UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Improvement Coordination Workplace (DCO) of the United Nations, Roberto Valent, says the best hope for humanity could be to attain the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) by the 12 months 2030. Sadly, this dream has now discovered itself in peril.
“We should urgently turbocharge the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, together with the achievement of its SDGs whereas viewing the agenda as a dedication to human rights as a lot as it’s a improvement plan,” Valent mentioned.
Established in 2015 by 193 international locations, the 2030 Agenda represents the roadmap to make sure a dignified life for all folks by selling an equitable, inclusive, and peaceable society, fostering prosperity, and taking good care of the planet.
However Valent mentioned regardless of having the data, assets, and know-how wanted to attain these beliefs, “we’re progressing at a charge too gradual to achieve them.
“As we strategy the midway level for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, an unprecedented effort is required from all governments to revitalize and speed up the implementation of the SDGs,” he mentioned, noting that the two-day SDG Summit, which started right here on Monday, provides an important alternative to lift ambition and translate it into concrete motion.
“We’re in a second of ‘poly-crisis,’ going through interconnected and extended crises with critical repercussions for folks, society, and the surroundings. The alarm bells have already been rung: financial instability, the pandemic, conflicts in varied areas, rising migratory actions, humanitarian crises, elevated poverty, damaging local weather occasions, and accelerated biodiversity loss, to call just a few points.”
Valent mentioned that these crises have negatively impacted the progress of the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, the place an alarming 27 p.c of the targets have regressed.
“We’re at a crossroads, however we nonetheless have the chance to right course. Nations’ commitments have to be extra formidable and pressing,” Valent mentioned, including that on the summit, states should current credible and urgently wanted plans to rescue the 2030 Agenda.
“On the nationwide stage, it’s important for governments to collaborate with all stakeholders, together with the personal sector, civil society, academia, and the scientific neighborhood, and to implement extra built-in and transformative public insurance policies.”
He mentioned to attain actual affect, international locations should regulate nationwide budgets and mobilize assets internationally.
“The worldwide monetary structure have to be up to date and extra equitable, particularly for Latin America and the Caribbean. This consists of growing long-term financing and taking measures to alleviate the debt of nations within the area.”
Valent mentioned key measures embrace funding in a simply transition, sustainable useful resource administration, power effectivity, digitalization, and creating inclusive and truthful job alternatives.
He mentioned these actions are basic to reaching the SDGs, and the United Nations advocates for a profound international transformation that addresses present challenges.
“On the nationwide stage, we determine six motion areas with important transformative potential: strengthening social safety programs; guaranteeing respectable work; reworking schooling and selling digitalization; facilitating entry to wash power; reforming meals programs to enhance well being and well-being; and successfully addressing local weather change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution.”
Valent mentioned that the United Nations groups within the 40 international locations and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean are dedicated to supporting governments and society in making these transformations a actuality.
“Our frequent future is at stake, and we’ve a seven-year deadline to show issues round. The dangers of not engaging in the SDGs are consequential, so we have to enhance ambition and motion considerably.
“Future generations will choose us by our choices right this moment, and we can not afford to disappoint them. We have to be steadfast in our dedication to create a extra sustainable and simply future,” Valent added.
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