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UN endorses historic
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The United Nations 193-member states agreed on Sunday on an
agenda for the world’s sustainable development over the next 15 years that
pledges to leave no-one behind and is now due to be formally adopted by world
leaders at a summit in September. After two weeks of final
negotiations and several all-night sessions, the sustainable development agenda
of 17 goals and a declaration that covers implementation and review were agreed
by consensus to replace eight Millennium Development Goals.
There was a standing
ovation and cheering by diplomats when the agenda was agreed. U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Chef de Cabinet Susana Malcorra described the
agreement as “historic” but warned that the work ahead is immense.
Reuters report continues:
“The sheer size, the
depth and the complexity of this agenda challenges all of us, challenges the
United Nations,” she said.
The eight Millennium
Development Goals had helped focus attention on the needs of poor nations for
the past 15 years.
The new Sustainable
Development Goals will aim to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty, reduce
inequality within and between states, achieve gender equality, improve water
management and energy, and take urgent action to combat climate change.
Meeting the goals would
cost between US$3.3 trillion and US$4.5 trillion a year in state spending,
investment and aid, analysts say, an amount roughly equivalent to the United
States 2016 federal budget of US$3.8 trillion.
More than 100 countries
agreed on a framework in Ethiopia last month to bankroll the sustainable development
goals by mobilizing domestic resources such as taxes, leverage private
investment and channel foreign assistance.
World leaders will meet
from Sept. 25-27 at the United Nations in New York to formally adopt the new
sustainable development agenda. Pope Francis will address the United Nations
before the summit starts.
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