{"id":21627,"date":"2024-08-08T00:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21627"},"modified":"2024-08-08T00:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:11:49","slug":"un-summit-of-the-future-to-address-sustainable-development-goals-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/un-summit-of-the-future-to-address-sustainable-development-goals-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Summit of the Future to Address Sustainable Development Goals Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues, has expressed concerns that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set for achievement by 2030 are unlikely to be met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She highlighted that only 17% of the goals have been achieved so far, largely due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address these issues, world leaders will convene for the &#8220;UN Summit of the Future,&#8221; scheduled for September 22-23, at the UN Headquarters in New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summit aims to review progress on the SDGs and tackle emerging global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, outlines ambitious goals including gender equality, eradication of poverty, quality education, and promoting peace and justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the pandemic and geopolitical crises have significantly hampered progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One key focus of the summit will be the creation of a new emergency response platform for the UN, designed to offer more effective support to countries affected by natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming summit represents a critical opportunity for the international community to re-evaluate strategies and enhance efforts toward achieving the SDGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues, has expressed concerns that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set for achievement by 2030 are unlikely to be met. She&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21629,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21627\/revisions\/21629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}