Comments on: Sustainable Development Goals: easy win or slippery slope? http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=8551 duncan green poverty to power oxfam development Wed, 22 May 2013 17:17:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Michelle http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=8551&cpage=1#comment-106685 Michelle Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:36:26 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=8551#comment-106685 Hi Duncan I'm still thinking my way through the SDGs, although my gut feel is: 1) more closely aligning development and environmental issues will reap benefits for both agendas, and 2) I'm not sure the Rio Summit can get its ducks in a row in time, and it would be disappointing if this idea fizzles out or is discredited. You're usually really good at referencing your sources, so I just wanted to point out that the graph you've included here is courtesy of the excellent XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1007/. Hi Duncan

I’m still thinking my way through the SDGs, although my gut feel is: 1) more closely aligning development and environmental issues will reap benefits for both agendas, and 2) I’m not sure the Rio Summit can get its ducks in a row in time, and it would be disappointing if this idea fizzles out or is discredited.

You’re usually really good at referencing your sources, so I just wanted to point out that the graph you’ve included here is courtesy of the excellent XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1007/.

]]> By: Pauline Rose http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=8551&cpage=1#comment-106642 Pauline Rose Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:56:25 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=8551#comment-106642 Many thanks for raising this debate. It seems that Rio+20 could now becoming the launchpad for the post-2015 goals. It is good to get this debate going so we don't end up in vacuum in 2015 of not having met the MDGs, but with nothing to follow-up. But linking it with Rio+20 which was not set up for this purpose raises a danger that the debate on future goals could be constrained by the remit of Rio+20. Looking at the Rio+20 website, there is extremely little on education, while education has rightly been a key part of the MDGs. I am not sure why this is, but would very much hope that any post-2015 debate would continue to see the importance of education in transforming lives and societies. We are discussing some of these issues on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report blog: http://efareport.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-future-we-want-post-2015-sustainable-development-goals/ Many thanks for raising this debate. It seems that Rio+20 could now becoming the launchpad for the post-2015 goals. It is good to get this debate going so we don’t end up in vacuum in 2015 of not having met the MDGs, but with nothing to follow-up. But linking it with Rio+20 which was not set up for this purpose raises a danger that the debate on future goals could be constrained by the remit of Rio+20. Looking at the Rio+20 website, there is extremely little on education, while education has rightly been a key part of the MDGs. I am not sure why this is, but would very much hope that any post-2015 debate would continue to see the importance of education in transforming lives and societies.

We are discussing some of these issues on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report blog:
http://efareport.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-future-we-want-post-2015-sustainable-development-goals/

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