SHAPE - Governance Analyses for Transformation to Sustainability
Dr. Elmar Kriegler, the project leader, explains the components of the SHAPE Modelling Protocol during the consortium’s launching workshop in November 2019 in Potsdam, Germany.
Governance Analyses for Transformation to Sustainability – Sustainable Development Pathways Achieving Human Well-being while Safeguarding the Climate and Planet Earth (SHAPE)
The project is implemented by the Program “Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability” of the German Development Institute. It is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) (DLR, No. 01LS19XXY) with co-funding from the European Union (No. 776608). It runs from 2019 until 2022.
To implement the project, DIE collaborates with the following partners: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Utrect University (UU), Stockholm Resilience Center of the Stockholm University (SU), Norwegien University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS).
SHAPE will develop and analyse Sustainable Development Pathways (SDPs) that achieve the SDGs in 2030 and maintain sustainable development to reach the Paris climate goals until 2100. The focus of the project evolves around the crucial interactions between climate action and other SDGs, the required system transformations to overcome trade-offs and enhance synergies and the effective means of governance facilitating the deep transformations required to climate action and other SDGs.
For the complete information about the project, visit the DIE project website here or the project website here
As a member of the project, I contribute by advancing the governance aspects of the SDPs. I propose ways to understand how governance modes, structures and institutions should be designed for them to support sustainable development. For more information about my insights, please check the following (project) papers:
Hernandez, A.M. (Forthcoming 2021) Closing the Gaps for the “Purposive” New Normal – Integrative Perspectives on the Governance of the Transformation to Sustainability. DIE Discussion Paper Series.
Hernandez, A.M. (Forthcoming 2021) The Phases of Transformation to Sustainability.
Hernandez, A.M. & Misalucha-Willoughy, C. (2020) Securitization of Climate and Environmental Protection in China’s New Normal (in: Decision-Making in Public Policy & the Social Good eJournal).
Hernandez, A.M. (2020) The Political Economy of Transformation to Sustainability -Shaping Futures through Narratives on Transformation Processes. Paper submitted for the ISA 2020 Annual Convention, March 25-28, 2020, Honolulu Junior Scholar Symposia Group/Panel: IPE- The Political Economy of Development.