UNITED NATIONS
United Nations
Association of Slovenia
SUMMER SCHOOL
14 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015
WHAT KIND OF FUTURE WILL 2015 BRING?
The international landscape of 2015 is marked by the crucial multilateral processes. Since the new development landscape is being discussed, this year is also vital for international development cooperation. In March, world leaders met at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan. At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia in July, means of implementation of the future development goals were discussed. New set of development goals, called Sustainable Development Goals will be adopted at the UN Summit to Adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda in New York in September. Climate change agenda will be addressed at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference in December.
In the light of those processes, the European Union decided to mark 2015 as the European Year for Development 2015 with the aim to promote debate about international development cooperation. International agreements made this year, especially the post-2015 development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, will address global challenges for the next 15 years.
WHERE IS THE FUTURE GOING TO BE DISCUSSED?
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Sustainable
Development
Goals
FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT
Between 13 and 16 July 2015 the Third International Conference on Financing for Development was held in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Its scope was also set out in General Assembly's resolutions and it was focused on assessing the progress made in the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration and identifying obstacles and constraints encountered in the achievement of the goals and objectives agreed therein, as well as actions and initiatives to overcome these constraints, addressing new and emerging issues, including in the context of the recent multilateral efforts to promote international development cooperation and reinvigorating and strengthening the financing for development follow-up process.
The Conference gathered high-level political representatives, including Heads of State and Government, and Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, as well as all relevant institutional stakeholders, non-governmental organizations and business sector entities. The Conference resulted in anegotiated outcome which provides a new global framework for financing sustainable development that aligns all financing flows and policies with economic, social and environmental priorities and also a comprehensive set of policy actions by Member States, with a package of over 100 concrete measures that draw upon all sources of finance, technology, innovation, trade and data in order to support mobilization of the means for a global transformation to sustainable development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.