Sustainable development and the United Nations' environmental policies: a critical balance of 50 years: recovery of global cooperation as an example of the 17th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)

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Published 08-12-2021
Iñaki Barcena Hinojal Izaro Basurko Pérez de Arenaza

Abstract

In 1972 the United Nations organized the international conference “Man and Biosphere” in Stockholm with the aim of observing the socio-ecological crisis that was taking place on our planet. Since this first environmental international conference, we have known deep socio-political changes in the world, we have gone from a bipolar situation to a multipolar geopolitics and we have known the rapid process of accelerating globalization from the disappearance of the Berlin Wall to the pandemic of COVID-19, among others. Since then, in this last half century, this international organization (UN) has been a major benchmark in the center of environmental policy, both for all the State-Nations and for socio-political agents and citizens of the world.

In this article, we offer a  brief and critical review of the main milestones and axes of the United Nations in the last 50 years is made in the first paragraph, in the second section,  we do reference to the Objective 17 of the Millennium Goals and in the third section, we analyzed the concept of Sustainable Development and the results of the associated environmental policies.

KEYWORDS: Sustainable Development Goal, SDG, Alliances, Socio-ecological crisis, Environmental Policies, Ecological Debt.

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