Sustainable Development Goals – A useful outcome from Rio+20? (PDF 119kb)
By Alex Evans and David Steven
New York University, Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
From 24-25 January in New York, a 2 day meeting on the idea of ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ will begin, bringing together numerous countries’ Permanent Representatives to the United Nations plus a whole host of environment and development experts from capitals.
The idea of ‘SDGs’ has acquired a lot of political momentum in recent months. What SDGs would cover, or how would they work? Would they just run from now to 2015, alongside the existing MDGs, and cover a few ‘gaps’ that were missed out in the MDGs – like access to energy? Or would they in fact take over from the MDGs after 2015, thus becoming the new organising framework for global development policy?
This short CIC briefing paper (pdf) discusses where we are on the SDGs agenda – and how it might usefully pan out from here. It suggests that policymakers should think twice before regarding SDGs as an “easy win” from Rio (20 - 22 June 2012) and that policymakers should play a long game at this stage rather than going for quick wins that could all too easily backfire.
New York University, Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
From 24-25 January in New York, a 2 day meeting on the idea of ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’ will begin, bringing together numerous countries’ Permanent Representatives to the United Nations plus a whole host of environment and development experts from capitals.
The idea of ‘SDGs’ has acquired a lot of political momentum in recent months. What SDGs would cover, or how would they work? Would they just run from now to 2015, alongside the existing MDGs, and cover a few ‘gaps’ that were missed out in the MDGs – like access to energy? Or would they in fact take over from the MDGs after 2015, thus becoming the new organising framework for global development policy?
This short CIC briefing paper (pdf) discusses where we are on the SDGs agenda – and how it might usefully pan out from here. It suggests that policymakers should think twice before regarding SDGs as an “easy win” from Rio (20 - 22 June 2012) and that policymakers should play a long game at this stage rather than going for quick wins that could all too easily backfire.
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- January 2012
- Global Dashboard (http://www.globaldashboard.org/)
- 30.01.2012 15:29 | Contributed by: ADG Team
- http://www.globaldashboard.org/wp-content/uploads/SDGs-briefing1.pdf
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