Beyond-2030 Agenda

The 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeeded in mobilizing international actors around a shared vision of global development. Yet the profound shortfall in meeting the SDGs signals that a successor framework cannot simply be more of the same. A Beyond-2030 Agenda will emerge in a world of deep geopolitical fracture, a multilateral system under financial and legitimacy strain, and a discredited neoliberal development paradigm. The questions at stake are fundamental: Does the world still need global goals, and if so, what kind? What economic principles should guide development in place of the old orthodoxies? How do states build the capacity to actually deliver? How is it financed, and by whom?

FES New York, together with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, is convening a group of progressive thinkers under the leadership of Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to address those questions and build a compelling, rigorous progressive vision for what comes next.