Sustainable Development Goals

• [New] The UN declared 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, signalling a strong political commitment to restoration for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
• [New] With only 10 years left until 2030, the rate at which access to sanitation is increasing will need to quadruple if the world is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) sanitation target.
• The 2019 United Nations Economic Commission for African (UNECA) Economic Report on Africa emphasizes that countries' ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 would depend on choices made now about fiscal policy and resource generation.
• Universal access to quality maternal care and neonatal care services is pivotal to achieving the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 1, 00,000 live births by 2030.
• Sustainable Development Goal 12 of the United Nations on 'responsible production and consumption' states that by 2030 food losses and waste, should be reduced by 50%.
• One target of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
• Many corporations and brands are creating new sustainability goals for 2030 and beyond, and the United Nations has updated its Sustainable Development Goals to serve as a framework for global COVID-19 recovery.
• The United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recently estimated that in order to adequately fund the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries, US$ 5 trillion to US$ 7 trillion will be required in annual investments by 2030.
• The UN remains committed to the existing timeline of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end global poverty in all its forms and to reduce inequality within every country by 2030.
• The United Nations estimates that US$ 2.5 trillion is required annually for developing countries to bridge the financing gap in achieving the (Sustainable Development Goals) by 2030.
• Countries around the world have committed to achieving universal health coverage as part of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed upon by all United Nations members, intended to be achieved by 2030.
• 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.
• 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.

Last updated: 10 January 2021