Krauss Judith E, Jiménez Cisneros Andrea, Requena-I-Mora Marina
University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN UK.
Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain.
Sustain Sci. 2022;17(5):1855-1872. doi: 10.1007/s11625-022-01112-3. Epub 2022 Mar 21.
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) aspire to be integrated and indivisible, balance the three dimensions of sustainable development and transform our world by going beyond previously agreed language. Focusing on decoloniality and equity, we explore whether these aspirations are met in analysing five goals, their targets and indicators interlinking especially the economy-ecology spheres: SDGs 8 (economic growth), 9 (industry and innovation), 12 (sustainable production and consumption), 13 (climate action) and 15 (life on land). We examine two interconnected foci. Having mapped the connections which exist, according to official UN data, between these goals' indicators, we examine definitions and delineations in SDGs 8, 9, 12, 13 and 15 through a decolonial lens, focusing on universality, absences and modernity-coloniality. A second step investigates the equity implications of these framings, using indicator data to illustrate abiding injustices. Our original contribution is thus retracing these connections and contradictions, their intellectual heritage and their equity implications in the detail of these five SDGs, their targets and indicators, combining the sustainable development and decolonial literatures in novel ways. We find that trade-offs, absences and justice shortcomings call into question the attainment of the SDGs' objectives of leaving no one behind while safeguarding advances for people, planet, prosperity, peace and prosperity. We recognize the SDGs' opportunity to rethink how we want to co-exist in this world. However, we argue that recognizing absences, trade-offs and equity shortcomings are key prerequisites to attain genuine transformations for justice and sustainability through the SDGs.
联合国可持续发展目标（UN SDGs）旨在实现综合与不可分割，平衡可持续发展的三个维度，并超越先前商定的表述方式来改变我们的世界。聚焦去殖民化与公平性，我们通过分析五个目标及其相互关联的具体目标和指标，尤其是经济 - 生态领域的目标：可持续发展目标8（经济增长）、9（产业与创新）、12（可持续生产与消费）、13（气候行动）和15（陆地生物），来探究这些目标是否得以实现。我们审视两个相互关联的重点。在根据联合国官方数据梳理出这些目标指标之间存在的联系之后，我们通过去殖民化视角审视可持续发展目标8、9、12、13和15中的定义与界定，重点关注普遍性、缺失之处以及现代性 - 殖民性。第二步利用指标数据说明持续存在的不公正现象，调查这些框架所蕴含的公平性影响。因此，我们的原创贡献在于以新颖的方式将可持续发展文献与去殖民化文献相结合，追溯这五个可持续发展目标及其具体目标和指标细节中的这些联系与矛盾、它们的知识传承以及公平性影响。我们发现，权衡取舍、缺失之处以及正义缺陷对实现可持续发展目标中“不让任何一个人掉队”的同时保障人类、地球、繁荣、和平与福祉进步的目标提出了质疑。我们认识到可持续发展目标为重新思考我们希望在这个世界上如何共处提供了契机。然而，我们认为认识到缺失之处、权衡取舍和公平性缺陷是通过可持续发展目标实现真正的正义与可持续性变革的关键先决条件。
