In 2000 the international community agreed binding targets for sustainable development in the form of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). This triggered debate on how the measures needed to achieve the goals would be funded. In 2002 the developing and industrialised countries adopted the Monterrey Consensus, in which they agreed to increase public financing of development cooperation; this agreement was reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration of December 2008. Since then, however, the challenges faced by development financing have mounted as a result of the global financial and economic crisis. more - Background: Financing development