It details the 10-year framework of programmes for SCP (10YFP) and concludes with a discussion of global collaboration on SCP policy. Through initiatives at local and national level, sub-regional and regional platforms that highlighted common characteristics and the work of the Marrakech Process that galvanised and propelled the international SCP agenda, the 10YFP highlights both the needs and opportunities for governments, UN Agencies and stakeholders to operate in concert. To better understand the 10YFP, it is useful to know the evolution of SCP within the international policy agenda. This was the same year as the release by the Club of Rome of the landmark publication The Limits to Growth with a clarion call to shift course away from the economic growth paradigm in order to avoid overshoot and collapse (Meadows et al.