The United Nations Secretariat has released an advance version of the Secretary-General’s annual report on SDG progress. The report recommends actions to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and “rescue the SDGs.” It will inform discussions during the July 2022 session of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Published in May, the 2022 edition of the ‘Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ report is based on inputs from more than 50 international and regional organizations and on available data on the global indicators for the 17 SDGs.
By way of introduction, the report highlights the “multiple and interlinked global crises” the world is facing – COVID-19, the climate crisis, and ongoing violent conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. It warns that “years, or even decades, of development progress have been halted or reversed” as a result, and “the very viability of achieving the SDGs by 2030” is at risk.
Read the advance version of the report here.
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