Breaking the mold: a new type of multilateral sustainable development negotiation
Breaking the mold: a new type of multilateral sustainable development negotiation
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DOI：
10.1007/s10784-016-9320-2
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Wagner, Lynn M.
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作者：
Chasek, Pamela S.;Wagner, Lynn M.
一次又一次地提醒可持续发展目标开放工作组(工作组)的与会者，制定可持续发展目标的进程没有模式。他们决心不重复用于制定千年发展目标的封闭进程，但当未能达成共识和对多边环境谈判的疲惫占据代表们的脑海时，工作组开始工作，而不是成功谈判结果的例子。特设工作组联合主席面临着一项艰巨的任务：指导代表努力制定一套所有人都能同意的拟议的明确的可持续发展目标和目标，因此必须实现以下目标：(1)减少授权的僵化，包括在个别成员国和联盟内部；(2)最大限度地提高参与感、透明度和主人翁意识，以最终获得最大程度的认同；(3)建立一种信任感，以改变成员国之间的关系。为此，OWG联合主席打破了会员国和观察员已经熟悉的联合国多边谈判模式，并创造了一种不同的方法。本文审查了工作组如何实现这些目标，并克服其他可持续发展多边谈判进程的缺点，以便在各国政府努力在许多多边谈判轨道上达成协议的情况下，产生得到广泛支持的协商一致结果。
Participants in the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were reminded time and again that there is no model for the process to develop the SDGs. They resolved to not repeat the closed process used to develop the Millennium Development Goals, but the OWG began work when failures to reach consensus and fatigue with multilateral environmental negotiations dominated delegates' minds, rather than examples of successfully negotiated outcomes. The OWG Co-Chairs were faced with the daunting task of guiding delegates' efforts to develop a proposed set of crisp SDGs and targets that all could agree to, and thus, had to accomplish the following goals: (1) reduce delegation rigidity, both of individual Member States and within coalitions; (2) maximize the sense of participation, transparency, and ownership to get the most buy-in at the end; and (3) develop a sense of trust that would change the relationship between Member States. To do this, the OWG Co-Chairs broke the mold of UN multilateral negotiations that Member States and observers had become familiar with and created a different approach. This article examines how the OWG accomplished these goals and overcame the shortcomings of other multilateral negotiating processes on sustainable development to produce a widely supported consensus outcome at a time when governments have struggled to achieve agreement in many multilateral negotiation tracks.