Policy makers, struggling to respond to migration within Africa and from Africa to Europe, have turned to economic development as a means to improve prospects in potential migrants’ home countries. The logic goes, if people have livelihoods in their home countries they are less likely to undertake the dangerous journey across Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe. (mehr …)
Zwei Jahre nach Verabschiedung der Agenda 2030 und des Pariser Klimaabkommens ist Deutschland von deren konsequenter Umsetzung weit entfernt. Es fehlt vor allem am politischen Willen, aber auch an ressortübergreifender Abstimmung und ganzheitlichem Regierungshandeln. Doch wie können wir echte Politikkohärenz für die sozial-ökologische Transformation erreichen? Eine grüne Idee ist es, einen „SDG-TÜV“ für Nachhaltigkeit, Frieden und Menschenrechte auf Regierungsebene einzuführen und die bestehenden Nachhaltigkeitsstrukturen zu stärken.
The recently held G20 Summit in Hamburg has set high hopes for the G20 process in terms of being inclusive, effective and result-oriented. The fact that trade, investment, migration, terrorism and many other priorities including excess capacity in the steel sector could be incorporated with specific action is testimony to collective commitment for a better world.
At its creation the G20 was meant to facilitate coordination, cooperation and problem-solving among key actors in a specific policy field, which then was global financial stability. The G20 was not meant to be a jack-of-all-trades, offering welcoming words and restating support for long-accepted and previously reconfirmed goals, as most subsequent G20 summits did.
