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Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “the one framework that no one argues but everyone can see themselves in,” are “good for people, good for the planet that we live on.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / SDG PRESSER
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 15 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

14 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, SDG Pavilion
3. Med shot, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, Special
Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action Selwin Hart, and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Navid Hanif
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We do still see our conflicts, our climate, unconstitutional changes in government, and still the inability for us to come back from the COVID crisis that we had. And we still believe that the best way to prevent and tackle these challenges is the one framework that no one argues but everyone can see themselves in, and that the investments are related to every one of those 17 goals in our sustainable development pledge to agenda 2030. Good for people, good for the planet that we live on.”
5. Wide shot, dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Globally, we see that 15 percent is what we've been able to do on the targets. It's abysmal. It's a sobering fact that we will come into in the General Assembly, huge implications for everyone. And it is a failure of ours to tackle global inequalities, our triple planetary crisis, but we do have and we see more division and we see the gender equality hundreds of years away, and more displacement and instability around the world. But the week is about turning things around. We've got the tools, what we need to come to us with much more determination with those solutions on how we can get this done.”
7. Wide shot, dais
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP):
“The temptation is yes, to say the SDGs they are at halftime, they haven't changed the world, turned it upside down. Therefore, are they losing relevance? I think you will be wrong. I think it would be a misjudgment. Take a look at what is happening on the ground. I yesterday had a delegation from Japan. In Japan, the SDGs remain a central reference point for the future strategy of Japan as a society and economy. It's called Japan 5.0. I could take you to the Africa Climate Summit that just was hosted by Kenya, in Nairobi, bringing together African nations to articulate a way forward that doesn't just take SDG 13, but takes SDG seven, SDG one, and creates a vision of how Africa can actually drive on the development in an era of climate change.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP):
“The development we want is not feasible right now. Instead, we have to take the growth we can get, and it is at that interface between sustainable development, the 2030 Agenda and the harsh economic and fiscal realities that the future of the SDGs will play out.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser

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Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today (15 Sep) said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), “the one framework that no one argues but everyone can see themselves in,” are “good for people, good for the planet that we live on.”

Talking to journalists at the temporary SDG Pavilion on the UN Headquarters North Lawn, Mohamed said, “we do still see our conflicts, our climate, unconstitutional changes in government, and still the inability for us to come back from the COVID crisis that we had. And we still believe that the best way to prevent and tackle these challenges is the one framework that no one argues but everyone can see themselves in, and that the investments are related to every one of those 17 goals in our sustainable development pledge to agenda 2030. Good for people, good for the planet that we live on.”

World leaders and up to 5000 partners from, civil society, the private sector, academia, and major stakeholder groups are expected next week at UN Headquarters in New York for the SDG Summit and High-Level Week of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78).

Mohammed said, “globally, we see that 15 percent is what we've been able to do on the targets. It's abysmal. It's a sobering fact that we will come into in the General Assembly, huge implications for everyone.”

She said, “the week is about turning things around,” adding, “we've got the tools, what we need to come to us with much more determination with those solutions on how we can get this done.”

Achim Steiner, the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said, “the temptation is yes, to say the SDGs they are at halftime, they haven't changed the world, turned it upside down. Therefore, are they losing relevance? I think you will be wrong. I think it would be a misjudgment.”

Steiner said, “the development we want is not feasible right now. Instead, we have to take the growth we can get, and it is at that interface between sustainable development, the 2030 Agenda and the harsh economic and fiscal realities that the future of the SDGs will play out.”

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