Jaakko Kuosmanen blogs via EJIL Talk! on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) and the road ahead.

The Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations Research Coordinator, Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen blogs via EJIL Talk! following the summit of world leaders that took place at the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of September. This summit marked an unusually harmonious moment in international politics. In the summit 193 countries acted in concert to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are set to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the beginning of 2016. The new development agenda builds on the MDGs, and its Preamble declares that the SDGs are to complete what the MDGs failed to do. The final MDG report, which was released a week before the summit, shows that while progress has occurred in many spheres of global development, there have also been plenty of uneven achievements and shortfalls. These range from the world’s poorest remaining very unevenly distributed across regions and countries, to targets in improving maternal health not being fully met.

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