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STORY: UN / SDG POLITICAL FORUM CLOSER
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
18 JULY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We see important progress in a number of areas around the world – reducing maternal and child mortality, expanding basic education, improving access to electricity and more. But your discussions have also made clear that we are lagging or even backtracking in other areas that are fundamental to our shared pledge to leave no one behind.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Education is essential, as a critical tool for empowerment, for advancing gender equality and decent work for all, and for changing the way we produce, consume and live.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We must acknowledge that Paris is not enough. The economic and social transformation needed to stay well below 2 degrees, requires nothing short of an industrial and energy revolution and we are not yet there.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Countries must do everything to mobilize internal resources. But the international community must do all it can to make sure they support countries in this effort by fighting illicit flows of capital. money laundering and tax evasion.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We need to harness the benefits of advanced technologies for all. Last week I announced a new High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation that will focus on this challenge. And finally, we must further strengthen institutions. This was apparent both in the Goals reviewed this year, and in the Voluntary National Reviews. For peaceful and inclusive societies, we need justice, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, and participation – principles that institutions should follow to deliver the 2030 Agenda, to realize all human rights and to strengthen the trust on which social cohesion is build.”
13. Wide shot, applause
At the closing of a High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development today (18 Jul) at United Nations Headquarters, Secretary-General António Guterres said “important progress” has been achieved around the world towards the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda, but “we are lagging or even backtracking in other areas that are fundamental to our shared pledge to leave no one behind.”
The Secretary-General stressed the need to engage young people and said, “education is essential, as a critical tool for empowerment, for advancing gender equality and decent work for all, and for changing the way we produce, consume and live.”
On climate change, he said “we must acknowledge that Paris is not enough. The economic and social transformation needed to stay well below 2 degrees, requires nothing short of an industrial and energy revolution and we are not yet there.”
On funding gaps for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) investments, he said “countries must do everything to mobilize internal resources. But the international community must do all it can to make sure they support countries in this effort by fighting illicit flows of capital. money laundering and tax evasion.”
The Secretary-General said, “we need to harness the benefits of advanced technologies for all” and pointed to last week’s announcement of the creation of a new High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
Finally, he said “we must further strengthen institutions,” adding that “for peaceful and inclusive societies, we need justice, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, and participation – principles that institutions should follow to deliver the 2030 Agenda, to realize all human rights and to strengthen the trust on which social cohesion is build.”
A draft ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the 2018 session of the Economic and Social Council and the high-level political forum on sustainable development was adopted at the end of the session.
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