UN chief calls for joint efforts to advance SDGs

New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for joint efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He made the appeal in a video message to a high-level virtual meeting of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative.

“We are fast approaching the midpoint of the time available to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.

“I will be blunt: progress is in peril. COVID-19, a fragile and uneven global economic recovery, climate change, and conflicts are pushing our goals farther out of reach,” he said.