ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the notion of sustainability has manifested itself in the international policy agenda in the so-called “post-2015” context. It provides a case study not of a particular place, but of a space and explores the role of sustainability within the development of a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals. The chapter presents the intersection of sustainability and gender within the post-2015 processes to define a new global framework for sustainable development —the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gender has emerged as an alternative way of understanding how men and women are positioned in society, underscoring that the roles men and women are expected to fulfill are socially constructed. In the contemporary context, much of the environmental discourse is either explicitly or implicitly focused on climate change and climate change adaptation. Millennium Development Goals focuses on “Ensuring Environmental Sustainability”; it contains a number of elements and has a range of aims, including reducing odiversity loss.
