The United Nations is about to adopt the 2030 agenda.
(Baonghean) - United Nations member states on August 3 approved an agenda for sustainable development until 2030. This ambitious and comprehensive plan will be adopted next month during a meeting of heads of state.
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| The UN's new agenda aims at many goals such as sustainable development, hunger eradication, poverty reduction, socio-economic growth and environmental protection. Photo: UN |
The 29-page document will be presented for approval at the Sustainable Development Summit, which will be held from September 25 to 27 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, with the participation of more than 150 world leaders. This agenda sets out a plan of action with the recognition that “eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development”.
The agenda, which includes 17 goals and 169 targets, will be a plan for development over the next 15 years. According to the document, the purpose is to “build on the Millennium Development Goals and achieve what they have not achieved.”
The new agenda took two years to draft and was hailed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as “the people’s agenda, a plan of action to end poverty”. The Secretary-General also affirmed that together with the agreement reached in Addis Ababa last month to finance development goals, the agenda is the beginning of “a new era”.
In its declaration, the UN agenda outlines a plan for heads of state and government to “resolve, by 2030, to end poverty everywhere,” as well as promote economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection.
Thu Giang
(According to UN/Deutsche Welle)
