Post2015.org – what comes after the MDGs?
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Bali background papers on Sustainable Development: “Financing for development and climate change”, and “Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries”
The Sustainable Development Solutions Paper, Development and Climate Finance, written by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Guido Schmidt-Traub as a background paper for the Bali HLP meeting describes the roles of public and private finance in the post-2015 development agenda. The authors propose eligibility and graduation criteria for international public finance, and propose ways in which … Continue reading
Summary of the Leadership Meeting on Environmental Sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The Global Thematic Consultation on Environmental Sustainability in the post 2015 Development agenda held its Leadership Meeting in Costa Rica, on March 18-19th. Co-convened by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and co-hosted by the Governments of Costa Rica and France, it was sought how to integrate environmental sustainability in any … Continue reading
Up and running: The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
The Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is now officially up and running, in accordance with this recent UN General Assembly draft decision. This document confirms the OWG’s diverse country membership, comprising thirty official places, many of which are shared by two to three different states. The OWG will hold its first meeting … Continue reading
Tracking proposals on future development goals
Please note – an updated table of proposals on future development goals, with additional functionality, is now available at http://tracker.post2015.org —–Original post written by Gina Bergh, a researcher at the Overseas Development Institute —- Just when we thought they had reached top speed, debates on the post-2015 development agenda continue to intensify – with the … Continue reading
Why one framework with a single set of universal goals will be crucial for sustainable development Post 2015
In this new blog, Simon Hoiberg Olsen of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies considers the integration of environment and development agendas post-2015. “The process to elaborate sustainable development goals (SDGs) may be one of the most notable results of the Rio+20 conference. It provides an opportunity to incorporate lessons from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), devising a … Continue reading
Jeffrey Sachs talks post-2015
Written by Gina Bergh, a researcher at the Overseas Development Institute. Jeffrey Sachs of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network fame was in London this week to give his perspective on what future development goals should come after the MDGs. Interesting that this confirmed what was already clear at civil society consultations when the UN High … Continue reading
Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
This new UNDP publication is a collection of evidence-based papers by scholars and practitioners that explore the interconnections between gender equality and sustainable development across a range of sectors and global development issues such as energy, health, education, food security, climate change, human rights, consumption and production patterns, and urbanization. The publication provides evidence and recommendations … Continue reading
Post-2015: Possible solutions to the MDG/SDG puzzle
In her latest blog, Dr Claire Melamed, Head of ODI’s Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme outlines six possible post-2015 MDG/SDG scenarios: Read ‘Post-2015: Possible solutions to the MDG/SDG puzzle’ in full.
Two for One Deal on Development Goals
“One of the Rio Summit’s all-to-few accomplishments was language in the outcome declaration about an intergovernmental process to develop Sustainable Development Goals. An “open working group” of 30 nations nominated by the five regional UN groups will come up with a list by September 2013. We’ve now got the SDG open working group and the … Continue reading
Sustainable Development Goals: what just happened?
“Question: if the General Assembly sets up its own working group on SDGs this September, to report back to its 2013 session, then where exactly does that leave the Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda (see this earlier GD post), covering exactly the same agenda and working over exactly the same timescale?” New blog post … Continue reading
