Jonas Ebbesson, Professor in Environmental Law and Director of the Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre at Stockholm University, is one of the editors of The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law (CUP 2022). He was presenting the book and the general conclusions regarding the Sustainable Development Goals and international law and institutions.

Book description by CUP:

“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.”