SDGs - Feasible, desirable or a leap too far?

Date: Tuesday 8 May, 13:00-14:30

Place: Committee Room 8, House of Commons, London

Organisers: ODI, All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development, All Party Parliamentary Group on Debt, Aid and Trade and Institute of Development Studies .

This summer’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will centre on the ambition to create a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). However many questions remain unanswered about how these goals would work in practice.

At this event convened by two of the UK’s leading international development organisations, the Overseas Development Institute and the Institute of Development Studies, a panel of experts will discuss the desirability and feasibility of SDGs and explore how they might fit into the wider context of what replaces the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.

Speakers include:

• Paul Ladd, Advisor to UNDP on issues related to inclusive globalization, including development finance, debt sustainability, trade and migration.
• Dr James Mackie Senior Adviser, EU Development Policy, ECDPM
• Dr Matthew Lockwood Research Fellow and Leader of the Climate Change Team, Institute of Development Studies
• Dr Claire Melamed Head of Growth Poverty and Inequality Programme at the Overseas Development Institute

Chair:

• David Laws MP

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