Episode 3: The Big Year: The Preparatory Process - from the book Negotiating the SDGs

This is the third podcast is from the book Negotiating the SustainableDevelopment Goals: A transformational agenda for an insecure world By FelixDodds, Ambassador David Donoghue and Jimena Leiva Roesch "The Big Year: The Preparatory Process". The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of 17 goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, that were agreed upon by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the 15-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development of the SDGs from the beginning, this book offers an insider view of the process and a unique entry into what will be seen as one of the most significant negotiations and global policy agendas of the twenty-first century. What does the book address? The book reviews how the SDGs were developed, what happened in key meetings and how this transformational agenda, which took more than three years to neg...