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Book of Abstracts 2019 Mexico Conference on Earth System Governance Oaxaca, Mexico, 6-8 November 2019 Version of 5 November 2019 The conference is hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, together with the Earth Sys- tem Governance Project. The 2019 Mexico Conference will be organized around the five analytical lenses structuring the new earth system governance research agenda, as captured in the 2018 Science and Implementation Plan; and a sixth stream focusing on specific issues band challenges relevant to the Latin American region. Contents Architecture and Agency .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Democracy and Power .................................................................................................................................................................... 61 Justice and Allocation ..................................................................................................................................................................... 76 Anticipation and Imagination ....................................................................................................................................................... 100 Adaptiveness and Reflexivity ........................................................................................................................................................ 123 Socio-environmental impacts of economic globalization ............................................................................................................ 143 Conference Co-Hosts: Category: Architecture and Agency Panel ID 3 implementation of the Agenda 2030, therefore, Partnerships for Sustainable Develop- depends on effective and legitimate partner- ships and responsive, representative and partic- ment Goals: The promise and pitfalls ipatory models of inclusion of major groups and Chairs: Ayşem Mert, Sander Chan stakeholders. This paper aims to answer this Discussants: Karin Bäckstrand, Åsa Persson question and discuss how these two process-ori- 23 ented goals are being taken up in existing SDG SDG Partnerships for the Implementation of initiatives, how they are perceived and inter- Agenda 2030: Mapping and comparing inclusion preted by key stakeholders and the ways in and legitimacy across goals which different interpretations influence the Karin Bäckstrand, Ayşem Mert, Faradj Koliev perceived legitimacy and success of SDG initia- Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden tives. In 2019, we are developing a unique data set at Stockholm University on multi-stakeholder The SDGs and Agenda 2030 highlight the crucial partnerships related to three specific SDGs: Goal role of partnerships in global environmental gov- 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), Goal 11 (Sus- ernance for the achievement of seventeen sus- tainable Cities) and Goal 13 (Climate Action). tainable development goals. Partnerships, it is These three SDGs are selected because of their argued, could potentially solve implementation priority to the HLPF process and will be assessed gaps and address democratic deficits in sustain- in 2019. Using this database and preliminary in- ability governance, particularly by including vari- terview data, we systematically analyze and ous stakeholders. In other words, inclusive gov- compare over 1000 multi-stakeholder partner- ernance (Goal 16) and partnerships (Goal 17) are ships and their specific characteristics. expected to go hand in hand and provide the blueprint of a process to achieve Agenda 155 2030. Previous research shows that the specific Joining Forces for Sustainable Development – A ways in which partnership and inclusion are Social Network Analysis of Multi-stakeholder practised have major consequences for the Partnerships for SDG Implementation achievement of the policy goals. Successful and Lisa-Maria Glass1, Simon Ruf2 legitimate partnerships depend on a set of fac- 1Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany. 2Independent tors, such as accountability, transparency, and scholar, Berlin, Germany representative models of inclusion of major stakeholders. However, there is a need for a Multi-stakeholder partnerships have been more focused study on what type of partner- deemed essential for the implementation of the ships have been developed and implemented in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the the specific context of the SDGs? Which groups light of an alleged declining capacity of govern- of SDG partnerships make a meaningful contri- ments to effectively steer societal development bution to the implementation of Agenda 2030, towards a more sustainable future, contribu- and are regarded as legitimate governance tions of non-state actors to the implementation mechanisms by most stakeholders involved? of the 2030 Agenda offer great potential to lev- How can we explain the legitimacy, or the lack erage synergies in the path to sustainable devel- thereof, in these partnerships? The successful opment. Since the SDGs are highly interrelated 2 Category: Architecture and Agency and involve numerous complex trade-offs re- topology of the current multi-stakeholder part- garding social, economic and environmental ob- nership network and on how synergies for SDG jectives, multi-stakeholder partnerships can help achievement are leveraged in practice. to share knowledge, values and resources and 144 thus facilitate SDG achievement. The 2030 Agenda, as part of SDG 17, explicitly calls for the Creating a “Momentum for Change” in the devel- enhancement of these partnerships as im- oping world through transnational climate part- portant means of implementation. While re- nerships Sander Chan1,2, Frank Biermann2, Friederike Eichhorn3 search has focused on identifying interlinkages 1German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Ent- between different SDGs in theory or through wicklungspolitik (DIE)), Bonn, Germany. 2Copernicus Insti- case study approaches, less is known about the tute of Sutainable Development, Utrecht University, emerging architecture of multi-stakeholder part- Utrecht, Netherlands. 3Independent researcher, Leipzig, nerships for the SDGs and the synergies it cre- Germany ates in practice. In this article, we aim at explor- The body of research on transnational partner- ing the underlying structure and actor composi- ships in climate resilient and sustainable devel- tion of 4,086 multi-stakeholder partnerships and opment has grown considerably in recent years, voluntary commitments registered on the Part- contributing to a better understanding of their nerships for the SDGs online platform. Since data role in climate and sustainable governance; their is only available through a browser-based web potential to contribute to mitigation, adaptation interface, we develop an automatic crawling and sustainable development; as well as their ef- software to systematically retrieve the infor- fectiveness. However, there is a considerable mation provided and conduct computer-assisted lack of understanding of such initiatives in the identification and matching of entities to create context of developing countries. Current schol- a structured database of actors with normalized arship has observed considerable underrepre- names. Subsequently, we explore the structured sentation and relative underperformance of de- data by means of a Social Network Analysis veloping country-based transnational partner- (SNA). We investigate what kind of interlinkages ships, but has thus far failed to explain these pat- between different SDGs can be identified in the terns. This paper offers a better understanding multi-stakeholder partnership network and how of transnational climate initiatives in developing these reflect nexus previously identified by re- countries in the context of sustainable develop- search. Additionally, we analyze what type of ac- ment, asking how effective these initiatives are, tors (UN Member States, civil society, local au- and what explains variations of effectiveness. thorities, private sector, scientific and techno- The empirical focus is on a broad sample of initi- logical communities, academia) combine in atives under the “Momentum for Change” cam- which constellation to address which goals. paign led by the secretariat of the UN Frame- Here, we further assess the nature of the links work Convention on Climate Change. Despite a identified between individual SDGs by calculat- global coverage, this campaign uniquely focuses ing the betweenness centrality of different types on climate actions in developing countries with of actors. Finally, we examine the centrality of strong sustainable development co-benefits, in- actors in the network and test for potential dif- cluding women empowerment (“women for re- ferences between public and private stakehold- sults”), poverty alleviation (“urban poor”), and fi- ers’ connections to the overall network. The nance (“finance for climate friendly invest- findings shall provide insights on the structure of ment”). Using a mixed method approach, which transnational governance for the SDGs, the includes a large-n analysis and expert interviews, 3 Category: Architecture and Agency we assess and explain effectiveness; patterns of environmental governance and social science implementation; and transnational leadership of scholarship. We find that the research repre- “Momentum for Change” initiatives. sented in the Earth System Governance-Agency Harvesting Database reflects a multi-disciplinary