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UN / SDGS 2016 REPORT

At the launch of the first-ever Sustainable Development Goals report on the new global development agenda adopted last year, the Assistant Secretary-General Thomas Gass, said the report “provides an opportunity to reflect on where we are and where we need to focus our efforts to make this ambitious and transformative agenda a reality for all.” UNIFEED-UNTV
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STORY: UN / SDGS 2016 REPORT
TRT: 01:57
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Close up, UN flag

20 JULY 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, presser
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs:
“We have the chance to truly set the world on a different sustainable path leaving no one behind. The annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides an opportunity to reflect on where we are and where we need to focus our efforts to make this ambitious and transformative agenda a reality for all.”
4. Close up, report
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs:
“The report shows that about 800 million people around the world still live in extreme poverty and hunger. 5.9 million children die before they reach age five. 59 million children of primary school age are out of school. 2.4 billion people still lack improved sanitation facilities, and the births of one in two children under age five in the least developed countries go unrecorded. However, the analysis also shows that with concerted global, regional, national and local efforts, progress is possible.”
7. Med shot, journalist reading the report
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs:
“We had 22 countries that volunteered to be the first ones to present their progress and some of them were very candid about some of the weaknesses, including in their own territories. As there is more comfort with this system of national reviews we hope of course that it becomes such a culture that then everyone will participate.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. Wide shot, end of presser

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At the launch of the first-ever Sustainable Development Goals report on the new global development agenda adopted last year, the Assistant Secretary-General Thomas Gass, today (20 July) said the report “provides an opportunity to reflect on where we are and where we need to focus our efforts to make this ambitious and transformative agenda a reality for all.”

Gass, who is the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, said “the report shows that about 800 million people around the world still live in extreme poverty and hunger. 5.9 million children die before they reach age five. 59 million children of primary school age are out of school. 2.4 billion people still lack improved sanitation facilities, and the births of one in two children under age five in the least developed countries go unrecorded.”

However, he added, “the analysis also shows that with concerted global, regional, national and local efforts, progress is possible.”

Gass noted that 22 countries had volunteered “to be the first ones to present their progress and some of them were very candid about some of the weaknesses, including in their own territories.”

He said that “as there is more comfort with this system of national reviews we hope of course that it becomes such a culture that then everyone will participate.”

The UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), opened on 11 July and ends today at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Forum is the UN’s central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted last September by 193 Member States.

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