Juvenal Shiundu is representing IMO at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (6-10 July), at UN Headquarters in New York, United States. The Forum is being held under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and aims to foster debate between governments, the UN system and other organizations, scientists, major groups and other stakeholders of civil society on all aspects surrounding the implementation of the new sustainability agenda and push to eradicate global poverty. In September, UN Member States will adopt a set of sustainable development goals that build on the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which had a deadline of 2015. The UN is working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.