Environmental issues and sustainable development

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed’s remarks at the High-Level Political Forum side event on peace and security and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Arab States region, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in New York today:

The interlinking nature of the Sustainable Development Goals represented an important opportunity to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and scale of future development efforts, speakers said today, as the Economic and Social Council wrapped up the first segment of its High-Level Political Forum.

Building on the momentum of the recent United Nations Ocean Conference, speakers today warned that, with the well-being of the world’s oceans at risk, humankind must turn the tide on its relationship with water bodies across the planet, as the Economic and Social Council’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development continued.

Speakers today voiced deep concern at the continued prevalence of the long‑standing — and often intersecting — challenges of gender discrimination and health inequality, as the Economic and Social Council’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development entered the third day of its annual session.

Beginning its review of progress made in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the High-Level Political Forum today took an in‑depth look at country-level efforts to achieve the first two Goals on the eradication of poverty and hunger.

The Economic and Social Council’s High-Level Political Forum tasked with reviewing progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development opened its second annual session today, with participants welcoming its focus on particular goals and targets, as well as its central theme of poverty eradication and the promotion of prosperity “in our changing world”.

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message to the Conference on Sand and Dust-Storms, in Tehran today:

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at the high-level Sustainable Development Goals Action Event, in New York today:

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the opening of a national conference on “Strengthening of Partnerships for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the Face of Current Challenges and Threats”, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 12 June 2017: