Mitarbeiter sonstige

Sustainable development in remote regions: integrating local leaders in EU policymaking

Götze, Jacqueline / Anja Márjá Nystø Keskitalo / Elle Merete Omma / Dorothea Wehrmann
Mitarbeiter sonstige (2024)

in: Christine Hackenesch / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch (eds.), The European Union’s global role in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the new leadership, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 40-43

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp11.2024.9
Open access

In times of prolonged and multiple crises, shared visions and established forms of cooperation are increasingly weakened, with serious implications for the pursuit of globally agreed environmental and sustainability goals. Notwithstanding the discursive shift from “development policy” to “international partnerships”, cooperation is and remains the backbone of the European Union (EU)’s development policy. Leaving no one behind (LNOB) is grounded in the United Nations normative standards and a guiding principle in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with regard to political action. The principle relates particularly to marginalised groups impacted by discriminatory policies, practices and laws, which often results from exclusion and weak consideration in policymaking processes. Also, with a view to EU Development Policy, the LNOB principle is intended to guide political action both within and outside the EU. The European Green Deal, however, is a telling example of how the EU risks falling short of this ideal.