The path to Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals The latest meeting of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Working Group (SDG OWG) met for three days last week. For those who are not aware the SDG OWG is one of the positive outcomes from the Rio+20 Conference last year. It put sustainable development at the center of the post 2015 development goals which will be agreed in late 2015. Initially it had a troubled birth because 70 countries wanted the 30 seats. This in the end caused some very interesting pairing up breaking down traditional groupings. The most interesting ones I think are the following: · USA/Canada/Israel · Cyprus/Singapore/UEA · India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka · Iran/Japan/Nepal · Denmark/Ireland/Norway · Italy/Spain/Turkey This is not to mention many of the others are paired within a geographical region. This may mean that the traditional groupsings of the European Union and G77 may play less a role as