Over the last decades, governments negotiated and adopted various environmental goals under different international regimes and agreements to tackle global environmental issues. Despite some progress, the realization of many of these goals remains out of close reach. In order to reduce the gap between ambitions and actual achievements in the future, we need to better understand what makes national implementation of environmental goals work and take that into consideration when planning the implementation of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This questionnaire was designed to identify the most important factors in the implementation of international environmental goals (such us the UNFCCC, the Montreal Protocol, the CBD or the MDG7 targets) at the national level. The geographic focus includes selected emerging economies of Asia and Europe. The questions below are based on an extensive document review that covered the implementation of MDG7 and related international environmental agreements in 20 countries in emerging Asia and Europe.
Based on the most important factors of environmental goal implementation that will emerge through this questionnaire, a set of governance indicators will be developed to help proactively assess the capacity of countries to implement the environmental components of the SDGs. Based on the indicators a Sustainability Management Transition Index (STMI) will be designed for high-level analysis and comparison of countries’ readiness to implement environmental goals.
The questionnaire is part of an independent research at the Central European University. Its results will be built both into a doctoral thesis and through participation in relevant scientific and policy fora inform the international discourse on implementing the SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda.
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