Sustainable Development Goals

• [New] China and other emerging markets are suffering a shortfall in sustainable financing, which could hamper the ability of the United Nations to meet its goals for addressing sustainable development goals in the next decade.
• [New] The application of the global guidelines and the achievement of their goals will help to conserve forest biodiversity, ensure sustainable forestry, and contribute to the achievement of several Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations linked with forest biodiversity.
• As a global player, the European Union plays a key role in achieving SDGs by 2030.
• Based on the 2020 Social Progress Index projections, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to set back global development by a decade, delaying achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 62 years unless urgent actions are taken.
• The vast sums of money flowing out of Africa through illegal, corrupt practices are undermining progress made by African countries to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
• Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has accorded high priority for ending tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals..
• In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 related targets for the world governments to focus on with a view to tackling the multitude of world challenges by 2030.
• Global progress towards the achievement of universal electricity access by 2030 - as targeted under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 - remains insufficient.
• If current trends did not improve, the Sustainable Development Goal 2 - eradicating world hunger, food insecurity, and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 - would be not be reached.
• Even without the negative effects of COVID-19, SOFI insists that the world is not on track to achieve the Zero Hunger by 2030 target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.
• The Caribbean, while making progress, is off track to achieve the hunger reduction target of the SDGs by 2030: by 2030, 6.6 million people will live with hunger in that area.
• The health-related SDG targets for 2030 include satisfying people's needs for modern contraception, reducing maternal and newborn deaths, and ending the HIV epidemic.
• The 15-year global effort to improve the lives of people everywhere through the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 was already off track by the end of 2019.
• An additional 130 million people may live in extreme poverty by 2030, presenting a major setback for the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eliminate poverty and improve other health and inequality measures by the end of the decade.
• The COVID-19 pandemic may result in two million cases of female genital mutilation that would otherwise have been averted or a one third reduction in progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 5.3, the elimination of female genital mutilation by 2030.
• Some 238 million households around the world will need to gain electricity access by 2030 if society is to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7, ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
• To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, approximately $7 trillion in private sector capital needs to be unlocked in developing countries.
• Last year Luxembourg launched a 10-step framework to implement the United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals and drafted a climate law to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% until 2030.
• With just 10 years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 7 by 2030, global efforts must be redoubled, particularly in Africa, or the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable, and modern energy.
• Progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 on access to clean water and sanitation for all before 2030 is worryingly off-track, bringing to light the challenges facing the water sector worldwide.
• Biodiversity conservation will remain a priority of EU external action and a pillar for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as we move towards defining the world's post-2020 global biodiversity ambitions.

Last updated: 29 November 2020