POLICY BRIEF: THE NEED FOR AN EARTH-CENTERED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - TOWARDS A UNITED NATIONS EARTH ASSEMBLY

Autores/as

  • Patrícia Nogueira Rinaldi
  • Jorge Calderón Gamboa
  • Juliana Neira
  • María Estrella Sanchez Corchero
  • Mariana Ribeiro Santiago
  • Miguel Ricardo Peña Varón

Resumen

One of the expected deliverables of the Summit of the Future is to measure sustainable development’s actual impact on protecting Nature. Nevertheless, the United Nations (UN) lacks a robust mandate to effectively address the crisis threatening the conditions of life in our Earth system due to the predominance of an anthropocentric perspective that has broken Earth’s ecological balance. In this policy brief, we argue that the UN needs an urgent shift to an Earth-centered approach to sustainable development and, for that, we advocate for the creation of a UN Earth Assembly that would serve as a multilateral space with the mandate of mainstreaming such approach across all UN sustainable development efforts for the effective protection of the Nature. This policy brief discusses a two-pillar mandate of this future UN meeting: 1) to expand an Earth jurisprudence, which entails the rights of Nature, as it has been witnessed in Latin America, Europe, and Asia; and 2) to promote ecological economics, moving away from GDP as a measure for development and building an ecocentric economic model that favors agroecology, socioecological justice and social solidarity initiatives.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Patrícia Nogueira Rinaldi

    Patrícia Nogueira Rinaldi is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the College of Campinas (FACAMP, Brazil) and Director of its Center of Studies and Research in International Relations (CERI-FACAMP). She holds a Ph.D. (2018) and a Master’s Degree (2010) in Political Science at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her research areas are International Cooperation for Development and International Organizations, with a view from the Global South. She is an expert of the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network and conducts research and advocacy initiatives dedicated to strengthening an Earth-centered approach in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

  • Jorge Calderón Gamboa

    Jorge Calderón Gamboa is an Independent Expert of the UN Programme - Harmony With Nature and the MICI - IDB; International Consultant; Professor at the UN-Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, and founder of the Co Evolution Foundation. He was a Senior Coordinating Attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2007- 2019). He was also a Senior Judicial Clerk (Secretario de Estudio y Cuenta) at the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN 2019 - 2023). He was a Visiting Lawyer (Seconded Jurist) at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and Deputy Visitor at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City (Ombudsperson). He is a lawyer in Mexico (LL.B), and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at the American University, Washington College of Law (AU-WCL). He has specialized in Environmental Protection at the Center of Constitutional Studies in México (CEC).

  • Juliana Neira

    Juliana Neira is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vermont, USA, and Fellow at Leadership for the Ecozoic, the Institute for Agroecology, and the Gund Institute for Environment. She is from Bogotá, Colombia, and migrated to Florida, USA as a teenager. Juliana has a Bachelor’s in Biology, a Master’s in Sociocultural Anthropology, and experience as an environmental science teacher in secondary schools. Presently, Juliana is doing participatory fieldwork for her Ph.D. in the south of Brazil, employing critical concepts in ecological economics, economic geography, and political ecology to study alternative food economies. She is interested in learning how agroecology as a paradigm spreads throughout supply chains and affects more just and sustainable local food systems.

  • María Estrella Sanchez Corchero

    María Estrella Sanchez Corchero is a Research Professor and Assistant Doctor of Contemporary Economics and Economic Policy in the Department of Economics and Management of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Economic Anthropology and a degree in Economics and Business Sciences, specializing in International and Development Economics, and a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis, Chinese Studies (focus on Economics), Digital Teaching, and Pedagogical Adaptation. She is an expert in Ecological Economics of the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network and the EQA (European Quality Assurance Spain); and an expert in Economics related to the Housing Market. She is a member of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Development and Environmental Education (UPV-EHU); the World Association of Ecological Economy; the International Network of Biomimicry; the Governing Board of the Basque College of Economists; and the Advisory Council of the Aspasia Foundation.

  • Mariana Ribeiro Santiago

    Mariana Ribeiro Santiago is a professor in the Postgraduate Law Program at the University of Marília, coordinator of the extension project “Incubadora Solidária - INSOLUNIMAR”, at the University of Marília, and editor-in-chief of the journal Argumentum. She holds a Post-doctorate in Law at the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen (Germany) (2018), a doctorate (2012), and master's degree (2004) in law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a law degree (1999) at the Federal University of Bahia. She is an expert of the UN Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network. She is also an author of books and legal articles and a Lawyer in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  • Miguel Ricardo Peña Varón

    Miguel Ricardo Peña Varón is Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at Institute Cinara in Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. He earned his M.Sc (1996) and Ph.D (2002) degrees at the University of Leeds, UK. He undertook a Master of Arts programme on Philosophy (2012) at Universidad del Valle, COL. He is a researcher in the areas of ecological engineering applied to the solution of environmental pollution problems; he also works on environmental health issues, specifically on the topic of pollution and its impact on human health. In the last ten years, he started a new area of research on environmental ethics as a framework for the analysis of conflicts in the Society Nature relationship. Prof. Peña has been associate editor of scientific journals in the water and environmental fields and has authored and co-authored several scientific papers and book chapters on his areas of expertise. He is currently the CoPI for Colombia in the International project Hub in Water Security and Sustainable Development funded by UKRI under the GCRF scheme.

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Publicado

2024-12-19 — Actualizado el 2024-12-20

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Número

Vol. 25 Núm. 3 (2024): SET.-DEZ./2024

Sección

Harmony with Nature

Licencia

Declaro, para os devidos fins de direitos e obrigações, sob as penas previstas na legislação vigente, que como autor(a)/detentor(a) dos direitos autorais do artigo submetido, cedo-os à Revista Argumentum, nos termos da Lei Federal nº 9.610 de 19 de fevereiro de 1998 (Lei dos Direitos Autorais).