SDG Acceleration Actions ignite progress towards global goals
“Every engine needs a spark to accelerate,” UN DESA head Liu Zhenmin told the participants of a special event yesterday. Our engine, comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promising to drive the global community towards a just and sustainable future, is in need of that spark. The COVID-19 pandemic is but one crack in… Read more ›
‘Turn the tide’ across a turbulent world, UN chief urges key development forum
“Concrete, bold and implementable solutions” are needed to turn the tide on the many challenges the world is facing, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, on the biggest day so far for the UN’s key international forum on sustainable development. While acknowledging that the planet was not on track last year… Read more ›
Cities and local government must focus on well-being of people in developing countries
While the scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt in developing and developed countries alike, the President of the UN General Assembly maintained on Monday that the response must focus on “the two-thirds of the world’s population at risk of being left behind”. “We need to focus on specific actions that will… Read more ›
COVID-19 pushes more government activities online despite persisting digital divide
Denmark, Korea and Estonia top the 2020 UN e-government ranking. As the COVID-19 pandemic forces lockdowns, most countries and municipalities are pursuing digital government strategies, many with innovative initiatives – but vast numbers of people still do not have access to online services, according to the 2020 edition of the United Nations E‑Government Survey, released… Read more ›
United Nations launches framework to speed up progress on water and sanitation goal
The UN announced new plans to accelerate progress to achieve the water and sanitation-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a special event today. Read more ›
‘New dynamic’ needed to overcome negative impacts of COVID-19 worldwide
The dramatic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, have laid bare “weaknesses in our systems and societies”, a top official told the UN’s key international forum on sustainable development which began on Tuesday, warning that “a new dynamic” is needed to overcome the negative shocks. “The COVID-19 pandemic, while primarily a health crisis, also quickly became the worst… Read more ›
UN report finds COVID-19 is reversing decades of progress on poverty, healthcare and education
The effects of the pandemic have devastated the most vulnerable and left them further behind The 15-year global effort to improve the lives of people everywhere through the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 was already off track by the end of 2019. And now, in only a short period of… Read more ›
A sustainable future for all depends on ‘resolve to act together in solidarity’
The United Nations vision for a sustainable future for all “will depend on our policy choices today, and our resolve to act together in solidarity”, a senior UN official told delegates on Monday at a meeting to discuss post-pandemic recovery. Read more ›
High-Level Political Forum 2020
The High-level Political Forum, United Nations central platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, provides for the full and effective participation of all States Members of the United Nations and States members of specialized agencies.
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