Realizing the Future We Want for All
Report to the Secretary-General
New York, June 2012
Following on the outcome of the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Secretary-General established the UN System Task Team in September 2011 to support UN system-wide preparations for the post-2015 UN development agenda, in consul-tation with all stakeholders. The Task Team is co-chaired by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme and brings together senior experts from over 50 UN entities and international organi- zations to provide system-wide support to the post-2015 consultation process,including analytical input, expertise and outreach.
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Realizing the uture we want or all: Report to the Secretary-General
Realizing the future we want for all
Summary
The central challenge of the post-2015 UN development agenda is to
ensure that globalizaon becomes a posive force for all the worlds’peoples of present and future generaons. Globalizaon oers greatopportunies, but its benets are at present very unevenly shared.The connuous striving for improvements in material welfare is
threatening to surpass the limits of the natural resource base unless
there is a radical shi towards more sustainable paerns of con
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sumpon and producon and resource use. Persistent inequaliesand struggles over scarce resources are among key determinants of situaons of conict, hunger, insecurity and violence, which in turnare key factors that hold back human development and eorts toachieve sustainable development.Business as usual thus cannot be an opon and transforma
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ve change is needed. As the challenges are highly interdependent, anew, more holisc approach is needed to address them. Accordingly,this rst report prepared by the UN System Task Team on thePost-2015 UN Development Agenda recommends:• A vision for the future that rests on the core values of hu
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man rights, equality and sustainability.• An agenda format based on concrete end goals and targets,one of the key strengths of the MDG framework should beretained, but reorganized along four key dimensions of amore holisc approach: (1) inclusive social development;(2) inclusive economic development; (3) environmentalsustainability; and (4) peace and security. This focused ap
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proach is consistent with the principles of the MillenniumDeclaraon which set out a vision of freedom from wantand fear for present and future generaons and builds onthe three pillars of sustainable development.• To realize the future we want for all, a high degree of policycoherence at the global, regional, naonal and sub-naonal
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b. Possible format of the agenda for Relatório ONU: "Realizing the Future We Want for All" - 10Julho2012
Uma equipa de trabalho composta por 50 departamentos e agências das Nações Unidas produziu um relatório no final de Junho de 2012 sobre o que o sistema da ONU considera que pode ser a nova Agenda…
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