The United Nations announced the appointment of 17 young leaders on Tuesday in NY to ensure they reached global set development benchmarks by 2030.
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On the eve of observing the International Day of Peace, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon comments “the 17 SDGs are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world’s leaders and the people”.
Sustainable Development Goals by United Nations create the building blocks in the global architecture of peace and it is critical that we should organise means of implementation, including financial resources, technology development and transfer, and capacity-building, as well as the role of partnerships. “Importantly, it establishes a benchmark through which we will assess our industry’s progress in contributing to the SDGs by 2030 and serves as a blueprint for other industries as they commit to achieving the Goals”.
The report, entitled “Spaceship Earth”, demonstrates that the actions that businesses, governments, organizations and individuals all over the world have begun to take in the year since the SDGs were launched will be insufficient to meet any of the goals on a worldwide scale.
Collymore pledged Safaricom’s support for the Goals by committing to deliver connectivity and innovative products while minimising their environmental impact at the National Launch of SDGs in Kenya.
Mats Granryd, the Director General of GSMA, underscored that the SDG agenda is far-reaching and ambitious from ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being to achieving gender equality and making cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable to helping to combat climate change and its impacts.
The ‘2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals’ is available at http://www.gsma.com/2016SDGImpactReport.
In order to support a bigger United Nations role in the implementation of the Agenda, China pledges additional 100 million U.S. dollars in annual aid to United Nations development agencies by 2020 on top of the amount in 2015, Li said.
The flagship initiative of the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth comes against a backdrop of increasing efforts by the United Nations to engage young people in the implementation of SDGs. The objectives of the SDGs are to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. “Each country has been successful in at least a few areas”.
Most maternal deaths occur in developing countries, often caused by unsafe abortions, excessive bleeding, high blood pressure or infection during pregnancy, childbirth or the period shortly after delivery, health experts say.
The SDGs are a set of 17 inspirational universal calls for action with 169 targets between them to United Nations member states to ensure economic development, social progress and environmental sustainability.
Pursuing sustainable development is the fundamental solution to all kinds of global problems, said Li, adding that accelerating implementation of the agenda is of great significance for now and in the long term amid a weak global economic recovery and increasing difficulties and risks.
“Therefore, on the path towards sustainable development, China should be ASEAN’s closest partner”, he says.
“When countries have their planning conferences, when they discuss budgets, it is important that the SDGs are part of that”, he said. “They will be the path to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development”.
“This is really about changing the direction of global finance and global politics”.
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In many countries, there will be a significant gap between the global targets and the national targets that they have set for themselves in the past, he said.
