The making of the Sustainable Development Goals - an insider’s perspective
How were the SDGs created? And how were 193 world leaders able to agree on such a comprehensive set of goals and targets? Meet Norway's lead negotiator in the process that lead to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Marianne Loe
Minister Counsellor
Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations in New York
Why do they look the way they do? And why do we have 17 goals, not 10 or 15 - or 20? Had it not been easier to just continue with an updated version of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Some of the SDGs look more like wishful thinking than measurable targets - is that a sign of the limits of diplomacy? Should the design of the global goals rather have been left to experts?
We will address some of these questions through an insiders’ reflections on how the SDGs came about, how 193 countries could agree, how non-state actors had their say in the process and what were the tricky questions along the way. To what extent does the process of designing the goals matter for their implementation? And how can research contribute to achieving them?
Marianne Loe is a Norwegian diplomat, currently serving as Minister Counsellor at Norway’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, primarily covering sustainable development issues. Until September 2015 Marianne served as Norway’s Ambassador and lead negotiator in the process that developed the 2030 Agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals. She has been in the Norwegian Foreign Service for more than 20 years and has also worked for the UN, for Non-Governmental Organizations and for news media.
The session will be moderated by Professor Edvard Hviding.
This keynote addess is free and open to the public.
