Introduction: The 2030 Agenda.
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Palmer, Eric
Date Issued
December 8, 2015
Abstract
This introduction notes the contributions of authors to the second (final) issue of the Journal of
Global Ethics 2015 Sustainable Development Goals Forum. It briefly explains the process
through which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have developed from their
receipt in 2014 to their passage in September 2015 by the UN General Assembly, and it
considers their development in prospect. The Millennium Development Goals, which
spanned 1990–2015, present a case study that reveals the changeability of such long-term
multilateral commitments. They were enmeshed in overlapping and inconsistent national
and intergovernmental commitments reaching from 1995 to 2005, and the text of those
goals also evolved, stabilizing for the last time in 2007. The SDGs and attendant
commitments should be expected to evolve similarly over their 15-year run. This presents a
concern, for among the three committees established by the UN to create the goals, the two
committees charged with public consultation were retired as planned in 2014. The process
evident thereafter has displayed a shift towards a strategy of enrolling broad public
endorsement that leaves such consultation and specific responsibility to those consulted in
doubt. This bodes ill for public deliberation on the goals and for public accountability as the
agenda proceeds towards 2030.
Journal
Journal of Global Ethics
Department
Philosophy & Religious Studies
Citation
Palmer, E. (2015). Introduction: The 2030 Agenda. Journal of Global Ethics 11(3): 262-269. doi:10.1080/17449626.2015.1119928
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
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DOI
10.1080/17449626.2015.1119928
ISSN
1744-9626
1744-9634
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