The UN General Assembly on Monday adopted a political declaration to accelerate action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are woefully off-track toward their 2030 deadline.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is among the leaders that adopted the political declaration to accelerate the 17 goals.
The political declaration includes a commitment to financing for developing countries and clear support for his proposal for an SDG Stimulus of at least 500 billion US dollars annually, as well as an effective debt-relief mechanism.
It also calls for changing the business model of multilateral development banks to offer private finance at more affordable rates for developing countries, and endorses reform of the international finance architecture which he has labelled “outdated, dysfunctional and unfair.
Speaking at the opening of the high-level forum on SDGs at UN headquarters in New York, UN Secretary General…