Macharia Kamau, Pamela Chasek, David O'Connor

Gebundenes Buch

Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy

The Inside Story of the Sustainable Development Goals

Beschreibung

Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Autor

Macharia Kamau, as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN, served as Co-Chair of the OWG on the SDGs and the Co-Facilitator of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Environmental Diplomacy from the International Council of Environmental Law and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Pamela Chasek is professor of political science at Manhattan College. She is the executive editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on UN environment and development negotiations, and she reported from every meeting of the OWG on SDGs. She is the author and editor of Global Environmental Politics, The Roads from Rio, The Global Environment in the 21st Century, and Earth Negotiations. David O'Connor served, from 2003 to 2015, as Chief of the Policy and Analysis Branch, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN where he led a team of policy researchers who provided the analytical direction and substanceto the UN's work on sustainable development, supporting the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9781138589988
• ISBN-10: 1138589985
• Artikelnr.: 51741257

Rezensionen

"The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 was a defining moment in United Nations history and no one is better placed than Ambassador Macharia Kamau to tell the story of how we achieved this transformative vision for a better world." -Ban Ki-moon, Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations

"An inside look at the drama of the negotiations, and the creation of a new UN development paradigm." -Shannon Orr, Bowling Green State University