Edward Elmendorf’s UN-Day lightning talk talk is structured in three parts: looking back, the state of play today, and looking forward. The history is traced from the Marshall Plan and the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee through to the move from the MDGs to the SDGs. The current situation is that we're ten years in and about two-thirds of the SDG targets are still way behind. There's a funding gap of over $4 trillion a year and less than five years to 2030. He positions the present as a choice between “chaos and decline or renewal" with reference to a US retreat and the potential for new ways of working.
