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INTRODUCTION
The recent confluence of crises – the COVID-19 pandemic, violent conflicts, and climate change – has caused severe setbacks to central objectives of social development, such as poverty eradication, employment generation, inequality reduction, and building inclusive societies. People and societies in vulnerable situations have been hit the hardest by the converging crises.
There are indications that shocks and crises are becoming ever more frequent, severe, and far-reaching – driven by the worsening effects of climate change, the growing probability of pandemics, growing geopolitical tensions, and increasingly dense global networks of trade, finance and transport. The…
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INTRODUCTION
The capacity of Governments to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been tested in all countries. The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 underlined that the uneven and slow progress on the SDGs since 2016 was further undermined by the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent crises. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 has confirmed that countries are severely off track to achieve the SDGs. Progress on a number of SDG targets has stalled or suffered a reversal. Most targets are not on track to be achieved by 2030, and progress does not seem fast enough for the few targets that are closer to being met. Recent crises have also…
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BACKGROUND
In the lead up to the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit (18-19 September, New York), the Secretary-General urged all Member States and stakeholders to present forward looking commitments to accelerate sustainable development in the coming years. A total of 39 Member States and 1 non-member observer state submitted 141 commitments via the SDG Summit Acceleration and Accountability Platform. This policy brief reviews these national commitments from the 2023 SDG Summit, focusing on how countries are translating the leaving no one behind (LNoB) concept into different policies across various country settings.
PROFILE OF COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO LNOB
During the 2023…