Taxonomies of sustainable investment and existing decision support approaches of EIA, SEA and CBA – a silver bullet for sustainable development? A response to Dusík and Bond

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI:10.1080/14615517.2022.2033926

T. Fischer

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ABSTRACT In this response to Dusík and Bond, I reflect on what taxonomies of sustainable investment will need to be able to deliver in order to add value to our existing efforts towards making development more environmentally sustainable. What support taxonomies should provide for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of policies, plans and programmes and environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects, as well as for cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of policies, plans, programmes and projects is discussed. In this context, I focus on the consideration of climate change and biodiversity as important examples. Exploring a (typical) real-life road infrastructure planning case, I depict some of the existing challenges for SEA and EIA as well as CBA. I conclude that if the use of taxonomies leads to CBA which is not corrupted by powerful (industry) interests and which can result in realistic estimations of costs and benefits as well as to SEA and EIA applications whose results that are not traded-off with alleged economic advantages, they would indeed be highly beneficial.

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可持续投资的分类和现有的EIA、SEA和CBA决策支持方法——可持续发展的银弹？对Dusík和Bond的回应

在对Dusík和Bond的回应中，我反思了可持续投资的哪些分类需要能够提供，以便为我们现有的努力增加价值，使发展更加环境可持续。讨论了分类法应如何支持政策、计划和方案的策略性环境评估和项目的环境影响评估，以及政策、计划、方案和项目的成本效益分析。在此背景下，我将重点考虑气候变化和生物多样性作为重要例子。通过一个(典型的)现实生活中的道路基础设施规划案例，我描述了环评和环评以及CBA面临的一些挑战。我的结论是，如果分类法的使用导致CBA不被强大的(行业)利益所腐化，并且可以导致对成本和收益的现实估计，以及SEA和EIA应用的结果不与所谓的经济优势相权衡，那么它们确实是非常有益的。

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