The most recent SDSN report emphasises how crucial it is to have a United Nations 2.0—a reformated organization—before the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024. Given that present progress is worrisomely inadequate to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this is a crucial step to support global cooperation and investment for sustainable development.
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) produced the Sustainable Development Report (SDR), which emphasises how global the sustainable development challenge is. None of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 are on pace, according to the report—a sobering realisation that necessitates quick attention and action.
The report outlines solutions to overcome persistent deficits in SDG finance, prioritises upgrading the UN to meet 21st-century problems, and ranks all UN Member States with respect to the SDGs. Only around 16 percent of the SDG targets are making progress.
Given that only sixteen percent of the 2030 SDGs are predicted to be achieved, the world's present progress is expected to be terrible. The remaining 84% exhibit little to no progress or the opposite. Many important aims, such as Zero Hunger, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Life Below Water, Life on Land, and Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, have been badly misdirected by the inaction that has occurred since 2020.
The study also emphasises how different country groupings have achieved the SDGs at differing degrees. Richer and more disadvantaged countries are lagging behind in SDG performance, whereas the Nordic region leads and the BRICS countries are making significant strides.
One of the most pressing long-term investment challenges is reforming the global financial architecture. The paper highlights the need for inexpensive long-term finance for sustainable development goals in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, and it provides five ideas to alter the global financial architecture.
Barbados is placed top while the United States is ranked last in the report's ranking of nations according to how involved they are with the UN system.
Aiming to promote sustainable food and land systems, the study also describes the FABLE routes. Around the world, there are 600 million hungry people and rising obesity rates. The study highlights that in order to create sustainable food and land systems, adjustments must be made to overconsumption, protein intake, productivity, and monitoring.
Since 2016, all UN Member States' performance on the SDGs has been tracked and assessed using updated data from the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report. The SDG Transformation Center's impartial expert team wrote it. Vice President Guillaume Lafortune oversaw it, while Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the head of SDSN, directed it.
