Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures.

ABSTRACT: While increasing hopes are being attached to deliberate societal transformative change to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, questions remain about whether and whereby such profound systemic change can be governed. This paper analyses how transformative changes are intended to be encouraged and achieved, where and when. The paper explores critical drivers and how they relate to leverage points at different places in the societal systems. The paper builds on a comprehensive sense-making analysis of scholarly literature, policy documents, including countries' contributions to the Paris Agreement and national reviews of progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, international news media and lay focus group discussions on five conti

SUBMITTER: Linner BO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8075710 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature