NEW YORK-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has called on United Nations (UN) member states to double their efforts by engaging ‘extra gear’ if Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be attained come 2030.
Chakwera has said this in New York on Sunday, September 22, 2024 when he addressed the ‘Summit for the Future’ which was held under the theme: “transforming global governance and turbocharging the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development”
The summit was part of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) which is currently underway at the UN Headquarters, bringing together a total of 193 member states.
“As things stand, we are not likely to meet the targets we set for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), because we seem more interested in moving with speed in destroying the future than we are in replenishing.
“So now, we must reflect on the extra gear we need to engage between now and 2030 to sustain the hope of young people,” said the Malawi leader.
Chakwera said world over, sustainable development is untenable without sustainable financing, calling for urgency in remodeling development financing.
He clarified that by remodeling development financing, he meant financing facilities that are more robust, inclusive, and humane, as well as financing that will catalyze global development in developing countries.
“We must reconfigure multilateral institutions to create a new architecture of global finance, one that reduces the debt burden of developing countries,” said Chakwera.
He also told the gathering that the world must exploit demographic dividend by developing technical skills and harnessing the enormous potential of the youth in order to achieve the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Later during the day, President Chakwera is expected to preside over the Malawi Partners Conference which will be held under the theme “Securing our future: Enhancing investment in agriculture for sustainable food security.”