Brasilia. The objectives set worldwide for sustainable development are on the way to becoming a great collective failure, declared this Sunday the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, alluding to the slowness with which countries apply the measures.
In a speech at the Future Summit, at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN), Lula also called for a reform of multilateral organizations, arguing that the General Assembly of this body has “lost its vitality,” the Council Security Council “ignores the atrocities” and the Global South is not represented in a manner commensurate with its political and economic weight.
The president stated that it is unacceptable that the world goes backwards on issues such as gender equality, the fight against racism and other types of discrimination or that it naturalizes that people go hungry. He defended that countries should not go back on the multilateral commitments they have signed.
“The Sustainable Development Goals were the greatest diplomatic endeavor of recent years and are on their way to becoming our greatest collective failure. At the current pace of implementation, only 17 percent of the goals of the 2030 Agenda will be achieved on time,” he stated. .
For Lula, current levels of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and climate financing are insufficient to keep the planet safe.
The Future Summit precedes the UN General Assembly, which begins on Tuesday, and brings together world leaders to discuss actions to strengthen cooperation between countries in areas such as sustainability, democracy, technology, security and governance.
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