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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development
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How to build sustainable development goals: integrating human development and environmental sustainability in a new global agenda

Publication Year: 2013 Publisher: ODI, UNDP

Background

Combining human development and environmental objectives is firmly on the agenda for a new set of global priorities after 2015. The High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons endorsed this approach in the Monrovia communiqué, outlining a vision for a new development agenda that is “people centred and planet sensitive”.

The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals is driven by the Rio+20 conclusions, which defined the priorities for the future as:

Poverty eradication, changing unsustainable and promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social development.