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Transforming multilateral diplomacy : The inside story of the sustainable development goals / by Ambassador Macharia Kamau, Pamela Chasek & David O'Connor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, c2018Description: xxiv, 341 pages : illustrations, 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813350868 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 338.9​27 KAM 013767
Contents:
1.Setting the Stage What Are the Sustainable Development Goals? Time for a Change A Quick Guide to UN Negotiations The Journey Ahead 2.Multilateralism: Complexity and Intrigues Twenty-First-Century Challenges to Multilateralism Rebalancing Economic and Political Power The Millennium Development Goals The Need for a Paradigm Shift The Tipping Point: Rio+20 and the Birth of the SDGs Conclusions and Lessons Learned 3.Getting Started: Creating the Open Working Group Back to New York: Rio+20 Follow-up Electing the Co-chairs Initial Challenges 4.Uncertain Beginnings Playing the Long Game to Educate, Depoliticize, and Level the Playing Field The Stocktaking Process Changing Alliances Expanding Horizons The Elephants in the Room 5.The Cast of Characters Reading the Room State Actors Non-state Actors Contents note continued: Conclusions and Lessons Learned 6.The Use of Process and Drama A Bird's-Eye View of the SDG Negotiations Strategies and Tactics The End Game 7.The Birth of the Goals Goals 1 6: Updating and Enhancing the MDGs Moving Beyond the MDGs: Energy, Economic Growth, Employment and Equality for the New Agenda Urbanization, Consumption Patterns, Climate and the Environment The Enabling Environment 8.Pulling It All Together: The Sdgs and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Beginning Anew Changing Dynamics The Politics of a Declaration "Tweaking" the Targets Means of Implementation and the Global Partnership: Almost a Disaster Follow-up and Review: Another Elephant in the Room The Final Push 9.Transforming Our World Launching the Goals Ownership in Implementation Contents note continued: 10.The Legacy of the Open Working Group On Sustainable Development Goals Lessons Learned Negotiating Processes Matter.
Summary: "Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only did this process mark a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy, it changed the way the UN does its business. This book tells the story of the people, issues, negotiations, and paradigm shifts that unfolded through the Open Working Group (OWG) on SDGs and the subsequent negotiations on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, from the unique point of view of Ambassador Macharia Kamau, and other key participants from governments, the UN Secretariat, and civil society."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Setting the Stage
What Are the Sustainable Development Goals?
Time for a Change
A Quick Guide to UN Negotiations
The Journey Ahead
2.Multilateralism: Complexity and Intrigues
Twenty-First-Century Challenges to Multilateralism
Rebalancing Economic and Political Power
The Millennium Development Goals
The Need for a Paradigm Shift
The Tipping Point: Rio+20 and the Birth of the SDGs
Conclusions and Lessons Learned
3.Getting Started: Creating the Open Working Group
Back to New York: Rio+20 Follow-up
Electing the Co-chairs
Initial Challenges
4.Uncertain Beginnings
Playing the Long Game to Educate, Depoliticize, and Level the Playing Field
The Stocktaking Process
Changing Alliances
Expanding Horizons
The Elephants in the Room
5.The Cast of Characters
Reading the Room
State Actors
Non-state Actors
Contents note continued: Conclusions and Lessons Learned
6.The Use of Process and Drama
A Bird's-Eye View of the SDG Negotiations
Strategies and Tactics
The End Game
7.The Birth of the Goals
Goals 1
6: Updating and Enhancing the MDGs
Moving Beyond the MDGs: Energy, Economic Growth, Employment and Equality for the New Agenda
Urbanization, Consumption Patterns, Climate and the Environment
The Enabling Environment
8.Pulling It All Together: The Sdgs and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Beginning Anew
Changing Dynamics
The Politics of a Declaration
"Tweaking" the Targets
Means of Implementation and the Global Partnership: Almost a Disaster
Follow-up and Review: Another Elephant in the Room
The Final Push
9.Transforming Our World
Launching the Goals
Ownership in Implementation
Contents note continued: 10.The Legacy of the Open Working Group On Sustainable Development Goals
Lessons Learned
Negotiating Processes Matter.

"Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only did this process mark a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy, it changed the way the UN does its business. This book tells the story of the people, issues, negotiations, and paradigm shifts that unfolded through the Open Working Group (OWG) on SDGs and the subsequent negotiations on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, from the unique point of view of Ambassador Macharia Kamau, and other key participants from governments, the UN Secretariat, and civil society."

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