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Since sustainable development entered the international agenda in the mid-1980s, sustainable development governance (SDG) has evolved rapidly. The term SDG refers to the sum of organizations, policy instruments, financing mechanisms, [...]

Achieving sustainable development and meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires that there be an effective process of negotiating and implementing sustainable development policies and practices. This paper characterizes an evolving approach that we define as sustainable development diplomacy. Based on an analysis of the history of climate governance as a case study of sustainable development diplomacy and drawing on a diverse range of literatures including international negotiations, global environmental governance, and socio-ecological systems, it identifies seven diagnostics that can be used to evaluate the negotiation and implementation of sustainable development goals. We argue for a needs-based approach that brings together diverse stakeholders to devise flexible solutions that fit the complexity and scale of sustainable development challenges. We illustrate the diagnostic elements with examples from our case study of climate change, as one of the major global sustainable development challenges, but the diagnostics have wider applicability to sustainable development diplomacy and practice more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the global climate agreement which has been the topic during the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties in Paris, France in 2015 to keep global average temperature increase well below 2°C. It states that climate change is a global problem that will affect the individuals and national economies. Also mentioned is the fate of the Paris agreement under the Donald Trump administration.