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Despite Global Crises, Sustainable Development Goals ‘a Blueprint’ of Solutions For Healthy, Inclusive World, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Goalkeepers Event

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Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message to the Goalkeepers event:  “The Sustainable Development Goals and the future of progress in disruptive times”, in New York today:

Protecting Nature, Increasing Biodiversity Could Generate $10 Trillion per Year, Create 400 Million New Jobs, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Business Forum

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Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message to the seventh Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Business Forum, held virtually, today:

Promise of Declaration on Protecting Minority Rights Still Not Fulfilled, Speakers Tell High-Level Meeting Marking Adoption’s Thirtieth Anniversary

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Thirty years after its adoption by the General Assembly, the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities has yet to fulfil its promise, speakers stressed, during a high-level meeting today on the side lines of the Assembly’s general debate.

Gender Equality Essential for Sustainable Development, Deputy Secretary-General Says in Message to General Assembly Platform of Women Leaders

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Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s message for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Platform of Women Leaders:  “Transformative Solutions by Women Leaders to Today’s Interlinked Challenges”, in New York today:

Pointing to Record High Global Emissions, Deputy Secretary-General Urges Massive Investment in Renewables, at Climate Action Forum

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Following is the text of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s video message to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Regional Forum on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the Sustainable Development Goals, in Geneva today: