UN Member States and civil society provided their reactions to the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, at the sixth session of intergovernmental negotiations in the process.
The zero draft was issued by Co-Facilitators David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland, and Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya, on 2 June.
25 June 2015: UN Member States and civil society provided their reactions to the zero draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, at the sixth session of intergovernmental negotiations in the process. The zero draft was issued by Co-Facilitators David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland, and Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya, on 2 June.
In its analysis of the meeting, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) noted that at times during the four-day meeting it appeared as though battle lines were being drawn, with particularly divisive issues being: common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR), people under foreign occupation, the status of the preamble, the report of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), technical revision of the targets, and means of implementation (MOI). But the differences may not be insurmountable, “if we don’t overcomplicate the process,” according to Co-Facilitator Kamau.
Concluding the sixth session, the Co-Facilitators said they would distill what they heard and produce a final zero draft within a couple of weeks, ahead of the last, two-week leg of the negotiation process, which will begin on 20 July 2015.
The sixth session in the intergovernmental negotiation process on the post-2015 development agenda took place from 22-25 June 2015, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. [IISD RS Meeting Coverage] [IISD RS Story on Zero Draft] [IISD RS Story on Opening Statements at Sixth Session]