Mark Malloch-Brown: developing the MDGs was a bit like nuclear fusion

The high-level panel appointed by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to draw up a post-2015 development agenda might well be casting envious backward glances at the small team that drafted the Millennium Development Goals. Lord Mark Malloch-Brown explains how he and the small group wrote up the MDGs in the basement of the UN office in New York in "relative casualness", so much so they almost forgot to include a section on the environment – MDG seven on environmental sustainability.
Read more at the source: Guardian UK

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