Perhaps most important, the conference launched a process to develop a set of sustainable development goals, which would build upon the MDGs and converge with the post-2015 development agenda.
On 24 June 2010, UNICEF, the UN Global Compact and Save the Children launched a process to develop a set of Principles offering concrete guidance on what business can do to respect and support children's rights.
"Urbanization can launch a process of value creation," said Xiang Songzuo, chief economist with the Agricultural Bank of China and a deputy director of the International Monetary Institute at Renmin University.
The Trust is holding a couple of open events at the house on Wednesday 23 November (10am-midday) and Saturday 26 November 1-3pmm) to launch a process of involving anyone and everyone in how the house is to be shown.
Voting closes at 5pm GMT, with the first results expected from 9pm. "I hope this election will launch a process of change for the better … but I don't expect a magic wand," said Inna, a voter in the eastern city of Kharkiv that remains under Kiev's control.
The effort also succeeded in launching a process of participatory land use planning across the country.
As for Kofi Annan, he is moving across a cloud of purposeful obscurity because he views himself as the mediator between the government and the opposition, and not as the executor of the decision by the League of Arab States to launch a process of transition of power in Syria.
Are Kagan and Company willing to contemplate a similar scenario in Egypt and the Middle East -- launching a process of U.S. disengagement from the region and of bringing to an end the Pax Americana we have been trying to impose there since 1991 -- and allowing the elites and the peoples there to decide their own future?
Such a pooling together has to begin by launching a process of critical analysis of our respective professional motivations and goals (including their frequently overlooked contradictions).
Member states of the UN General Assembly decided to launch a process of intergovernmental negotiations over the next two years that will include inputs from civil society, academics, governments and the private sector, and culminate in a head of state and government summit in September 2015 when the post-2015 development agenda will be adopted [ 33].
