The UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) launched an e-magazine, ‘The 2015 Post,' providing updates on both the UN-led process to define the post-2015 development agenda, and the intergovernmental processes to follow up on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
28 May 2013: The UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) launched an e-magazine, titled ‘The 2015 Post,’ providing updates on both the UN-led process to define the post-2015 development agenda, and the intergovernmental processes to follow up on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20).
The inaugural issue includes updates on all of the work streams, including regional consultations, the MY World survey, the intergovernmental committee on a sustainable development financing strategy, and the UN Global Compact’s (UNGC) contributions.
On the regional consultations, the newsletter notes that the Regional Commissions are expected to release a joint publication in the first half of 2013, titled ‘Beyond 2015: The Future United Nations Development Agenda –Regional Perspectives.’ On the MY World survey, it reports that the UN will hold an event in September 2013 to share the outcomes of the mobile, online and offline surveys, from which disaggregated data is being consolidated and posted at data.myworld.2015.org. On the sustainable development financing strategy, the newsletter says that a committee of 30 experts nominated by regional groups is requested to update the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on its work before the beginning of UNGA 68, and to conclude its work in 2014.
On private sector engagement in the post-2015 development agenda, NGLS reports that Global Compact LEAD developed a task force to review: what themes a new set of global sustainable development objectives should contain; how they could be shaped as goals and targets; and how business can best be involved. In addition, UNGC Local Networks conducted consultations at the national and regional levels, and the UNGC’s annual Implementation Survey collected feedback on business’ role in development. The UNGC also appointed a Special Advisor on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and Business Ethics – Klaus Leisinger, Chairman of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development – and a Special Advisor on Sustainable Development – Brice Lalonde, former Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Coordinator of Rio+20.
Other features of ‘The 2015 Post’ include civil society messages from events in Bonn, Bali, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the latest report from the Civil Society Reflection Group, and an interview with Corinne Woods, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign. [NGLS Press Release] [Publication: The 2015 Post, Issue 1]