United Nations Post-2015 Summit

The United Nations summit for the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda will be held from 25 to 27 September 2015, which is the target date for realizing the SDGs, in New York and convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

The President of the General Assembly has appointed two co-facilitators to lead those informal consultations. The process of arriving at the Post-2015 Development Agenda is Member State-led with broad participation from Major Groups and other civil society stakeholders.

There has been numerous inputs to the agenda, notably a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an open working group of the General Assembly, the report of an intergovernmental committee of experts on sustainable development financing, GA dialogues on technology facilitation and many others.

The General Assembly called upon the Secretary-General to synthesize the full range of inputs and to present a synthesis report before the end of 2014 as a contribution to the intergovernmental negotiations in the lead up to the Summit.

The United Nations has played a facilitating role in the global conversation on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and supported broad consultations. It also has the responsibility of supporting Member States by providing evidence-based inputs, analytical thinking and field experience.

The final draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to Adopt the Post-2015 Developemnt Agenda has been released in July 2015. SLoCaT has been tracking the transport relevance of the outcome document and the SDGs. For more information, please go to here. 

For more information, please see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015