Introduction: The Sustainable Development Goals Forum
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Author(s)
Palmer, Eric
Date Issued
March 24, 2015
Abstract
This introduction notes the contributions of various authors to the first issue of the Journal of
Global Ethics 2015 Forum and briefly explains the United Nations process through which the
sustainable development goals have been formulated up to the receipt by the General
Assembly, in August 2014, of the Report of the Open Working Group of the General
Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals (UN A/68/970). The goals are identified as a
confluence of distinct streams of UN work attended to variously by policy experts and
political figures in the past several decades. Sources include, most obviously, the
Millennium Declaration of 2000 and the Millennium Development Goals, but also the 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Human Development
Reports of 1990 forward, and the 1987 Brundtland Report.
Journal
Journal of Global Ethics
Department
Philosophy & Religious Studies
Citation
Palmer, E. (2015). Introduction: The sustainable development goals forum. Journal of Global Ethics 11(1): 3-9. doi: 10.1080/17449626.2015.1021091
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Version of Article
Published article
Original manuscript prior to peer review (preprint)
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DOI
10.1080/17449626.2015.1021091
ISSN
1744-9626
1744-9634
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