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STORY: UN / COVID-19 2030 AGENDA
TRT: 02:50
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JUNE 2020, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global context of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The global economy is stumbling, facing the biggest and deepest recession since the global depression. Unemployment rates have been rising, inequality has been rising, public debt is mounting, and there is a serious risk that we will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on time because of the crisis”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Fourie, CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Co-chair of the Secretary-General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD):
“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary action. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was envisaged as very much a blue plan, a blueprint for a better world, a kinder, fairer, more just world. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us unequivocally just how critical this is, as well as how urgent it is. The coronavirus is more than an epidemiological contagion, it’s an economic one. An economic one that has potentially catastrophic consequences for the 2030 Agenda and indeed for our dreams of a sustainable world.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leila Fourie, CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Co-chair of the Secretary-General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD):
“It is crucial that the various stakeholders and players across business, government and civil society, and organizations like the UN, come together to find common ground and to take strong action if we are to see the progress and the momentum that we need to see to achieve the SDGs.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
“This crisis reminded us of the cost of not taking the SDGs seriously. Only one of them, SDG 3, about health and lack of investment in preparedness, is very much responsible for this kind of great deal of discrepancy of response to the health shock. So, I think it’s a good way of reminding us taking the serious investment we require to achieve the SDGs; investments in health and education and to human capital, investments in infrastructure including digital solutions, and investments in resilience including climate.”
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The Special Envoy on Financing for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Mahmoud Mohieldin, today (10 Jun) said “there is a serious risk that we will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on time” because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Briefing reporters via teleconference, following an extraordinary meeting of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD), Mohieldin said the crisis “has changed the global context of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals” due to the economic repercussions of the pandemic, including rising unemployment, inequality, and public debt.
Joining Mohieldin, the CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Co-chair of the Secretary-General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance (GISD), Leila Fourie, said “extraordinary times call for extraordinary action” adding that the COVID-19 pandemic economic effect “has potentially catastrophic consequences for the 2030 Agenda and indeed for our dreams of a sustainable world.”
Fourie said, “it is crucial that the various stakeholders and players across business, government and civil society, and organizations like the UN, come together to find common ground and to take strong action if we are to see the progress and the momentum that we need to see to achieve the SDGs.”
Mohieldin said the crisis “reminded us of the cost of not taking the SDGs seriously.”
He said “serious investment” will be required to achieve the SDGs, including “investments in health and education and to human capital, investments in infrastructure including digital solutions, and investments in resilience including climate.”
