New York: UNDP chief calls for new development goals linkages

UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark has called for new development targets that focus on how growth, poverty alleviation and sustainability can complement one another.

“At UNDP we believe it is critical to link the poverty eradication, social equity and environmental sustainability agendas together,” Ms. Clark was quoted as saying on Monday at the opening of a two-day conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, on a new agenda once the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 target date.

In a statement on the conference made available to PANA in New York on Tuesday, she said: “Environmental sustainability cannot be a mere add-on to a new global development agenda or stand alone in a vertical silo.

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