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DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
18 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers at dais, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President, Liberia:
“Our recommendations, if accepted and implemented, can lead to a future of improved global governance. They can ensure that the multilateral system is able to generate the resources and the political will to anticipate and manage risks. They envision a positive peace where investments are gradually shifted away from military spending to activities which will build more resilient and equitable societies.”
4. Wide shot, speakers at dais, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President, Liberia:
“We spotlight the UN Security Council as a critical institution but one with the greater profile of failure in a multilateral system. Calling for a charter review conference focused on Security Council reform, and we also call for a strengthened peacebuilding commission.”
6. Med shot, journalists, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefan Löfven, former Prime Minister, Sweden:
“Multilateralism can work, but we must do things better and faster. So, the aim of our people-centered recommendations is to support an accelerated implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Paris Agreement and other international frameworks.”
8. Med shot, journalists, briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefan Löfven, former Prime Minister, Sweden:
“If taken on board, our recommendations will unlock finance for the SDGs and climate action, and here we now need to start talking about trillions, not billions of dollars.”
10. Med shot, journalists, briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefan Löfven, former Prime Minister, Sweden:
“Either no one makes it or everyone, we all make it. So, we call on world leaders to come together at this year’s SDG Summit, next year’s Summit for the Future, and other Summits to ensure mutually assured survival. Let it be the moment in time that future generations will read about in their history books, that we took the right decisions; time was short, but we made it.”
12. Wide shot, speakers at dais, briefing room
A new report outlines an ambitious plan to strengthen the multilateral system, ensuring it is better positioned to address current and future challenges – from the climate crisis to rising inequality, lack of finance for sustainable development, and increasing threats to democracy and stability.
‘A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future,’ produced by the independent High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism (HLAB), includes comprehensive and detailed recommendations to strengthen the global architecture for peace, security, and finance, deliver just transitions for climate and digitalization, and ensure more equity and fairness in global decision-making.
It also argues that gender equality must be at the heart of a reinvigorated multilateral architecture, along with recommendations to ensure the multilateral system is more networked, inclusive, and effective.
Six transformational shifts frame A Breakthrough for People and Planet: Rebuilding trust in multilateralism – through inclusion and accountability; Regaining balance with nature and providing clean energy for all; Ensuring abundant and sustainable finance that delivers for all; Supporting a just digital transition that unlocks the value of data and protects against digital harms; Empowering effective, equitable collective security arrangements; Managing current and emerging transnational risks.
The HLAB was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in March 2022 and is supported by the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR).
The board is co-chaired by former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and former Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven.
The recommendations in the report were informed by a global public consultation and built on wide-ranging inputs from diverse stakeholders, including UN Member States, civil society, academia, youth, and the private sector, as well as input from entities across the UN system.
Speaking to reporters today (18 Apr), Sirleaf commented, “Our recommendations, if accepted and implemented, can lead to a future of improved global governance. They can ensure that the multilateral system is able to generate the resources and the political will to anticipate and manage risks. They envision a positive peace where investments are gradually shifted away from military spending to activities which will build more resilient and equitable societies.”
She also said, “We spotlight the UN Security Council as a critical institution but one with the greater profile of failure in a multilateral system. Calling for a charter review conference focused on Security Council reform, and we also call for a strengthened peacebuilding commission.”
Stefan Löfven also commented on the report’s launch, “Multilateralism can work, but we must do things better and faster. So, the aim of our people-centered recommendations is to support an accelerated implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Paris Agreement and other international frameworks.”
Löfven added, “If taken on board, our recommendations will unlock finance for the SDGs and climate action, and here we now need to start talking about trillions, not billions of dollars.”
He concluded, “Either no one makes it or everyone, we all make it. So, we call on world leaders to come together at this year’s SDG Summit, next year’s Summit of the Future, and other Summits to ensure mutually assured survival. Let it be the moment in time that future generations will read about in their history books, that we took the right decisions; time was short, but we made it.”
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres tasked the HLAB to advise Member States on issues of key global concern where governance improvements are most needed and to propose options for how those improvements could be achieved.
The advisory report, “A Breakthrough for People and Planet,” is the culmination of the Board’s work over the past 12 months.
It will inform ongoing deliberations at the United Nations in the lead-up to the 2024 Summit of the Future, where Member States will consider ways to lay the foundations for more effective global cooperation.
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