13 February 2025 - As the clock ticks toward 2030, parliamentarians gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday to assess the state of the Sustainable Development Goals () ¨C and the verdict was anything but unanimous.
Amid deepening global debt, taxation disputes and a widening gap between ambition and action, tensions flared over how (and whether) the SDGs can still be salvaged.
The meeting, themed Scaling up Action for the Sustainable Development Goals: Finance, Institutions and Politics, underscored the urgency of rebooting the 2030 Agenda.
¡°We are far behind from where we need to be on almost every single one of the SDGs,¡± said Phil¨¦mon Yang.
With only 17 percent of SDG targets reportedly on track, the discussions revealed sharp divides over priorities and outlook.
Some called for renewed commitment; others questioned whether the goals should be replaced entirely.
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