In 2015, governments negotiated four major global agreements in less than ten months.
Guest blog: Lenni Montiel: Senior UN Development Leader (Ret.) | Former UN Assistant Secretary-General |UNDP Resident Representative | Governance, Public Policy & Multilateral Diplomacy | Leadership Advisor & Trainer | Chevening Scholar. Lenni writes on LinkedIn about the UN and international development. Originally published here. In 2015, governments negotiated four major global agreements in less than ten months. Most people remember the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet the SDGs were only one piece of a much larger architectural shift. Look at the timeline of that single year: ๐ In March: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. ๐ In July: the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development. ๐ In September: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Goals and 169 targets. ๐ In December: the Paris Agreement on climate change. Taken together, these agreements reflected how profoundly development thinking had evolved ove...