The next development agenda

The United Nations High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda recently delivered its report to the UN Secretary General. "A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development" gives a clear and compelling call for five transformations in development. It calls on all countries to:

Leave no one behind, ensuring that no person, regardless of ethnicity, gender, geography, disability, race or other status is denied universal human rights and basic economic opportunities;

Put sustainable development at the core, making a rapid shift to more sustainable consumption and production patterns; and mobilizing social, economic, and environmental action to eradicate poverty irreversibly;