Sustainable Development Solutions Network

World Health Assembly Backs Calls to Strengthen Clean Air SDGs

Shazia Z. Rafi
• May 28, 2015

Negotiations are entering the last stages of formulating the Sustainable Development Goals. For over a year, governments, the United Nations system, nongovernment organizations and parliamentarians have been engaged in negotiations on the next set of development goals, called SDGs,…

Categories: Climate Change, SDGs, UN Agencies

Will Statisticians Get the Last Word on the UN’s New Development Goals?

Bill Orme
• March 9, 2015

There are three things you need to know about the negotiations over the United Nations’ next set of global development goals, which will be adopted by world leaders at the General Assembly this September and remain in effect for…

Categories: SDGs

Can Good Governance Become a Global Development Goal?

Bill Orme
• October 28, 2014

British Prime Minister David Cameron had two clear messages when he spoke at a post-2015 global development goals forum on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last month. The first was his emphatic view that the General…