The post-2015 framework needs to focus on goals and targets that will very directly help to achieve poverty eradication as the overriding goal, rather than struggling to construct a single framework for developmental and environmental issues, in such a monolithic framework, poverty eradication could get lost. On the other hand, a poverty-focused framework can - of course - include global public goods3 where relevant. This would draw attention to the fortunes of the poorest people.