Under en temadebat i FN om de næste globale udviklingsmål har FN-topfolk gjort det klart, at medlemslandene må til lommerne, hvis de vil virkeliggøre en verden uden ekstrem fattigdom i 2030. Regningen anslås til mellem 800 og 900 milliarder kr. hvert andet år. Mindst.
NEW YORK, 9 February 2015 (UN News Service): The world has embarked on a “crucial last stretch” to the post-2015 development agenda (dagsorden 2030, red.) and towards securing a sustainable future for all, UN Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson declared Monday.
He added that the international community would finally have a chance to provide “a life of dignity” for millions of people.
“There are high expectations that the UN and its Member States will be a catalyst for setting the direction for transformative change,” Mr. Eliasson said at a High-Level Thematic Debate on Means of Implementation for a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda.
“You, the Member States, are on the final stretch of an historic journey to define the content of an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.”
President of the General Assembly, Sam Kutesa, warned that the additional funding needed to eradicate extreme poverty ranged from 135 billion US dollar to 195 billion every two years.
On top of it, investments required in critical infrastructure projects spanning transport, energy, water and sanitation are estimated to cost between five and seven trillion (billioner) dollar per year.
(En billion er tusind milliarder, red.)
As a result, he said, it is clear that the resources required remained “enormous” and would have to be “mobilized from all sources” – domestic (nationale) and external (internationale) to public and private.
Tre milepæle i 2015
Addressing the debate which opened Monday and will wrap up Tuesday at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Eliasson reminded delegates that 2015 would witness the marking of “three major milestones”.
They are:
1) the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July;
2) the post-2015 summit scheduled for New York, in September; and
3) a critical UN climate conference (COP 21) set for December in Paris.
As momentum builds towards these events, he continued, Member States will be pressed to answer how they plan “to deliver on these ambitious goals.”
“It is clear that today’s financing and investment patterns will not deliver sustainable development – even though current global savings are actually sufficient to finance sustainable development needs,” Mr. Eliasson explained.
“Intensified international cooperation on many fronts and in new ways is needed to change the way finance for development works”, added the former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Social Democratic cabinet of Prime Minister Göran Persson.
Mange fremskridt under 2015 Målene
This year marks wrap up of the landmark UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs = 2015 Målene), which world leaders agreed on 15 years ago – se http://www.2015.dk
There has been significant progress in meeting the targets. For example,
* global poverty has been halved well ahead of the 2015 deadline;
* in developing countries, 90 per cent of children now enjoy primary education;
* the number of people lacking access to improved drinking water has halved, and
* the fight against malaria and tuberculosis has shown results, according to the UN.
Men meget mangler på færden mod 2030
Nevertheless, challenges persist, and with the deadline of the MDGs set for the end of this year, the UN will craft a new set of targets known as the sustainable development goals (SDGs = dagsorden 2030).
Globally, 73 million young people are looking for work and many more are trapped in exploitative jobs (hvor de udnyttes, red.).
In recent years, more than two and a half million more children in affluent (velstående) countries fell into poverty, bringing the total above 76 million.
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