Soft Law in Public International Law: A Pragmatic or a Principled Choice? Comparing the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel M.T.A. Brus
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainable Development and International Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
Robert McCorquodale ◽  
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Frequent Failure

Public international law norms are relevant to a wide range of the sustainable development goals. Yet there is a frequent failure to connect the two spheres and there is very limited literature on the interaction between public international law, and the policy and political frameworks that underpin development.

scholarly journals Energy investment needs for fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Nature Energy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 589-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. McCollum ◽  
Wenji Zhou ◽  
Christoph Bertram ◽  
Harmen-Sytze de Boer ◽  
Valentina Bosetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

scholarly journals Implementing the SDG-13 through the Adoption of Hybrid Law: Addressing Climate-Induced Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-100
Author(s):  
Stellina Jolly ◽  
Abhishek Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

The sustainable development goals (sdgs) with their integrated linkage of development and environmental concerns have been hailed as a paradigm shift in the attainment of sustainability. The article attempts to understand the normative framework that underwrites international law and sdg-13 vis-a-vis climate change with a special focus on climate-induced displacement. It explores the existing provisions, limitations, and gaps under international law with regard to displacement associated with climate change. More specifically, the analysis assesses the potential of hybrid law in promoting the goals of sdg-13. The hybrid law approach proposed in this article involves the amalgamation of substantive norms from different branches of international law, integration of norms of differing legal status and engagement of state and non-state actors. The analysis explores the concept of hybrid law, surveys the Nansen Protection Agenda and the Global Compact on Migration and analyses their suitability in exploring solutions to climate displacement. The article evaluates how the adoption of the sdgs provides a foundation for the development of a hybrid law in examining solutions to climate displacement under sdg-13.

scholarly journals What Do We Mean by Sustainable Finance? Assessing Existing Frameworks and Policy Risks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 975
Author(s):  
Marco Migliorelli
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Cost

I observe that the sustainable finance landscape as it stands today is featured by an overabundance of heterogeneous concepts, definitions, industry and policy standards. I argue that such heterogeneity may hinder the smooth development of the conceptual thinking underpinning sustainable finance and originates specific risks that may harm the credibility of the nascent market. These risks include green and sustainable washing, the rebranding of financial flows without additionality, the disordered adjustment in the cost of capital spreads between industries. I argue that to reflect the actual industry and policy context as wells as to steer conceptual and applied practice sustainable finance should be today referred to as “finance for sustainability”. To this extent, both its definition and implementing standards should make clear reference to the relevant sustainability dimensions (in particular in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement) and to the sectors or activities that positively contribute to these dimensions.

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