Goals and targets – June session – Post 2015
Held by Ambassador Marianne Loe
• Norway welcomes your proposal to have a short introduction to the
section on goals and targets. It should primarily explain the nature of
the goals - including that they are global and universal, integrated and
aspirational.
• We also welcome having a para on the indicators. But it should avoid
describing the process that will take place over the next months, as this
document will live on for 15 years. And we should avoid words like
"finalised" - indicators should not be cut in stone
The proposal of the OWG was not perfect, and we agree with Peru that we
must not make perfect the enemy of good.
But that should not keep us from correcting some of the obvious imperfections
of the proposal before we ask our HoS/G to sign on to it.
We cannot ask our leaders to commit to unfinished targets such as those
containing "x"s, nor can we ask them to sign on to targets that fall short of
existing agreements and commitments.
We hence welcome the retention of your proposal to make some small
revisions to 21 of the targets to this effect. We believe you have
demonstrated that it is possible to improve the quality of targets without
reopening negotiations or rocking the balance of the OWG proposal.
We hope that we together may be able to ensure the best possible technical
quality of the final outcome document to be adopted by our leaders in
September.
