ABSTRACT
One of the success stories of the United Nations has been its capacity to serve as the forum to agree on global development goals. This success includes those set not only in the UN Development Decades but also in the global UN conferences convened since the 1970s and the series of summits that started with the 1990 World Summit for Children. It includes the three major agendas approved in 2015: Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which succeeded the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, adopted at the third Financing for Development (FFD) Conference, following a process that had been launched in Monterrey in 2002; and the Paris Agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
