Addressing the opening of the 2024 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), Amina Mohammed called for transformative actions and daring insurance policies to handle urgent international challenges akin to poverty, meals insecurity and local weather change.
“Though the best challenges earlier than us are daunting, collectively we are able to overcome them, obtain the peaceable, affluent and sustainable future that each one folks not solely want however deserve,” she instructed delegates assembled on the UN Headquarters, in New York.
2024 Discussion board
Beneath the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the theme this year focuses on eradicating poverty via sustainable, resilient, and revolutionary options amid a bunch of crises.
Working via 17 July, the Discussion board will evaluate progress in direction of Goal 1 on ending poverty, Goal 2 on zero hunger, Goal 13 on climate action, Goal 16 on peaceful and inclusive societies, and Goal 17 on strengthening means of implementation.
On the calendar are Voluntary National Review (VNR) Labs, the place international locations voluntarily report on their progress in direction of reaching the SDGs, the challenges they face and their plans to beat them. A number of side events and exhibitions are additionally organized on the HLPF’s margins.
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Economc and Social Council President Paula Narváez (on display screen and at podium) addresses the Excessive-level Political Discussion board.
Targeted discussions
Additionally addressing the Discussion board, Paula Narváez, President of ECOSOC, highlighted the challenges confronted by growing international locations, significantly conflict-affected areas, stressing the necessity for peace and stability.
She emphasised that the agenda consists of native and regional actions, insights from regional boards, key intergovernmental discussions and 37 international locations presenting their VNRs. The Discussion board’s common debate will bridge final yr’s SDG Summit to this September’s Summit of the Future.
“Will probably be an area to current transformative actions and initiatives associated to monitoring the Summit on Sustainable Development Goals in 2023, whereas additionally sharing priorities and expectations” for the upcoming summit, Ms. Narváez stated.
She additionally confused the significance of inclusive participation, significantly of youth and marginalized teams, and the cross-cutting nature of gender perspective for reaching sustainable improvement.
Second to replicate…
Ms. Mohammed highlighted the significance of reflecting on find out how to make progress in direction of the 2030 Agenda, within the context to the eagerly awaited Summit of the Future.
“The Summit is a once-in-a-generation alternative to fix eroded belief and exhibit that worldwide cooperation – human solidarity within the face of alternative but in addition threats – can carry us ahead,” she stated.
In that context, she famous the particular occasion on SDG Acceleration, subsequent Monday, which is able to dive deeper into particular investments wanted and showcase country-level examples of motion.
…and discover options
Additional in her remarks, the Deputy Secretary-Normal highlighted the multifaceted challenges dealing with the worldwide neighborhood, from poverty to local weather change – from conflict to gender-based violence.
The deeply sobering incontrovertible fact that lower than one fifth of the SDGs are on monitor needs to be unacceptable for all of us, she confused.
“However additionally it is fixable…that is what this Discussion board is about – discovering the options and the political will to show our phrases into actions within the lives of individuals within the billions,” she stated, telling delegates:
“Your presence, power and ambition inform me that, though the best challenges earlier than us are daunting, collectively we are able to overcome them, obtain the peaceable, affluent and sustainable future that each one folks not solely want however deserve.”
