The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law (HBK Cambridge Law Handbooks)

In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issues surrounding sustainable development are necessarily impacted by the multifaceted relationship between the Global South and Global North. Confronting the context and challenge of sustainable development, this collection outlines how the international economic system problematizes the attainment of the SDGs. Introducing a novel, cosmopolitan approach, this book offers new ways of understanding sustainable development and suggests potential solutions so that we might finally achieve it.

Jonas Ebbesson is Professor of Environmental Law, former Dean of Faculty of Law (2012–17), and Director of Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre, at Stockholm University. He was member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee 2005–2021, and its Chair 2011–21. He is a member of the Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Ellen Hey is Professor of Public International Law at Erasmus School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and Advisor to the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP), Columbo University. She was a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (2008–2014) and a legal advisor to the government of the Netherlands (1986–1990). Her research interests include international environmental law, law of the sea and international institutional law.