Dear Colleagues,

The holidays have started, at least for some of us, so I won’t bother you with a long intro this week. Hope you’re all enjoying a nice cocktail in some good company on a not yet flooded island, perhaps in the swimming pool to stay reasonably safe from forest fires 😊. But do first have a good look at the revamped IHP website. To celebrate the occasion, we launched a call for bloggers from Francophone Africa (with deadline 31 July). Spread the word in your networks (and while you’re at it it, enourage them to subscribe to the newsletter 😊)! Meanwhile, I’m brushing up on my French, but given IHP induced cognitive decline, I’m afraid that will be a long term project 🙂

This newsletter will zoom in, among others, on the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York   (including a flurry of SDG-related reports, with civil society’s  Spotlight Report 2019   as my personal favourite, but probably also plenty of “SDG-washing” by governments &...