Please contribute: Online Consultations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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Environmental Sustainability for the World We Want: Moving From the MDGs to Post-2015

What is your vision for a sustainable world free from poverty?

The World We Want initiative aims to gather the priorities of people from every corner of the world and help build a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one that is based on the aspirations of all citizens.

How can you contribute?

Questions are proposed to help prompt a global conversation on how lessons from the MDGs and MDG7 can be considered in a post-2015 development framework. An e-discussion has been set-up and will run from February 4 – March 1, 2013.

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Provide your thoughts online at: www.worldwewant2015.org/sustainability

The Questions

Week 1 (4-10 Feb): Capitalizing on the MDGs and MDG7 Achievements and Addressing the Gaps

• How and to what extent can we build on lessons learned from MDG7's achievement in developing our post-2015 development agenda?
• How can the post-2015 agenda address any gaps related to environmental sustainability in the overall MDG framework?

Week 2 (11-17 Feb):  Addressing Development Challenges in a Changing World

• Which global trends and uncertainties may influence how environmental sustainability is framed in the international development agenda over the next 10-30 years?
• What new elements and considerations would need to be incorporated into the post-2015 agenda for it to be environmentally sustainable and adequately capture the essence of the world’s evolving development/financial/social/economic/environmental/etc challenges? 

Week 3 (18-24 Feb): Framing Environmental Sustainability in the Post-2015 Agenda

• In the spirit of the outcomes of Rio+20, what are the barriers and enablers to gradually moving towards environmental sustainability?
• Building on the MDGs and the outcomes of Rio+20, how would you envisage a conceptual framework for the post-2015 agenda that can help drive a transition to an environmentally sustainable future? What are the key characteristics?

 Week 4 (25 Feb – 3 Mar): Consensus and Divergence

• The final week will wrap up the e-discussion by identifying areas where there seems to be evolving consensus and also areas where further dialogue is needed.  The moderators will pose a series of questions for the final week based on the outcomes of the first 3-weeks of the discussion.