Governing for Sustainability: A Conversation with Scott Schang and John Dernbach

Governing for Sustainability: A Conversation with Scott Schang and John Dernbach

Author: Environmental Law Institute December 6, 2023 Duration: 29:00

The United Nation’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 integrated goals that address global challenges, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, the environment, peace and justice. Advancing the SDGs in the US would help to make the US a better place for all. In this episode, host Sarah Backer is joined by editors John Dernbach and Scott Schang to discuss their ELI Press-published book, Governing for Sustainability. The book provides a detailed set of recommendations for federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, as well as the private sector and civil society organized around the SDGs. Scott and John also discuss how the SDGs offer the US a comprehensive framework to build a more prosperous, equitable, resilient, healthy – in other words, sustainable – society.

Relevant Resources:
John Dernbach and Scott Schang, Governing for Sustainability Introduction 

Goldman Sachs, The Us Inflation Reduction Act Is Driving Clean-energy Investment One Year In 

The Nature Conservancy, Family Forest Carbon Program 

The Washington Post, ‘Greenhushing’: Why some companies quietly hide their climate pledges 

Harper Collins Publishers, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet 

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