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The United Nations in the Age of Sustainable Development

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Title The United Nations in the Age of Sustainable Development
 
Creator Jeremić, Vuk
Sachs, Jeffrey D.
 
Subject United Nations; sustainable development
 
Description Achieving sustainable development will be the over-riding challenge of this century. Throughout most of history, the challenges of integrating economic development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability were local or regional. In the 21st century, however, they are indisputably global. Only through global cooperation can individual nations overcome the interconnected crises of extreme poverty, economic instability, social inequality, and environmental degradation. In the Age of Sustainable Development, the United Nations will be more essential than ever. As foreseen in the UN Charter, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) is the world’s meeting ground for global cooperation, and UN agencies have specialised knowledge of essential global importance. Yet the UN will have to be organised to succeed in this unprecedented challenge, to ensure much higher levels of accountability, timeliness, efficiency, and political commitment of the Member States and the UN itself. The proposal made at the 2012 Rio+20 Summit for a new High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) led by Heads of State and Government to oversee the UN’s new mandate in sustainable development is, in this regard, a critical starting point.
 
Publisher The Economic and Social Review
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-06-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.esr.ie/article/view/135
 
Source The Economic and Social Review; Vol 45, No 2, Summer (2014): Special Issue on Sustainable Development Solutions; 161–188
0012-9984
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.esr.ie/article/view/135/81
 
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