He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
He was talking at UN Headquarters in New York, the place he introduced three new coverage briefs on these themes to Member States.
Severe challenges
“They contact on a number of the most severe challenges we face – challenges which will decide whether or not we’re capable of obtain the imaginative and prescient of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Growth Targets, or whether or not we proceed in direction of a way forward for continued social, monetary, political and environmental breakdown,” he stated.
The briefs are supposed to tell discussions forward of the crunch SDG Summit in September, marking the midpoint in direction of reaching the Targets, and the associated Summit of the Future subsequent yr.
They’re the newest in a sequence of 11 briefs based mostly on proposals contained in Our Common Agenda, the Secretary-Basic’s 2021 report that outlines a imaginative and prescient for future world cooperation and multilateral motion.
Equitable finance system
Mr. Guterres has regularly spoken about the necessity to reform the worldwide monetary structure to make it extra resilient, equitable, and accessible to all.
The present system, established underneath the Bretton Woods Settlement almost 80 years in the past – “when lots of as we speak’s creating and rising economies had been underneath colonial rule” – is meant to signify the world however doesn’t, he stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath additionally revealed how the system “largely failed” in fulfilling its core mandate as a monetary security internet, with many creating nations now going through deep monetary disaster and debt reduction at a standstill.
“Africa now spends extra on debt service prices than on healthcare,” he remarked.
© Unsplash/Kai Pilger
The Metropolis of London, a historic monetary district, in England.
Addressing historic injustices
The coverage transient units out proposals to handle historic injustices and systemic bias and covers six areas, together with world financial governance, debt reduction and the price of sovereign borrowing, and worldwide public finance.
“Total, the proposals within the transient are aimed toward shifting away from a system that advantages the wealthy and prioritizes short-term features, in direction of one that’s equitable, and invests up-front within the SDGs, local weather motion, and future generations,” he stated.
Measures put ahead embrace increasing the boards of the World Financial institution and the Worldwide Financial Fund “to strengthen the voice and illustration of creating nations”.
Oversight physique
There must also be “a consultant apex physique” overseeing your entire system, to boost its coherence and align priorities with the 2030 Agenda, in addition to a Debt Exercise Mechanism which might hyperlink growth financing with industrial collectors.
One other proposal requires “the huge scaling up of growth and local weather financing, partially by altering the enterprise mannequin of multilateral growth banks and remodeling their strategy to threat, to massively leverage personal finance at cheap value to creating nations.”
Going past GDP
Turning to the second coverage transient, Mr. Guterres famous that though GDP will proceed to be an necessary metric, it should be accompanied by different methods to measure progress.
“There’s a rising recognition that GDP overlooks human actions that maintain life and contribute to well-being, whereas putting disproportionate worth on those who injury us and deplete our planet,” he stated.
“Human progress is dependent upon many elements, from ranges of poverty and starvation, to inequality and social cohesion, and vulnerability to local weather breakdown and different shocks,” he defined.
© UNICEF/Bruno Pedro
In Mozambique’s Nampula province, youngsters paint a mural highlighting the unfavorable affect of kid marriage.
Mirror frequent values
The coverage transient first proposes that nations “make a political dedication to a conceptual framework that precisely values what issues for individuals, the planet, and the longer term.”
The objective could be on reaching three outcomes: a concentrate on well-being and company, respect for all times and the planet, and diminished inequalities, and creating associated metrics.
New indicators of progress
“GDP is concise. It summarizes data in an intuitive method that tells a narrative. However well-being, equality, and environmental sustainability can’t be addressed bya single snapshot,” Mr. Guterres stated, underlining the necessity for “a broader set of indicators to watch and analyse progress and acknowledge trade-offs and penalties”.
The coverage transient additional requires a large step-up in help to assist nations develop the information capability essential to make any new metrics operational, which may also enhance monitoring progress in direction of reaching the SDGs.
Higher digital cooperation
The ultimate transient proposes a imaginative and prescient for digital cooperation that’s anchored in human rights and protects in opposition to dangers and harms. It additionally underscores the necessity for a World Digital Compact, one of many suggestions within the Our Widespread Agenda report.
The transient comes at a time of “exponential acceleration” in expertise – together with in areas akin to Synthetic Intelligence (AI), deep fakes and bioengineering. On the identical time, entry stays unequal, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the meantime, management of digital applied sciences has introduced large wealth to a choose few people and firms. Governments and regulators have struggled to reply, resulting in lack of belief in regulatory establishments.
Unsplash/Markus Spiske
Info expertise has ‘leapt ahead’ over the previous 30 years.
Mitigate new tech dangers
The Secretary-Basic additionally pointed to the problem introduced by the rising and now widespread use of generative AI, akin to ChatGPT, the longer term affect of which is unclear.
He stated though AI might doubtlessly “turbocharge growth and productiveness”, together with in direction of reaching the SDGs, it additionally presents severe moral challenges.
World Digital Compact
“The prospect of additional technological progress now usually evokes concern moderately than hope,” he continued.
“There’s an pressing want for governments to come back collectively in a World Digital Compact, to mitigate the dangers of digital applied sciences, and establish methods to harness their advantages for the great of humanity.”
The Compact would supply a framework to align nationwide, regional and trade approaches round world priorities, rules and targets.
The transient additionally identifies areas for pressing world motion, together with scaling up entry, constructing digital public infrastructure and supporting public administrations to manage expertise.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his proposal for a Excessive-Stage Advisory Physique for Synthetic Intelligence to overview AI governance preparations in order that they’ll align with human rights, the rule of regulation and the frequent good.
Coverage transient replace
The Secretary-Basic has been releasing a sequence of coverage briefs that provide extra element on a number of the proposals contained in Our Common Agenda.
Eight out of 11 have been revealed thus far, masking themes akin to performing now for future generations, youth engagement in decision-making course of, strengthening international response to complex global shocks, and harnessing the advantages of outer space for all humanity.
