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Private Sector Approach to Governing Global Challenges (STG-MA-ECM-TNC)

STG-MA-ECM-TNC

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According to the United Nations, “The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The Goals interconnect, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030”.  https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ 

Given their enormity and complexity, the SDGs require collaborative endeavours amongst actors – such as governments, multinational institutions, civil society, and businesses – to achieve. Notwithstanding, businesses are being increasingly recognised as legitimate development actors. As such, the SDGs present an arena for contestations, struggles, and risks, as well as opportunities for different actors. Businesses, especially in the global south, hold both significant opportunities if creatively harnessed and enormous risks if not addressed. 

Thus, SDGs are very critical global goals in which students of transnational governance should be fully immersed, and this module offers a chance to explore this through the private sector angle, which will complement other perspectives applied by the overall Masters programme.

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