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D. Schostok
Agenda 2030 (UN 2015) and the state of NRW was the first state in Germany that
has committed itself to implementing the SDGs.
In the cabinet approval was listed that the sustainable strategy should be developed with the participation of all other state ministries, the state government and in
exchange with stakeholders from civil society, economy, municipalities and science
(MKULNV NRW 2013). As a result, several cooperation and participation elements
were established within the process of developing the sustainability strategy: an
inter-ministerial working group “IMAG Sustainability”, annual sustainability conferences, two public consultation rounds and accompanying projects: a project on the
“Successful Development of Sustainability Strategies” by the Bertelsmann Foundation,
2 participation projects by the Local Agenda 21 NRW
3 and two accompanying
research projects by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.
2.2 Accompanying Research Projects by the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
This paper is based on the partial results of the completed scientific project “Sustainability Strategy for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)—Conceptual Analyses and
Considerations on Designing a Sustainability Strategy NRW from the Science Perspective” (2013–2017)
4 and the on-going scientific project “Experiences of Implementing Statewide Sustainability Strategies—Case Study: Sustainability Strategy
NRW” (2016–2020).
5 Based on the example of North Rhine-Westphalia, the second
research project aims at exploring selected questions that typically arise during the
implementation of a statewide sustainability strategy.
The “TEAM Sustainability” serves as an advisory, discursive accompaniment of
the scientific projects of the Wuppertal Institute addressing the Sustainable Strategy
of NRW and thus indirectly the development and implementation of a sustainability
strategy NRW from the stakeholder perspective by means of open, internal discussions (Wuppertal Institute 2013, 2016).
2 Project description: https://www.bertelsmann-Foundation.de/de/unsere-projekte/abgeschlosseneprojekte/nachhaltigkeitsstrategien-erfolgreich-entwickeln/.
3 Project description: https://www.lag21.de/projekte/details/netzwerk-nachhaltigkeit/.
4 Project description: https://wupperinst.org/en/p/wi/p/s/pd/469/. Funded by the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of North RhineWestphalia.
5 Project description: https://wupperinst.org/en/p/wi/p/s/pd/650/. Funded by the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North RhineWestphalia.
D. Schostok
Agenda 2030 (UN 2015) and the state of NRW was the first state in Germany that
has committed itself to implementing the SDGs.
In the cabinet approval was listed that the sustainable strategy should be developed with the participation of all other state ministries, the state government and in
exchange with stakeholders from civil society, economy, municipalities and science
(MKULNV NRW 2013). As a result, several cooperation and participation elements
were established within the process of developing the sustainability strategy: an
inter-ministerial working group “IMAG Sustainability”, annual sustainability conferences, two public consultation rounds and accompanying projects: a project on the
“Successful Development of Sustainability Strategies” by the Bertelsmann Foundation,
2 participation projects by the Local Agenda 21 NRW
3 and two accompanying
research projects by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.
2.2 Accompanying Research Projects by the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
This paper is based on the partial results of the completed scientific project “Sustainability Strategy for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)—Conceptual Analyses and
Considerations on Designing a Sustainability Strategy NRW from the Science Perspective” (2013–2017)
4 and the on-going scientific project “Experiences of Implementing Statewide Sustainability Strategies—Case Study: Sustainability Strategy
NRW” (2016–2020).
5 Based on the example of North Rhine-Westphalia, the second
research project aims at exploring selected questions that typically arise during the
implementation of a statewide sustainability strategy.
The “TEAM Sustainability” serves as an advisory, discursive accompaniment of
the scientific projects of the Wuppertal Institute addressing the Sustainable Strategy
of NRW and thus indirectly the development and implementation of a sustainability
strategy NRW from the stakeholder perspective by means of open, internal discussions (Wuppertal Institute 2013, 2016).
2 Project description: https://www.bertelsmann-Foundation.de/de/unsere-projekte/abgeschlosseneprojekte/nachhaltigkeitsstrategien-erfolgreich-entwickeln/.
3 Project description: https://www.lag21.de/projekte/details/netzwerk-nachhaltigkeit/.
4 Project description: https://wupperinst.org/en/p/wi/p/s/pd/469/. Funded by the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of North RhineWestphalia.
5 Project description: https://wupperinst.org/en/p/wi/p/s/pd/650/. Funded by the Ministry for Environment, Agriculture, Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North RhineWestphalia.