A memoir from 2015, what happened and why?

The year 2015 was very important for Earth.

Time passes by quickly and as the years drift away from 2015, it gets clearer to me the significance of the actions taken by the UN that year. I remember the years before 2015, the turbulence in international cooperation on the UN arena. The anticipation in year 2011 and 2012 what would happen to the MDGs in year 2015 and how would they be changed.

Then the relief when the first news came out on how the process would look alike, who would lead them and how.

Today I am still amazed by the incredible giant collaboration on this biggest strategy sessions of all times.

A global cooperation on a new system for humanity.

At that time from 2012-2015 I was the Secretary-General for the UN Association, and our role was to inform the Icelandic public on UN issues. In my mind these years before 2015 have a very slow rhythm.

I really don´t think that during these years that anyone in Iceland was following UN news as closely as I did. I was giving lectures at colleges around Reykjavik on the new Global Goals and thrilled to transmit these incredible news on our new world model.

I remember the day when the first news came out on the name and number of the Goals.

That was a magic number, not nine or twelve, but they were 17!!!

WHY - where my thought for a few days.

How could you ever design a new model for the world with "seventeen" Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But having followed the whole process of the formation and negotiations of the Global Goals, the politics and the trade of words that were behind it, it had to have a good reason.

I recall being a bit disappointed, thinking it would be too complicated for the mass population to implement them towards more wellbeing around the world.

But also very thankful, to the thousands of people that had been working on our future's global strategy.

It still is the most comprehensive and global agreement that has been made on our Earths future, and it is worth being grateful for the work of thousands of specialists that participated.

BGlobal ❤️

Kindness,
Berglind