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Of the roughly 140 assessable data targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only about 15 percent are on track to be met by 2030, according to a Special Edition of the Sustainable Development Goals Report released today. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PRESSER
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DATELINE: 10 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

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RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1.Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

10 JULY 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2.Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, DESA:
“The picture of the whole progress is very sobering; we have to say that. Of the roughly 140 assessable data targets, the latest data shows that only about 15 percent are on track.”
4. Wide shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, DESA:
“So, under the counter trends, only about 1/3 of the countries will meet the target of halving the national poverty level by 2030. 600 million people would be facing hunger, 300 million children or young people who attend a school would leave unable to read or write. And it would take almost 286 years to close the gender gap in legal protection and to remove the discriminatory laws.”
6. Med shot, briefers on the stand
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, DESA:
“So despite this sobering assessment, this report also provides a source of hope. We can and we must turn things around. This report reminds us that we have the knowledge and the tools to deliver the transformations we need. It reiterates the urgent action priorities recommended by the Secretary General for delivering the much-needed rescue plan at the SDG Summit.”
8. Med shot, briefers on the stand
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Francesca Perucci, Assistant Director, Statistics Division, DESA:
“About half of the targets are moderately or severely off track and over 1/3 as seen either no movement at all or regressed below the 2015 baseline. Moreover, while the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be over, recovery has been slow and even incomplete reversal. Reversal in global health outcomes and education, as well as in the reduction of people living in extreme poverty.
10. Close up, journalist asking quesion
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Astra Bonini, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, DESA.
“The report does provide data that paints a picture of where we stand and it's not looking very promising, but it also is a source of detailed information about where we stand toward achieving the SDGs and gives practical guidance about how to deliver the finance, how to galvanize the leadership and restore the trust that will put us back on track to achieve the SDGs.”
12. Wide shot, briefing room

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Of the roughly 140 assessable data targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only about 15 percent are on track to be met by 2030, according to a Special Edition of the Sustainable Development Goals Report released today.

Briefing journalists in New York on Monday (10 July), the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Li Junhua, said that “the picture of the whole progress is very sobering.”

According to Junhua, “under the counter trends, only about 1/3 of the countries will meet the target of halving the national poverty level by 2030.”

The Under-Secretary-General added, “600 million people would be facing hunger, 300 million children or young people who attend a school would leave unable to read or write. And it would take almost 286 years to close the gender gap in legal protection and to remove the discriminatory laws.”

Despite this “sobering assessment”, Junhua explained that “this report also provides a source of hope.”

“We can and we must turn things around. This report reminds us that we have the knowledge and the tools to deliver the transformations we need. It reiterates the urgent action priorities recommended by the Secretary General for delivering the much needed rescue plan at the SDG Summit,” said the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.

Francesca Perucci, the Assistant Director of the Statistics Division at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), also briefed journalists, noting that “about half of the targets are moderately or severely off track and over 1/3 as seen either no movement at all or regressed below the 2015 baseline.”

Moreover, Perucci continued, “while the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be over, recovery has been slow and even incomplete reversal,” namely in global health outcomes, education, and extreme poverty.

The Senior Sustainable Development Officer at DESA’s Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Astra Bonini, said, “The report does provide data that paints a picture of where we stand and it's not looking very promising, but it also is a source of detailed information about where we stand toward achieving the SDGs and gives practical guidance about how to deliver the finance, how to galvanize the leadership and restore the trust that will put us back on track to achieve the SDGs.”

At the mid-way point towards 2030, the Special Edition puts forward five major recommendations to rescue the SDGs and accelerate implementation between now and 2030, for Member State consideration in advance of the SDG Summit.

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