The challenge for global partnership among developed and developing nations has become urgent, with only seven years away from the timeframe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The agenda, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which raise an urgent call for action by all countries — developed and developing — in a global collaboration.
They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
Experts have pointed to seven major initiatives to achieve sustainability goals: Infrastructure Imperatives, Carbon Management, Green Energy, Circular Economy, Environment Conservation, Water Conservation and Energy Efficiency.
Last month, the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, under the auspices of the United Nations General Assembly, helped catalyze renewed efforts towards accelerating progress on the SDGs, serving as a vital road map out of these challenges.
Heads of state, governments, political and thought leaders from various sectors, along with civil society, women, youth and other stakeholders, convened at the UN Headquarters in New York to raise ambition and transformative action to ensure the targets set in 2015 are met.
With just seven years left to achieve the SDG, world leaders have renewed a call for action and delivery for sustainable development, and pledged to mobilize financing, enhance national implementation and strengthen institutions to achieve the Goals by the target date of 2030, leaving no one behind.
We support the call of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on all sectors of society to mobilize for years of action on three levels: global action to secure greater leadership, more resources and smarter solutions for the SDG, and local action embedding the needed transitions in the policies of governments as well as people action, including by youth, civil society, the media, the private sector, unions, the academe and other stakeholders.