Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Resolution »Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development« with effect from 1 January 2016 enshrines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including 169 targets and offers a conceptual, normative answer to the global fluid pattern of economic transformation, namely: globalisation.

the SDGs are entering into the multileveled legal order along different horizontal and vertical paths. The significance of the SDGs for the application of the law in the context of regulations of the international level within the UN and autonomous International Organisations is clearly visible. On the vertical level, regional cooperation such as the EU, ASEAN, CARICOM, integrate the SDGs in different legal agreements, with similar approaches also visible at national and transnational level.

Winfried Huck is Professor for International and European Economic Law at the Brunswick European Law School (BELS) of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is also, inter alia, Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge.