Comments on the new Post 2015 text bis
Well who would have expected me to be writing another blog about another final text? Governments return at 11am Sunday to try and finish the negotiations on the Post 2015 Development Agenda. I myself left on Friday assuming it would finish then and went to see Mission Impossible last night. The best MI film ever!!!! If the text is finished today, tomorrow, next week then this is a great distressing event to go to. The title has changed from just transforming our World to Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is great that the term doesn’t include poverty eradication but accepts it as part of sustainable development. So much better and I will talk more about this when we have a final final text. The new preamble is much better than the longer version and doesn’t try to cluster the goals which were looking like a laundry list and incoherent. This marks a clear defeat for the UK and its attempt for a small number of goals. The introduction...