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Summary of the Discussion
Dr. Amelia shared her research work which focuses on Implementation of goals through different approach which can be partnership or participation. She further speaks on the importance of localising the Sustainable Development Goals and the deep Decarbonization strategy which is also crucial in achieving the Global Goals.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Amelia Clarke is the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dr. Jason J. McSparren is an educator, researcher, and administrator with a PhD. in Global Governance and Human Security from Massachusetts Boston.
Q&A
Dr. McSparren: Fantastic work. Thank you very much. Thank you very, very much. Okay, I'd like to begin now with the question and answer period. Okay, again, ladies and gentlemen in the audience, if you're interested in asking a question, please raise your hand or type your question into the chatbox. And then, we will call on you unmute your screen so that you can ask your question, or if you prefer if it's in the chat box, I can always ask.
But as I was listening to the presentation. One thing came to mind that that jumped out on me. Actually, there are a lot of very interesting details. This is a really fantastic research; it can have a big impact on sustainable development progress and the actualisation of the SDGs going forward. So that's really great work. I want to commend the two of you. But one thing that I thought about really quickly is, you mentioned, Dr. Clarke, that you have some of these multi-stakeholder group projects are either voluntarily put together or they are contract-based. And I was wondering if in your conclusions in your findings. Did you find that one or the other is more successful, or was that something that you weren't necessarily looking at?
Dr. Clarke: So what we're finding is that at the local scale, they're all relevant.And so then it's a question for what.So generally, organisations get involved with a partnership approach because they've, they want to tackle something that's outside their jurisdiction, or they don't have the resources to do it.And so that drives them to want to partner with someone else. So, if the main resource you're missing is capital, don't have the money to do an infrastructure project for example, then a PPP might be the right approach. On the other hand, if you're missing kind of collective action by many actors simultaneously. And you want to move forward on a lot of aspects because these are very complicated problems. Then a multi-stakeholder kind of cross sector partnership will enable you to engage many actors from local universities to local businesses to civil society, to all collectively work towards the same vision. So, each one has a purpose. And what we're seeing in the climate spaces now there's a lot of sector approaches. So they're starting to develop partnerships very specific on transportation, for example. And then another one over here on electricity. So, again, it depends on what you're missing right how much do you control the local utilities or it's another company. How much needs to be done through partnership or how much you can do yourself.
Dr. McSparren: Yes, interesting I asked that question because in some of my research, I've looked at voluntary governance mechanisms in the mining sector, and again in the literature, there's a lot of talk about the effectiveness or sometimes lack thereof. And those so I'll just kind of wondering about your perspective in the sustainability front.
Dr. Clarke: I'm glad you brought up mining. So, this is a perfect example of a participation approach versus a partnership approach. And if you're doing stakeholder engagement, but you completely control their decision, and you're going to completely implement all the decisions that's not collaborative right, where if it's a partnership approach where you let the community have a big say in what's happening here. Then you're starting to get into a more partnership approach.
Favourite Quote
“The Sustainable Community plans are a wonderful way of localizing the SDGs and bringing those topics all down to local scale and what can be achieved at the local scale.”
Top Comments
I am very appreciative by the insightful information shared by both Professor Clarke and by Mr. Bayo at today's Green Room event-Filomena