The 2030 Agenda, he says, compels them to look beyond national boundaries and short-term interests and act in solidarity for the long-term.
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The United Nations said that top development officials are “keenly focused and enthusiastically preparing” for the moment Friday afternoon when the organization’s 193 member-states formally adopt the new framework, “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
The new development agenda is is composed of 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.
The new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), was endorsed at the on-going United Nations Sustainable Development Summit yesterday holding from September 25-27 at UN Headquarters in New York.
The UN Development Group (UNDG), which unites the UN funds, programmes, specialized agencies, departments, and offices that play a role in global development, pledged its collaboration with all Member States, rolling out a common approach to eliminate bottlenecks, provide new direction and the necessary coordination. When we recognise the God-given dignity in each and every person in our world, we are compelled to reach out to them in love, whatever the cost.
The SDGs, also called Global Goals, are a proposed set of targets relating to future worldwide development and they are to replace the MDGs, once those expire at the end of 2015.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, a strong supporter of the goal calling for affordable, sustainable energy, said lyrics from a song by “the famous philosopher Elvis Presley” were a fitting description of what must happen next.
It is for this reason that ISODEC said through the Action/ 2015 banner had a dialogue with the media on the SDGs, to help monitor their implementation and progress.
The agenda conveys the urgency of climate action.
An agenda for the planet, our common home.
In July this year, at a Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, the institutions unveiled plans to scale up their finance and support for countries seeking to achieve the development goals, pledging to increase their financial contribution to more than $400 billion over the next three years. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
“A little less conversation, a little more action please”, she said.
“The mdg’s showed what is possible when we work together”.
Kenya co-chaired the inter-governmental process that led to the formulation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
“It will depend on the means of implementation”, Maged Abdelaziz, the Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa at the United Nations, told RFI. It is expected that it will also positively influence the negotiations towards a new, meaningful and universal agreement on climate change in Paris this December. Worldwide, about 60 percent of children ages 2-14 regularly experience physical punishment from their caregivers; 85 million children are involved in hazardous work; and more than 120 million girls have experienced sexual violence.
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Governments agreed on a visionary Charter dedicated to “We the Peoples”.
