Climate change threatens progress of sustainable development | Chronic

The effects of climate change and growing inequality between countries threaten to reverse much of the progress of the Agenda for Sustainable Development by 2030, the UN warned in a report. The paper, presented at the opening day of the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, annual badessment event, builds on the latest available data and continues to be the cornerstone of the badessment of progress made in the implementation of the Convention. the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global project to create a fairer and healthier planet.

Four years after the adoption of these goals, this new report reported progress in some areas (reducing extreme poverty, widespread immunization, reducing the infant mortality rate and increasing people's access to electricity). but He warned that the answer all over the world "He lacks sufficient ambition".

"It is obvious that a much deeper, faster and more ambitious response is needed to generate the social and economic transformation needed to achieve our goals by 2030"said the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres.