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Thu Sep 19, 2019, 09:05 AM Sep 2019

UN Sustainable Development Goals On Track For . . . . 2073 As Summit Prep Concludes

The world is decades behind schedule to achieve ambitious goals to fight poverty, inequality and other ills, development experts warned on Wednesday, as global leaders prepared to meet to weigh their progress.

The high-level summit in New York next week will be the first to focus on the sustainable development goals since they were adopted by the United Nations four years ago. The 17 sustainable development goals, known as SDGs, set out a wide-ranging "to-do" list tackling conflict, hunger, land degradation, gender inequality and climate change by 2030.

Assessments of their progress have been bleak. On Wednesday the Social Progress Imperative, a U.S.-based nonprofit, said the goals were unlikely to be reached until 2073, more than four decades past their target date.

"Progress isn't fast enough to achieve the ambition of the SDGs within my lifetime, and that's a problem," said Michael Green, chief executive of the Imperative. "There are some countries that are going backwards and letting us down."

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