UN General Assembly
2023

Urgency must guide our action. Delays in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are damaging the credibility of the system. We are halfway from where we need to be and a long way from reaching the Goals. According to some estimates, if the pace remains the same and the volume of finance remains unchanged, it will take another 63 years to get there. Almost a decade has passed since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Many commitments have been made since then, but unfortunately, we are in a worse situation today in which our countries have more needs now than they did a decade ago. To that end. the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared that a third of the world economy will be in recession by 2023. and for the first time, the United Nations Development Programme has also noted that the human development index is falling in nine out of ten countries.