In a new report released by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, Barbara Adams and Kathryn Tobin give their take on the post-2015 process and suggest how various actors can intervene to shape proposed new goals. The Sustainable Development Goals will determine the global development agenda for years to come. They will affect not only the UN’s Secretariat, funds and programmes but each member state as well as non-governmental organizations and the private sector around the world. If processes converge to create a universial and effective agenda, which holds governments and others to account, the UN would reassert itself for addressing the many conflicts that cannot be resolved by individual countries. Such an accomplishment would have implications for a whole spectrum of issues, and it is not too late for the United Nations, member states, and international civil society to make this happen.

First published by Global Policy Forum