Comments on the Secretary Generals Synthesis Report
I had hoped to get to this earlier but I was in New York at UN retreat meetings on the SDGs and EcoSoc. Clustering So in all but name the Secretary General has come up with a way of grouping the goals into six areas: dignity, people, planet, prosperity, justice and partnership. Although he doesn’t go as far as to say its clustering you do feel there have been a couple of paras taken out which probably did say that. Around para 6 he introduces the six elements as an idea and then goes on to seven areas that need to be implemented to address the new agenda without telling us what the six are we have to read further to find out. What was very good to see was that the Secretary General did NOT try and reduce the goals and targets that governments had come to an agreement on in the SDG OWG. The UK push for less goals and targets is now dead on arrival and I would hope the UK now starts to play a much more constructive role than they have over the last 3 years. Governance It ...