After the Summit: Implementing the sustainable development agenda

The UN member states have adopted a new agenda for sustainable development, including a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Have they succeeded in striking a new partnership for protecting and providing global public goods for current and future generations? Have they paved the ground for the implementation of an ambitious agenda that adequately balances the economic, social and ecological dimensions of development in the next decade? UN Assistant Secretary-General Thomas Gass will provide a critical appraisal of the Summit’s outcome and outline what needs to be done to implement the new agenda effectively. He will also discuss which role the UN system can play in the promotion, implementation and monitoring of the new agenda.

Speaker:

• Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)

Comment:

• Imme Scholz, Deputy Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

• Afterwards, we would like to invite you to a reception.
• Please register online until 06.10.2015!
  Registrations will open on 16.09.2015.

The lecture series is co-organised by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (fiw) and the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn.