UN General Assembly
2023

of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP) is an unmissable opportunity to agree solutions to address the perilous gaps in implementation, accelerate climate action and ramp up ambition. The just-concluded high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the General Assembly revealed the dire reality that we face. The refusal of developed countries to. so far. raise the ambition on the means of implementation is disappointing. That must change. The fourth International Conference on Financing for Development is an important opportunity to forge a new financing pact for sustainable development. While the implementation of the SDGs occurs at the local level, and Governments bear primary responsibility for national development, we should be clear: achieving the SDGs is the shared responsibility of all countries. The SDGs are a bulwark against conflict and insecurity, the pull of migration and social instability.