By Amy Musgrave
The next five presidencies of the G20 must focus their efforts on accelerating progress towards attaining the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
South Africa assumes the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025. This is approximately five years before the deadline of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
“At the launch of the Special Edition of the Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report on 25 April 2023, the Secretary-General drew attention to the gravity of the situation.
“Just 12% of the SDG targets are on track. Progress on 50% is weak and insufficient. On more than 30% of the SDGs we have stalled or gone into reverse.
If we are to meet the 2030 deadline a paradigm shift is necessary,” Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.
He was addressing the 2nd foreign ministers meeting of the G20 in New York.
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