UN calls for renewed action for sustainable development goals

UN calls for renewed action for sustainable development goals

NEW YORK: The United Nations, today, is kicking off a communications campaign to rally for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the roadmap for people and planet adopted by world leaders in 2015. Ahead of a critical UN Summit in September, the campaign aims to amplify an urgent call for ambitious new action, showcase the Goals as the blueprint for sustainable progress globally and stimulate the global public around this shared agenda for our common future. At the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, For the first time in decades the world has seen development progress stalled and even reversed under the combined weight of climate disasters, conflict, economic downturn.

The world’s poorest countries and most vulnerable people are once again bearing the results of this situation. It is critical to Leave No One Behind. On its current course, many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may miss its target by 2030, resulting in the need to accelerate collective efforts towards achieving these goals. The 2023 SDG Summit will gather world leaders at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 18-19 September to reaffirm their collective commitments to the goals and the promise to leave no one behind. This summit is a defining moment