‘Staggering proposition’ reaching SDGs for small island States: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

‘Staggering proposition’ reaching SDGs for small island States: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

That’s according to Joanna Kazana, the UN Resident Coordinator for Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten. On 18 September, countries from around the world will come together at the SDG Summit in New York to take stock of what progress has been made ahead of the 2030 deadline for the goals to realized. “For a…

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Cooperation across Global South, key to reaching SDGs

Cooperation across Global South, key to reaching SDGs

This year’s official theme is “Solidarity, Equity, and Partnership: Unlocking South-South Cooperation to Achieve the SDGs.” South-South cooperation is a manifestation of solidarity contributing to national well-being, national and collective self-reliance, and the attainment of internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Coming just ahead of the two-day SDG Summit, the commemoration is an…

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Halfway to 2030, world ‘nowhere near’ reaching Global Goals, UN warns

Halfway to 2030, world ‘nowhere near’ reaching Global Goals, UN warns

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that while ambition, urgency and solidarity have been lacking to overcome the myriad challenges, many countries are now staring into “a financial abyss”, strangling the resources needed to realize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “The annual SDG funding gap has risen from $2.5 trillion before the pandemic to an…

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Dam disaster: UN ‘committed to reaching all Ukrainians in need’, says top aid official

Dam disaster: UN ‘committed to reaching all Ukrainians in need’, says top aid official

Denise Brown, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, offered reassurance to Dmytro Kuleba that UN agencies and other humanitarian partners have been delivering water, food and cash to those displaced or suffering the impact of the dam breach, and collapse of the crucial hydroelectric plant in the southeast region near the city of Kherson. Expanding support “Plans are now…

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New UNESCO report reveals $97 billion barrier to reaching education targets

New UNESCO report reveals $97 billion barrier to reaching education targets

The paper Can countries afford their national SDG4 benchmarks? by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was written as input for the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  It focused on Goal 4 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,…

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