Nearly half of the goals are off track, and the United Nations: the 2030 development agenda is difficult to achieve sustainable development | goals | progress | emergence | action | agenda | achievement | United Nations
On July 10th local time, the United Nations released a report stating that at the current global development rate, by 2030, 575 million people will still live in extreme poverty and 84 million children will be unable to attend school. And achieving gender equality will take 286 years.
According to the Associated Press, in 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, calling on countries to take action and strive to achieve 17 sustainable development goals over the next 15 years. According to a report released by the United Nations on July 10th, only 15% of the approximately 140 specific goals assessed by experts are expected to be achieved within the next 10 years. Nearly half of the targets are off track, while 30% of the targets have made no progress or even regressed.
The goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development include eradicating poverty and hunger, providing quality education for children, achieving gender equality, strengthening ecological construction, and taking urgent action to address climate change.
With only 7 years left to implement the agenda, the United Nations has stated that the sustainable development agenda is in trouble and it is time to sound the alarm.
UN Secretary General Guterres stated in the preface of the report, "Unless we take action now, the 2030 agenda may become the epitaph of the world we expect... Failure to make progress means that inequality will continue to deepen, increasing the risk of dividing the world."
Guterres also said that among the 104 countries studied, 80% of the children's vaccination rate had the largest decline in 30 years, and the death toll of tuberculosis and malaria had increased; The level of education has declined. The above situation has disrupted progress in poverty reduction in the past thirty years and led to the most severe exacerbation of inequality between countries in the past thirty years.
UN officials said, "By May 2023, human rights violations such as war and conflict have caused 110 million people to be displaced and generated 35 million refugees, the highest number on record."
The United Nations hopes that at the United Nations General Assembly in September this year, countries can propose a "new roadmap" to accelerate global, regional, and national actions to achieve the 2030 goals.