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A strong sustainability approach to development trajectories

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  • Antoine GODIN
  • Oskar LECUYER
  • Stéphanie LEYRONAS

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Sustainable development trajectories are at the heart of many policy debates: CDN and Net Zero trajectories, just transition, climate justice, biodiversity inclusion, etc. These trajectories mostly propose a nexus approach combining climate, ecological, social, technological, economic and political aspects. In this paper, we propose a suite of three guiding principle, inspired by a strong sustainability approach, to construct sustainable trajectories: (i) the a priori refutation of substitutability, (ii) the need to construct multidimensional diagnostics and analyses highlighting synergies and tensions between different indicators, and (iii) the recognition of the importance of building a social construct on the desirable “good condition” and on the trajectories to reach it. We then show how these principles can be applied in different disciplines and help policymakers in constructing development trajectories.

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  • Antoine GODIN & Oskar LECUYER & Stéphanie LEYRONAS, 2022. "A strong sustainability approach to development trajectories," Working Paper fbf0719b-03d9-40ec-9d44-f, Agence française de développement.
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