Focus 2019 Culture and Society

Read the articles selected for the Sustainable Development Festival 2019

SDGs 13, 3

Greta Thunberg

By Sarah Diffalah

Source: L’Obs, 14 March

This girl, who has become the symbol of the future also thanks to her syndrome, so emblematic for the new generations, shows with her personal life how climate change is not something which concerns the others, but is deeply intertwined with our own existence.

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SDGs 13, 10

Youth and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development

Source: https://www.un.org

The 2030 Agenda challenges reveil their real, serious side if we think on youth. On the shoulder of the most vulnerable part of the world’s population will be built the sustainable development. Their rights and aspirations do matter more than their workforce and have a place in the 2030 Agenda.

SDGs 13,9

Co-creative innovation must be core mission of universities

By Liz Newmark

Source: University World News, 12 March

Universities are becoming more able to address challenges like climate change, globalization and digitalization. Multidisciplinarity is the key to manage the amount of data provided by the economy of information.

SDG 13

Building upon foundations for evidence-based policy

By Robert Hahn

Source: Science, 10 May

In the US, thinks tanks and academic circles are pushing the legislative machine towards a political method more based on the evidence of facts and on rigorous evaluations, to shift to that cultural change needed to address today’s political changes.

SDGs 13, 1, 10

Put equity first in climate adaptation

By Marc Pelling & Matthias Garshagen

Source: Nature, 14 May

To fight the poverty, policymakers should look at the bottom numbers of the poverty rates, and put the poor that don’t sum up the average in the centre of the governments’ agendas. In particular, the poorest are also the most vulnerable to climate change.

SDG 13

UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Source: https://www.un.org

The next UN Climate Summit, taking place on 23 September, wants to collect the energy of the movements of countries, companies, cities and civil society towards the objectives of the Paris Agreement, showing that keeping the global temperature below 2°C above preindustrial levels is still possible.

SDG 13

Global warming has increasedglobal economic inequality

By Noah S. Diffenbauch & Marshall Burke

Source: asvis.it

This article tries to demonstrate that the anthropogenic climate change has sharpened inequalities between warm and cool countries due to the different effect of the heightened temperatures on the economic growth, in addition to the inequal distribution of the benefits of the fossil fuel use.

SDG 13

Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

Source: http://www.undp.org

Climate change is the most disruptive risk factor for the efforts displayed in these decades to reduce hunger and disparities and that have in fact achieved an impressive growth in Africa in the last decades. Climate change adaptation is the result of transformational thinking and bold actions in all the topics of the 2030 Agenda.

SDGs 13, 10, 8

Global environmental consequences of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt

By Nicholas Golledge etc.

Source: Nature, 6 February

As mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice is accelerating , the global sea level rising and the Atlantic overturning circulation slowing, the ice-ocean- atmosphere feedbacks that may arise as a consequence of ice-sheet melting, though spatially variable, will affect the Earth system with societal and economic consequences.

SDG 13

New climate models predict a warming surge

By Paul Voosen

Source: Science, 16 April

After the new models used to simulate global climate patterns , the world could warm 2°C within the next few decades, revealing a dangerous trend toward a 5°C rise in temperatures over preindustrial levels, which has less time to be contrasted than thought.

SDGs 16, 8

Investing in people. Creative Europe 2021-2027

Fonte: European Commission

Creative Europe is a new European programme for the culture and creativity, produced and expressed in different sectors of the cultural industry, to promote common values and economic growth, while addressing the central challenges of our time.

SDGs 16, 13

The Global Risks Report 2019

Source: http://www3.weforum.org

A new era of state-centered politics , projected in the own domestical interests, sees geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions hardening. In this context, global challenges like environment protection and the human side of global risks shift in the second line.

SDGs 13, 16

Going for green(er) growth – what can indicators tell us?

Source: http://www.oecd.org

Green growth is as much an elusive as an inexhaustible concept, which indicates the ties between every economic activity and one broadly-defined environment. A set of key indicators identify the structural reform priorities for long-term economic growth and well-being.

SDGs 13, 16

Groundswell. Preparing for internal climate migration

Source: https://www.worldbank.org/

This report shows the human face of the migration issue, delivering a set of indicators that help countries understand the interactions among climate impacts, ecosystems, livelihoods and mobility and integrate climate migration into national development plans.

SDGs 16, 13

L’Italia chiama Europa. L’ambiente ritrovato

Source: WWF

In the same way it has built from the ruins of the World War the Single Market, Europe has elaborated from the failure of the past economic models a new, valorial concept of well-being through all the Union’s policies, in which is realized and evolving the concept of sustainable development expressed by the UN.

SDGs 16, 11

Environmental rule of law

Source: https://wedocs.unep.org

The thought about Sustainibility in the intersection of environmental, socio-economic and public health claims has led to the development of a national and international environmental legislation more and more prolific, though often lacking the rule of law, crucial for the necessarity and effectivity of legislative declarations.

SDGs 16, 11

Ready to help?

Source: oecd.org

This report is a tool for preparing the host countries to manage the migrants flows, showing that the lack of a plan to cope with the emergency and the integration sharps the perception of the problem, triggering a political crisis which the humanitarian situation in itself would not justify.

SDGs 16, 11

Europe’s approach to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Source : the European Parliament

The EU shows an ambitious approach to sustainable development. But it is equally clear the need to implement the coordination between the different levels of administration, so that, in the light of the Agenda 2030, the economic aspect doesn’t dominate the environmental and social dimensions.

SDGs 16, 10

Growth can overcome the loss of faith in global co-operation

By Christine Lagarde

Source: The Economist, 19 September

The SDGs are the antidote to the lost of trust in the institutions, and the rise of social unjustice in the most advanced economies. They represent the hope in the future, when incomes inequalities and inequalities of opportunities are undermining the sense of community and the idea of a meritocratic society .

SDGs 16, 3, 8

Safety and health at the hearth of the future of work

Source: ILO

The recognition of safety and health at work is the fundament of any other right. OSH have an impact on the life of people in general and on the whole society. Promoting a culture of forecasting and the education on OSH helps to develop a human-centred way to stay at work.

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SDGs 10, 8

Online work in Oecd countries

Source: http://www.oecd.org

The platform economy can be seen as a new opportunity in the world of work, characterized by a greater flexibility, which raises concerns for labour and social protections. It’s an expanding phenomenon, yet not easy to understand, being mostly unreported and informal.

SDGs 5, 10, 9

OECD Skills Outlook 2019

Source: oecd.org

The lack of adequate competencies to actively enjoy the digital world of the work and the daily life, as well as the risk to strengthen inequalities, require a range of cognitive, socioemotional and digital skills to be developed, and to extend with appropriate policies the width of lifelong learning.

SDG 8

The future of work Oecd Employment Outlook 2019

Source: oecd.org

The transformations in the world of work require stronger social protections before the heightened uncertainties and the new forms of work emerging in a grey zone between dependent and self-employment, not at all defined by the current regulations , designed for the world of yesterday.

SDGs 16, 5, 10

General discussion on trafficking of women and girls in the context of global migration

Source: un.org

This paper frames women’s traffic in the context of the violation of human rights and of violence as the result of the combinated expressions of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women(DEVAW) and the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

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SDGs 5, 10

Gender-inclusive language

Source: http://www.un.org

These Guidelines have been widespread by the United Nations among their staff to get them communicate in a gender-inclusive manner which means harnessing the properties of language to make women visible and raise awareness of gender discrimination.

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