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STORY: UNGA79 / SDG MOMENT 2024
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DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
1. Various shots, United Nations flag outside UN Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Med shot, Secretary-General António Guterres, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, and the
President of the General Assembly Philémon Yang
4. Wide shot, Guterres walks up to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Sustainable Development Goals represent a bold vision, a commitment to a better, healthier, safer, and more prosperous and sustainable future. But the goals are facing massive headwinds. More than four out of five SDG targets are off track.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The world has the wealth, the technology, and the know how to achieve the SDGs. Last September's SDG summit included consensus around an SDG stimulus of at least 500 billion US dollars per year in financing for developing countries and the need for global financial architecture reform.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Crashing debt and inefficient tax systems are starving investments in health, education, and food in many developing countries. The Pact for the Future includes support for the SDG stimulus and global financial architecture reform to help ease the debt crisis of so many developing countries.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It is time for a rapid and just phase out of fossil fuels and the rapid and smart scale up of renewables to drive sustainable development, energy security, and economic prosperity. We must fairly and sustainably meet the global demand for critical minerals that can power the renewables revolution. And the panel on critical energy transition minerals has provided important recommendations to do this. Protecting development gains from climate upheaval is also critical.”
12. Med shot, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada:
“Climate change is hitting absolutely everything around us. The costs of extreme weather impacts are going through the roof, the changes to migrations, the pressures on communities, on countries, that's going to come from a changing planet and a change in climate are going to be massive challenges that we have to meet. The way we used to do things is no longer going to serve humanity the way it did before. We have to start shifting long-term, and that means understanding that taking real, concrete action on climate change is not something that is expensive to do now, or difficult to do now, because it's moral. It's actually the cheapest way of making sure we have a better future.”
14. Wide shot, Trudeau leaves the stage
Secretary-General António Guterres today (24 Sep) said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “are facing massive headwinds,” as “crashing debt and inefficient tax systems are starving investments in health, education and food in many developing countries.”
Speaking at an SDG Moment event, Guterres said the goals “represent a bold vision, a commitment to a better, healthier, safer and more prosperous and sustainable future,” but acknowledged that “more than four out of five SDG targets are off track.”
He stressed that “the world has the wealth, the technology, and the know how to achieve the SDGs.”
“Crashing debt and inefficient tax systems,” the Secretary-General said, “are starving investments in health, education and food in many developing countries.” The Pact for the Future, he added “includes support for the SDG stimulus and global financial architecture reform to help ease the debt crisis.”
Guterres said, “it is time for a rapid and just phase out of fossil fuels and the rapid and smart scale up of renewables to drive sustainable development, energy security, and economic prosperity.”
He also emphasized that “we must fairly and sustainably meet the global demand for critical minerals that can power the renewables revolution,” and added that “protecting development gains from climate upheaval is also critical.”
Also speaking at the event, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “climate change is hitting absolutely everything around us. The costs of extreme weather impacts are going through the roof, the changes to migrations, the pressures on communities, on countries, that's going to come from a changing planet and a change in climate are going to be massive challenges that we have to meet. The way we used to do things is no longer going to serve humanity the way it did before. We have to start shifting long-term, and that means understanding that taking real, concrete action on climate change is not something that is expensive to do now, or difficult to do now, because it's moral. It's actually the cheapest way of making sure we have a better future.”
Building on the momentum from the 2023 SDG Summit and the outcomes of the Summit of the Future, the fourth SDG Moment aimed to highlight inspiring examples of progress from around the world and emphasize the role of political leadership, SDG investment, and global partnerships in achieving food systems transformation, the renewable energy shift, and expanded digital connectivity.
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