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Session 19: Realizing the SDGs: Matching ambitions with commensurate means of implementation - resources, technology and capacities
UNDESA, 2015
by: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)

8 July 2015, 2.30 – 3.45 pm

The post-2015 development agenda will have at its core the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs, as proposed by the Open Working Group, are a set of universal goals covering the whole range of sustainable development issues. The level of ambition captured in the Open Working Group proposal is high: if these goals are achieved, our world will be truly transformed over the next 15 years.

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