In a conversation at Casa Devex, Minh-Thu Pham of Project Starling presented an unusually positive view of the development scene and how impactful the Sevilla compromise could actually be.
“I think if you look at the world on fire right now, and countries left and right deciding to renege on their commitments or decrease their commitments to development and development assistance … I think [the Sevilla compromise] is a pretty important win for multilateral cooperation,” she said. And it’s not just Sevilla — Pham pointed to other successes, such as the pandemic accord agreed at the World Health Assembly in May or the legally binding High Seas Treaty, which moved forward at a recent U.N. conference.
Even if not every part of an international agreement gets executed, she maintained, it “sets a bar for where the global community wants to go.”
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