Welcome to the United Nations
Date and time: Wednesday, February 26, 3:00-4:30pm EST
Place: Conference Room 5, UNHQ New York
The event was live streamed and can be watched on UN Web TV.
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP)’s 2025 open session focused on “Advancing sustainable development by 2030 and beyond”. In the Pact for the Future, Member states invite “the high-level political forum, under the auspices of the General Assembly, to consider in September 2027 how we will advance sustainable development by 2030 and beyond, as a priority and at the centre of our work.” The Committee hopes to contribute, through its work from 2025 to 2027, to this process. At this event, a group of CDP members shared their perspectives on what the international community should consider as it charts a path toward sustainable development beyond 2030, in light of the ongoing challenges in achieving the SDGs. They drew from their individual research and practice as well as from work by CDP, which is currently examining, as part of a multi-year programme that started in 2024, new contexts and pathways for development.
The following questions were addressed:
- What has changed in the development landscape since 2015 that demands changes in how we approach the SDGs?
- What lessons have we learned from the implementation of the 2030 Agenda so far?
- What is needed from the international community to move ahead by 2030 and beyond taking into account the current context and lessons learned?
Moderator:
Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Introduction:
Francine Pickup, Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Speakers:
• Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
• Carlos Alvarado, Professor of Practice of Diplomacy, Tufts University, The Fletcher School
• Nyovani Madise, Social statistician, global health researcher, and President of the Union for the African Population Studies
• Taffere Tesfachew, Senior Advisor on Economic Transformation to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
More information:
2025 CDP Plenary
