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2020 International Research Symposium GLOBALGOALS2020

The Netherlands
Utrecht
Event start: 20200609
End date: 20200611

Event description

Scholars are invited to join the ESG endorsed event GLOBALGOALS2020, a virtual symposium, held 9-11 June 2020 and hosted by Utrecht, the Netherlands.

In 2015, the international community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 targets as part of a global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The ambition expressed in these goals is unprecedented; the Agenda aims at nothing less than ‘Transforming Our World’. But can this prominent example of global goal-setting, as a new central approach in global governance, help resolve the pressing challenges of economic development, poverty eradication, social justice, and global environmental protection?

The 2020 SDG Research Symposium provides a forum for the exchange of cutting-edge research and policy studies on this question. The Symposium brings together a broad group of leading social scientists from universities and prominent think tanks for a first stocktaking of what we know about the actual impact of ‘governance through goals’. The SDG Research Symposium will not address sustainability governance as such but focus on assessing the effects of global goal-setting, with special emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals as the premier and most comprehensive global goal-setting effort to-date.

More information on the GlobalGoals2020 website

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