The year 2015 and the Sustainable Development Goals offer an unprecedented opportunity to consolidate and galvanize action so that we may see real change in our time.
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“The financing imperatives for a sustainable future are vast; and a policy paradigm, centered on among others, Africa’s trillions of dollars in savings is the way forward”, he emphasized.
A study by Ericsson and the Earth Institute at Columbia University has highlighted how ICT, and in particular mobile technology, will be able to accelerate the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, which will soon be presented to the UN General Assembly. The MDGs constituted a 15-year agenda of deliverables, which deadline elapsed this year.
This weekend the United Nations launches its sustainable development goals with the aim of ending poverty and building a life of dignity for all. 193 world leaders will commit to the 17 goals of the SDGs.
“The new Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious on paper – and they could be historic in their impact”. The 16 new goals will guide the global community’s work in ending extreme poverty, inequality and injustice over the next 15 years.
71% of nearly 1000 senior business executives surveyed said they are already making plans on how to respond to the goals and targets across a range of human, environmental, economic, and health issues. There is a significant departure from the previous framework to now include a “harmonising” of three elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.
Christian, Islamic, and Jewish leaders gathered on the steps of the cathedral to try to persuade David Cameron to take a stronger stand to approve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations summit in New York today.
“The European Union has played a major role in shaping the new agenda”. “Our political leaders have set the goals”. The WCC will also hold a side event in New York on the “Moral imperative to end extreme poverty”, in partnership with the World Bank and other civil society organizations, on Thursday, 24 September.
“We are very pleased that President Xi will be visiting the United Nations as part of the (celebrations of the) 70th anniversary (since the founding of the bloc)”, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told a regular briefing. Another goal, halving the number of people without access to clean sources of water, was met five years ahead of schedule.
The new agenda is people-centered, universal, transformative and integrated.
The opening ceremony of the Summit will start at 10:50am EDT (GMT-4) on 25 September, with the film screening, “The Earth from Space”, followed by musical performances by UN Goodwill Ambassadors Shakira and Angelique Kidjo, as well as a call to action by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai along with youth representatives as torch bearers to a sustainable future. All countries will need to contribute their fair share, taking account of levels of development, national contexts and capacities.
Currently, more than 1.5 million farmers and workers across 74 developing countries benefit from the worldwide Fairtrade system.
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Meanwhile, the secretary-general also spoke highly of the Chinese efforts to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions while tapping into renewable energy.
