Eight Months until New Development Goals Are Agreed. Then What? (The Guardian)

From the article:

This is a big year for global gatherings on existential topics. There’s the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons planned for New York, then in September, still at the United Nations headquarters, a new set of global development goals will be agreed, and finally the 21st UN Climate Change conference will be held in Paris late in the year.

The outlook for these three conferences is mixed. But at least two of them have an obvious path towards world-changing impact. The summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda is the odd one out. The politics of writing the goals appears to have ensured the politics of using them has been relegated to a distant afterthought. And unless the UN secretary general and the world’s governments agree on what the goals are actually designed to accomplish, the hope that they’ll make a difference is misguided.

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