UN Deputy Secretary-General, Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed, has expressed optimism that there is still hope for developing countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs by 2030.
The SDGs are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.
The UN General Assembly set the goals in 2015 with a target date of attainment fixed at 2030.
Fielding questions on the possibility of achieving the SDGs, Mohammed stressed to the Newsmen in New York the goals were achievable.
She said with sustained investments and political will, developing countries could achieve the SDGs in spite of high debt profiles, mass illiteracy, poor health infrastructure, COVID-19 and poor performance in child rights.
Earlier, Mohammed said without immediate policy action, the window for delivering the SDGs by 2030 would close.
