global governance issues in a broad variety of fields ranging from health, food systems, social policy, migration and climate change. An introductory chapter sets out the broad context of the governance challenges involved, and how individual chapters contribute to the analysis. The book begins by focusing on individual SDGs, examining briefly the background to the particular goal and evaluating the opportunities and challenges (particularly governance challenges) in achieving the goal, as well as discussing how this goal relates to other SDGs. The book goes on to address the broader issues of achieving the set of goals overall, examining the novel financing mechanisms required for an enterprise of this nature, the trade-offs involved (particularly between the urgent climate agenda and the social/economic goals), the institutional arrangements designed to enable the achievement of the goals and offering a critical perspective on the enterprise as a whole.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals makes a distinctive contribution by covering a broad range of individual goals with contributions from experts on governance in the global climate, social and economic areas as well as providing assessments of the overall project ? its financial feasibility, institutional requisites, and its failures to tackle certain problems at the core. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of international affairs, development studies and sustainable development, as well as those engaged in policymaking nationally, internationally and those working in NGOs.

Foreword 1. Global Governance Challenges in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Introduction 2. Food System Lessons from the SDGs 3. From MDGs to SDGs: Health Slips in Global Priorities 4. Gender Equality from the MDGs to the SDGs: The Struggle Continues 5. Gender, Labour Migration Governance, and the SDGs: Lessons from the Case of Nepal 6. The Problem with International Migration and Sustainable Development 7. SDGs and Climate Change Adaptation in Asian Megacities: Synergies and Opportunities for Transformation8. Climate Change, Security, and Sustainability9. Development as a Determinant of Climate Risk and Policy Challenge 10. Religion and the Sustainable Development Goals 11. The Ecological Limits of the Sustainable Development Goals 12. Development as Usual: Ethical Reflections on the SDGs 13. Financing the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond Official Development Assistance 14. Sustainable Finance and the SDGs: The Role of the Banking Sector 15. Global Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals

Simon Dalby, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Susan Horton, Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, and Professor, Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada

Rianne Mahon, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Diana Thomaz, Doctoral Candidate, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada