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This article provides information about the globalisation and future of sustainable development:
Globalisation has created new challenges in the march towards what is implied in the notion of sustainable development. Martin Khor comments that, the process of Globalisation linked to liberalisation has gained so much force that it has undermined, and is undermining, the sustainable development agenda.
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Commerce and the perceived need to remain competitive in a global market, and to pamper and cater to the demands of companies and the rich have become the top priority of governments in the North and some in the South. The environment, welfare of the poor, global partnership have all been dislodged and sacrificed in this wave of free market mania.
The process of globalisation is seen as an important reason for the failure of the Johannesburg Summit. In its editorial, The Hindu remarks that “an important reason for the Johannesburg fiasco is that the global willingness to collectively deal with the problems of the environment gradually evaporated during the past decade of accelerated globalisation”.
The concept of sustainable development and to understand the complexities and intricacies involved in establishing liaison between the crisis of nature and crisis of justice can be understood in the context of challenges faced by globalisation and politics of sustainable development. Given the context of differential level of socio-economic development, cultural specificities, political positions of various nation-states in the North and the South, and challenges created by the forces of globalisation, the above criticisms also underline the practical difficulties in operationalising the concept in space and time. Yet, the concept of “sustainable development” can be seen to dominate the development-discourse and continues to enlarge a debate across the national frontiers.