The United Nations Network of Economists urged this Thursday (17.09.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX) to make urgent political interventions to reverse major problems, result of human activity affecting humanity.
According to the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) entitled Setting the trends of our time, global efforts to put the world on a more sustainable and prosperous path will be frustrated unless necessary steps are taken now.
The study considers that the climate change; demographic changes, in particular population ageing; urbanisation; the emergence of digital technologies; and inequalities, his "megatrends» that will shape the world in the course of this century.
The report warns that five years into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda, progress is already off track, and in many cases, may have been reversed by the Covid-19 crisis.
Political commitments are not translated into action and although sustainable finance is increasing, it is not doing so quickly enough, the authors regret.
"The change in our behaviour and mentality has not yet matched our sustainable development ambitions," they said.
The study was published on the eve of the 75th United Nations Assembly in 2020 with the purpose of urging a new holistic way of designing public policies in the next years.
The text advocates a Greater cooperation in seemingly unrelated areas such as digitalisation, urban planning and energy production, which are traditionally addressed in isolation.
«A better and fairer society can emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic if globally coordinated action is taken to address fragilities within and between nations to ensure prosperity for all."said UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi, who contributed to the report.
Without an overhaul of current disjointed policymaking, achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals – 15-year global targets to improve the lives of people everywhere – is highly unlikely, the United Nations Network of Economists study concludes.
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