The 2023 New York SDG Summit Outcome: Rescue Plan for 2030 Agenda as a Wake-up Call for the Decision-makers

Q3 Social Sciences Environmental Policy and Law Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI:10.3233/epl-239006
Bharat H. Desai
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As a plenary organ of the UN, the General Assembly has invoked its principal instrumentality of resolutions to address a variety of global problems. The mirage of being called “recommendations” (Article 11, the UN Charter) has never come in the way of finesse with which the Assembly has invoked its resolutions to zero in on contemporary common concerns. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by resolution 70/1 (September 25, 2015) has been one such major global action plan that became a milestone in a long line of engagements that have also carried the normative halo. Now at the mid-way to the 15-year cycle (2015–2030), the performance assessment on 17 Goals shows that the promise of leaving “no one behind” is in peril. In view of the reality of the world we live in and multiple interconnected planetary scale crisis situations, the UN member states have floundered in giving effect to the promises laid down in the 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda. The UN Secretary-General’s report (April 27, 2023) has called for a resolute rescue plan for people and planet. The progress came to be reviewed at the SDG Summit convened by the UNGA President during September 18-19, 2023. The available data (Revised Zero Draft of June 8, 2023), underscored the gravity of the peril faced by the humankind since, out of 140 targets, “only about 12 per cent are on track; more than half, although showing some progress, are moderately or severely off track; and some 30 per cent have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline”. The Political Declaration adopted at the New York SDG Summit coinciding with the meeting of the High-Level Political Forum, sought to work out a rescue plan considering the UNSG’s stimulus plan and taken the “pledge to act now, for present and future generations”. This article examines the process, the promise, the pledge and the rescue plan for the SDGs in peril.
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2023 年纽约可持续发展目标峰会成果:为决策者敲响警钟的 2030 年议程拯救计划
作为联合国的全会机构,联大利用其决议这一主要工具来解决各种全球性问题。被称为 "建议"(《联合国宪章》第十一条)的海市蜃楼从未妨碍过联大援引其决议来解决当代共同关切的问题。第 70/1 号决议(2015 年 9 月 25 日)通过的 2030 年可持续发展目标(SDGs)就是这样一个重要的全球行动计划,它已成为一系列也带着规范光环的行动中的一个里程碑。如今,在 15 年周期(2015-2030 年)的中期,对 17 项目标的绩效评估表明,"不让一个人掉队 "的承诺岌岌可危。鉴于我们所生活的世界的现实和多个相互关联的地球规模的危机局势,联合国会员国在履行《2030 年议程》17 个目标中的承诺方面举步维艰。联合国秘书长的报告(2023 年 4 月 27 日)呼吁为人类和地球制定一项果断的拯救计划。联合国大会主席将在 2023 年 9 月 18-19 日召开的可持续发展目标峰会上审查进展情况。现有数据(2023 年 6 月 8 日修订的零草案)凸显了人类所面临危险的严重性,因为在 140 项目标中,"只有约 12% 的目标已步入正轨;一半以上的目标虽然取得了一些进展,但仍处于中度或严重偏离轨道的状态;约 30% 的目标要么毫无进展,要么倒退至 2015 年基线以下"。在纽约可持续发展目标峰会上通过的《政治宣言》与高级别政治论坛会议同时举行,旨在制定一项救援计划,其中考虑到了联合国秘书长的刺激计划,并做出了 "为了今世后代,现在就行动起来的承诺"。本文探讨了可持续发展目标的进程、承诺、保证和拯救计划。
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期刊介绍: This international journal is created to encourage the exchange of information and experience on all legal, administrative and policy matters relevant to the human and natural environment in its widest sense: air, water and soil pollution as well as waste management; the conservation of flora and fauna; protected areas and land-use control; development and conservation of the world"s non-renewable resources. In short, all aspects included in the concept of sustainable development. For more than two decades Environmental Policy and Law has assumed the role of the leading international forum for policy and legal matters relevant to this field. Environmental Policy and Law is divided into sections for easy accessibility.
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