European Union Paper comes out on the SDGs
For those who have not been involved with the Sustainable Development Goals Open Working Group let me just explain a little about how it operates. The Rio+20 Conference agreed that: "An open working group shall be constituted no later than the opening of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly and shall comprise of thirty representatives, nominated by Member States through the five UN regional groups with the aim of achieving fair, equitable and balanced geographic representation." Governments could not agree on the 30 members as 70 countries applied to join and so some buddy system was created for those 30 seats. It created some very interesting buddies: India / Pakistan / Sri Lanka China / Indonesia / Kazakhstan Cyprus / Singapore / United Arab Emirates Bangladesh / Republic of Korea / Saudi Arabia Iran (Islamic Republic of) / Japan / Nepal Australia/Netherlands/United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Canada / Israel / United States ...