{"id":29886,"date":"2017-07-17T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=29886"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:51:20","slug":"pace-of-progress-must-accelerate-to-achieve-the-sdgs-finds-latest-un-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/07\/pace-of-progress-must-accelerate-to-achieve-the-sdgs-finds-latest-un-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pace of progress must accelerate to achieve the SDGs, finds latest UN progress report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pace of progress must accelerate to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, finds latest UN progress report<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York, 17 July <\/strong>\u2013 If the world is to eradicate poverty, address climate change and build peaceful, inclusive societies for all by 2030, key stakeholders, including governments, must drive implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a faster rate, says the latest progress report on the SDGs launched by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today.<\/p>\n

Using the most recent data available, the annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides an overview of the world\u2019s implementation efforts to date, highlighting areas of progress and areas where more action needs to be taken to ensure no one is left behind. This year\u2019s report finds that while progress has been made over the past decade across all areas of development, the pace of progress has been insufficient and advancements have been uneven to fully meet the implementation of the SDGs.<\/p>\n

\u201cImplementation has begun, but the clock is ticking,\u201d stated Mr. Guterres. \u201cThis report shows that the rate of progress in many areas is far slower than needed to meet the targets by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite advances, acceleration is needed<\/strong><\/p>\n

While nearly a billion people have escaped extreme poverty since 1999, about 767 million remained destitute in 2013, most of whom live in fragile situations. Despite major advances, alarmingly a high number of children under age 5 are still affected by malnutrition. In 2016, an estimated 155 million children under 5 years of age were stunted (low height for their age). Between 2000 and 2015, the global maternal mortality ratio declined by 37 per cent and the under-5 mortality rate fell by 44 per cent. However, 303,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth and 5.9 million children under age 5 died worldwide in 2015.<\/p>\n

In the area of sustainable energy, while access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking climbed to 57\u00a0per\u00a0cent in\u00a02014, up from 50\u00a0per\u00a0cent in\u00a02000, more than 3\u00a0billion people, lacked access to clean cooking fuels and technologies, which led to an estimated 4.3 million deaths in 2012. From 2015 to 2016, official development assistance (ODA) rose by 8.9 per cent in real terms to 142.6 billion US dollars, reaching a new peak. But bilateral aid to the least developing countries fell by 3.9 per cent in real terms.<\/p>\n

Progress is uneven<\/strong><\/p>\n

The benefits of development are not equally shared. On average, women spent almost triple the amount of time on unpaid domestic and care work as men, based on data from 2010-2016. Economic losses from natural hazards are now reaching an average of 250 billion to 300 billion US dollars a year, with a disproportionate impact on small and vulnerable countries. Despite the global unemployment rate falling from 6.1 per cent in 2010 to 5.7 per cent in 2016, youth were nearly three times more likely than adults to be without a job. In 2015, 85 per cent of the urban population used safely managed drinking water services, compared to only 55 per cent of rural population.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmpowering vulnerable groups is critical to ending poverty and promoting prosperity for everyone, everywhere,\u201d stated Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.<\/p>\n

Harnessing the power of data<\/strong><\/p>\n

Effectively tracking progress on the SDGs \u00a0requires accessible, reliable, timely and disaggregated data at all levels, which poses a major challenge to national and international statistical systems. While data availability and quality have steadily improved over the years, statistical capacity still needs strengthening worldwide. The global statistical community is working to modernize and strengthen statistical systems to address all aspects of production and use of data for the SDGs.<\/p>\n

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About the Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017 is the annual assessment of global and regional progress towards the Goals. The report is based on latest available data on selected indicators of the global SDG indicator framework, prepared by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs with inputs from a large number of international and regional organizations.<\/p>\n

For more information on the SDGs Report 2017, please visit: http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs<\/a><\/p>\n

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Media contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

UN Department of Public Information<\/p>\n

Francyne Harrigan, M: +1 (917) 428-7505 | E: harriganf@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Sharon Birch, T: +1 (212) 963-0564 | E: birchs@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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