2025 CDP Plenary Open Session: Advancing sustainable development by 2030 and beyond

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP)'s 2025 opening session focused on "Advancing sustainable development by 2030 and beyond".

In the Pact for the Future, Member states invite "the high-level political forum, under the auspices of the General Assembly, to consider in September 2027 how we will advance sustainable development by 2030 and beyond, as a priority and at the centre of our work."

The Committee hopes to contribute, through its work from 2025 to 2027, to this process. At this event, a group of CDP members shared their perspectives on what the international community should consider as it charts a path toward sustainable development beyond 2030, in light of the ongoing challenges in achieving the SDGs. They drew from their individual research and practice as well as from work by CDP, which is currently examining, as part of a multi-year programme started in 2024, new contexts and pathways for development.

Watch full recording here (Sabina Alkire's session starts here)