22 November 2023 SDGs

At a clip erstwhile radical are hurting and the satellite is burning, the world’s precocious economies tin instrumentality the pb successful ensuring financial, structural and clime justice, the UN Secretary-General said successful remarks to the virtual G20 Summit convened by India connected Wednesday. 

António Guterres said the world, peculiarly processing countries, is facing “a cleanable storm”, with increasing inequalities, clime chaos, conflicts and hunger. Meanwhile, fiscal abstraction is tightening for many, with crushing indebtedness burdens and skyrocketing prices.

“This is simply a look for planetary instability and suffering,” helium said, speaking from Santiago, Chile.

Support for SDG Stimulus  

The UN main called for G20 members to assistance pb the mode successful fiscal justness and commended their enactment for his $500 cardinal yearly stimulus program to accelerate accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Mr. Guterres said helium volition found a Leaders Group to show the implementation of the SDG Stimulus to alteration $500 cardinal successful further semipermanent improvement finance. 

Reform ‘unfair’ fiscal systems 

He underscored the request to enactment to betterment the existent planetary fiscal architecture, describing it arsenic “outdated, dysfunctional and unfair”, and commended the bloc’s enactment to betterment multilateral improvement banks, arsenic good arsenic Brazil’s absorption connected planetary governance during its presidency of the forum. 

However, “practical solutions indispensable beryllium tabled” astatine the Summit of the Future adjacent September, helium stressed, referring to the UN league to reaffirm committedness to sustainable development.

Deliver connected clime promises 

Mr. Guterres is successful Chile and volition question to Antarctica earlier heading to the UN clime league COP28 which opens adjacent week successful Dubai. 

He urged the G20 to present “an ambitious, credible and conscionable outcome” to support the extremity of limiting planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celcius supra pre-industrial levels, arsenic outlined successful the Paris Agreement connected clime change.

“This means getting the nonaccomplishment and harm money up-and-running with aboriginal pledges, delivering each promised fiscal support, tripling renewables capacity, doubling vigor efficiency, and bringing cleanable powerfulness to each by 2030,” helium said.

“It besides means phasing-out fossil fuels, with a wide timeframe aligned to the 1.5-degree limit.”

Israel-Hamas agreement

Mr. Guterres began his remarks by welcoming the statement reached by Israel and Hamas connected a humanitarian intermission successful Gaza and the merchandise of hostages. 

“This is an important measurement successful the close direction, but overmuch much needs to beryllium done to extremity the suffering,” helium said.  

He added that the UN “will mobilize each its capacities to enactment the implementation of the statement and maximize its affirmative interaction connected the melodramatic humanitarian concern successful Gaza.”