Publication: El paradigma de la sostenibilidad: Gobernanza global y el modelo europeo de "desarrollo sostenible"
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2017-02
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Grupo de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales (GERI) - UAM
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Nuestra discusión pretende analizar los retos conceptuales que se esconden detrás del paradigma de la sostenibilidad, para entender más adelante en nuestro análisis el compromiso jurídico efectivo de la UE a la hora de implementar las políticas de desarrollo sostenible y las medidas legales que le siguen, que serían difíciles de entender sino se acude a las pautas de desarrollo sostenible que ha lanzado la gobernanza global. Para ello, nuestro prisma analítico tocará los límites del tan mencionado ―en los últimos años―derecho global. Las medidas legislativas de la UE en el campo de la "sostenibilidad" sólo pueden entenderse a la luz del paralelo esfuerzo de determinación de conceptos, categorías y principios básicos que los acuerdos internacionales, en aras del desarrollo de un principio de justicia intergeneracional y desde la óptica del cambio climático, han impulsado. Con independencia de la dificultad que comporta la inexistencia de consenso sobre el significado de la expresión "desarrollo sostenible", partimos de la base que el TFUE y el TUE nos dan las pautas para una interpretación de un modelo conceptual de desarrollo sostenible, como nos lo dio en su día el Informe Brundtland. Podemos afirmar que Europa cuenta hoy con un acquis communautaire de sostenibilidad que ya es innegable.
This article seeks to analyze the conceptual challenges embedded in the global legal system’s sustainability paradigm. Our discussion focuses on the European Union’s legal commitment for the implementation of sustainable development policies. It would be difficult to understand it without paying attention to the global context and the sustainable development guidelines under the so called “global governance”. To do this, we have set up an analytical framework that assesses the parameters of global law —a pivotal reference in legal discourse in recent years. EU legislation within the field of “sustainability” can only be understood in light of the parallel effort, via international agreements, for the definition of concepts, categories and basic principles upon which we can ultimately formulate an intergenerational justice principle. Furthermore, as proposed by the Brundtland Report, despite the difficulties arising from the lack of consensus on the meaning of “sustainable development”, the TFEU and the TEU provide guidelines for a stronger interpretation of a conceptual model of sustainable development. In this way, it is possible to argue that Europe has now an undeniable sustainability acquis communautaire.
This article seeks to analyze the conceptual challenges embedded in the global legal system’s sustainability paradigm. Our discussion focuses on the European Union’s legal commitment for the implementation of sustainable development policies. It would be difficult to understand it without paying attention to the global context and the sustainable development guidelines under the so called “global governance”. To do this, we have set up an analytical framework that assesses the parameters of global law —a pivotal reference in legal discourse in recent years. EU legislation within the field of “sustainability” can only be understood in light of the parallel effort, via international agreements, for the definition of concepts, categories and basic principles upon which we can ultimately formulate an intergenerational justice principle. Furthermore, as proposed by the Brundtland Report, despite the difficulties arising from the lack of consensus on the meaning of “sustainable development”, the TFEU and the TEU provide guidelines for a stronger interpretation of a conceptual model of sustainable development. In this way, it is possible to argue that Europe has now an undeniable sustainability acquis communautaire.
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Sostenibilidad, Derecho global, Cambio climático, Protección ambiental, Gobernanza global, Sustainability, Global law, Climate change, Environmental protection: global governance, ODS, SDG, Agenda 2030
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Sánchez Galera, M.D. (2017). Relaciones Internacionales: Revista académica cuatrimestral de publicación electrónica. Relaciones internacionales, (34), pp. 9-29