Africa: Post-2015 Development Panel and Climate Change - a Missing Link?

27 February 2013

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the high-level panel on the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda to advise him on a "bold and at the same time practical development agenda beyond 2015".

The panel - like similar panels in the past - was not appointed by U.N. member states. It was appointed by the secretary-general and its task is to advise him. The absence of a direct mandate from U.N. member states may limit the panel's role in some respects, but it also has considerable freedom to act. One question is: how bold will it be?

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