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3 Aug 2015
Jubilant UN member states put the finishing touches to a hugely ambitious roadmap aimed at wiping out poverty worldwide by 2030 and taking on climate change (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani) |
United
Nations (United States) (AFP) - Jubilant UN member states put the finishing
touches to a hugely ambitious roadmap aimed at wiping out poverty worldwide by
2030 and taking on climate change.
United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lauded the hard-fought agreement, saying
it "encompasses a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that
heralds an historic turning point for our world."
After a
week of heated negotiations at UN headquarters in New York, experts and
diplomats from the 193 member states adopted a draft about 30 pages long
entitled "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development."
To cheers,
Kenyan Ambassador Macharia Kamau called it "really a historic
moment." Kenya chaired the negotiations along with Ireland.
World
leaders will attend a Sustainable Development Summit at the UN September 25-27
to adopt a sustainable agenda document, firing the starting gun on efforts to
improve the lives of one billion people living on less than $1.25 a day, mainly
in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Negotiators
set out 17 new sustainable development goals seeking to end poverty, promote
wellbeing and safeguard the environment -- all by 2030.
"This
is the People’s Agenda, a plan of action for ending poverty in all its dimensions,
irreversibly, everywhere, and leaving no one behind," proclaimed Ban of
the multitrillion-dollar initiative.
The UN
chief vowed that the September summit, on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly, "will chart a new era of sustainable development in which
poverty will be eradicated, prosperity shared and the core drivers of climate
change tackled."
The new
2015-2030 Sustainable Development Goals builds on the success of the Millennium
Development Goals, which helped drag millions out of poverty.
But the new
drive will go significantly further, targeting the causes of poverty and the
need for development that works for all people.
Funding the
massive effort will be key to its success and last month donor nations
confirmed they aim to set aside 0.7 percent of gross national income for
development aid, after several days of at-times fractious talks between rich
nations and developing countries.
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