Authors Iain Begg | Gabriel Glöckler | Anke Hassel ... - The Europaeum
Authors Iain Begg | Gabriel Glöckler | Anke Hassel ... - The Europaeum Authors Iain Begg | Gabriel Glöckler | Anke Hassel ... - The Europaeum
150 After the crisis: A new socio-economic settlement for the EU
Chapter 11 Reconciling Europe’s competitiveness with sustainable development Iain Begg The idea of sustainable development resonates widely with policymakers and the public alike, and is often found in documents or vision statements mapping the way forward for both developed and developing economies. It is one of the fundamental aims of the European Union, prominently set out in article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and the Lisbon Treaty. In 2006, the EU agreed a revised Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) which not only updated the aims of the strategy that had been established five years earlier, but elaborated the governance mechanisms intended to advance these aims. Yet despite the enthusiasm for the concept and the spread of initiatives and strategies, it is far from obvious either that the current trajectory of economic development is sustainable or that inroads are being made into global sustainability problems. An especially critical view is offered by David G. Victor 1 who observes that “even as sustainable development has become conventional wisdom over the past two decades, something has gone horribly wrong”, and he notes the proliferation of largely meaningless checklists and targets, rather than substantive policies, whether in the environmental or social dimensions. Since the Brundtland report (1987) first set out a comprehensive view of sustainable development, the concept has been narrowed towards environmental − especially climate change – and quality of life issues (a Chapter 11 – Iain Begg 151
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