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Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si<\/em>,<\/i>\u00a0President of the 77th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the General Assembly<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n —-<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n SDG 6 Research and Innovation Marathon Relay (CÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵY event as part of NYC Water Week)<\/b><\/p>\n 20 March 2023<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n [As Delivered]<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to all of you,<\/p>\n As a runner, I like the idea of a race that involves partners, working together in sync to cross the finish line as a team.<\/p>\n As a global community \u2013 of governments, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ system, civil society, the private sector, scientists, academics and stakeholders of diverse backgrounds \u2013 we all are in a race against time.<\/p>\n Water touches every aspect of our lives.<\/p>\n Yet, our efforts to achieve SDG6 targets remain painfully off track.<\/p>\n Billions of people will lack access to basic clean water and sanitation services by 2030 unless we transform the way we understand and manage water.<\/p>\n The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference offers a prime opportunity for us to deliberate on SDG6 and its targets.<\/p>\n We are here to expand our thinking about water and a water secure future.<\/p>\n To identify the innovations that will readjust and accelerate our actions.<\/p>\n It is the moment to devise integrated solutions and practical plans.<\/p>\n I am confident that, at the end of this water conference, that will start after tomorrow, we can deliver the \u201cNew York Moment\u201d.<\/p>\n A moment that will be on scale with the \u201cParis Moment\u201d following the landmark climate change talks in 2015.<\/p>\n What would this moment include?<\/p>\n We need to reframe our questions and answers.<\/p>\n We need transformative agendas.<\/p>\n We need game changers that boost cooperation across our entire SDG framework.<\/p>\n And, finally, we need conscious and focused political action.<\/p>\n Since my first day in office, I\u2019ve been encouraging all our partners to come to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference this week with ambitious, forward-looking commitments.<\/p>\n There are a few game-changing ideas already being discussed, for example:<\/p>\n decoupling water consumption and food production,<\/p>\n integrating water and climate policies at national and global levels,<\/p>\n creating a Global Water Information System for better data to improve water management and resilience,<\/p>\n providing Early Warnings for All to safeguard lives and livelihoods, and<\/p>\n establishing a water education network around the world to support capacity development, especially in Africa.<\/p>\n Some of these gamechangers were identified during extensive consultations organized by my Office last October.<\/p>\n Many thanks to all of you who participated.<\/p>\n More broadly, in the General Assembly we are working to strengthen the science-policy interface:<\/p>\n We are organizing science briefings on topics related to our negotiation tracks, including water.<\/p>\n We are designing a validation mechanism for sustainable development, which is still largely missing in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ system, unfortunately.<\/p>\n Our next set of briefings will focus on the \u201cBeyond GDP\u201d model that could measure the well-being of not only the economies, but of our societies and nature, too.<\/p>\n It matters what we measure and how, and I invite you all to share your ideas.<\/p>\n In these discussions, we need all voices \u2013 all the knowledge we have on our planet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Like a marathon, tackling the water crisis requires endurance.<\/p>\n Here in New York, we look forward to welcoming Australian ultramarathoner Mina Guli on 23 March \u2013 World Water Day.<\/p>\n She will be completing her 200th<\/sup>\u00a0marathon in the span of a year to raise awareness of the world\u2019s water crisis, having run in some of the most water-stressed areas across the globe.<\/p>\n She is right when she says, \u201cevery single one of us can make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n I am encouraged to see your interest and engagement.<\/p>\n I do not want to beguile you by promises: the New York Moment we are hoping for, will be just the beginning of our great race.<\/p>\n As you start your marathon, I wish you a fruitful run ahead.<\/p>\n When you cross the finish line, it will be a victory for all of us.<\/p>\n Thank you very much indeed.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si,\u00a0President of the 77th\u00a0session of the General Assembly —- SDG 6 Research and Innovation Marathon Relay (CÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵY event as part of NYC Water Week) 20 March 2023 [As Delivered] Good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Csaba\u00a0K\u0151r\u00f6si<\/em>,<\/i>\u00a0President of the 77th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the General Assembly<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n ----<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n Second informal consultations convened by the co-facilitators on the<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>political declaration to be adopted by the SDG Summit in September 2023<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n 16 March 2023<\/b><\/b><\/p>\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nExcellencies, esteemed colleagues,\r\n\r\nI thank the co-facilitators, Ambassador Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani of Qatar and Ambassador Fergal Mythen of Ireland for the invitation.\r\n\r\nFergal, happy St. Patrick\u2019s Day to you!\r\n\r\nDear Alya and Fergal, I am sincerely grateful to you for your work leading this process, and in particular the preparation of the elements paper circulated to MS on 28 February.\r\n\r\nThis paper is a good basis to start the discussion.\r\n\r\nI fully agree with the co-facilitators\u2019 call for the political declaration to be a consensual, concise, ambitious, action-oriented and transformative document.\r\n\r\nI have been particularly pleased by their emphasis on the need to have an ambitious and transformative outcome at the Summit.\r\n\r\nI am sure that, if we want to have such an outcome, we need transformative elements. We have to tell the world why and how the second half of the SDG implementation period will be more impactful and our pledges more credible.\r\n\r\nWe may think of what has been missing from the current implementation and reporting. If you wish, where are the Gamechangers \u2013 that will make our commitments more credible.\r\n\r\nI have in mind key building blocks such as \u201cBeyond GDP\u201d or the creation of the scientific evaluation system of the SDGs\u2019 implementation.\r\n\r\n\u201cBeyond GDP\u201d to measure the real transformation for which we had no real tool until now and Scientific Validation System\u00a0to make the data comparable and validate the aggregated impacts.\r\n\r\nI am very much encouraged by the positive feedback from Member States and various stakeholders on these proposals.\r\n\r\nLikewise, it will be useful and helpful to take into consideration the discussions and commitments that emanated or will, hopefully, emanate from several processes, such as the Transforming Education Summit, COP27, COP 15, the LDC5 Conference, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference, the Sendai Framework Mid-Term Review, the HLPF, and FfD.\r\n\r\nI am sure that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Water Conference as well as other upcoming meetings and ongoing processes will result in game-changers that can also find their place in the political declaration of the SDG Summit.\r\n\r\nThe SDG Summit will constitute the mid-point review of the implementation of the 17 Goals.\r\n\r\nMy vision for the SDG Summit is one of a meeting that serves to produce a quality change in our efforts to accelerate implementation at all levels.\r\n\r\nA quantum leap, if you wish.\r\n\r\nAn outcome to turbocharge implementation.\r\n\r\nFor that to happen, we need to go beyond repeating well-known affirmations, set out bold steps and demonstrate leadership at this critical time.\r\n\r\nThe outcome will provide guidance to many international platforms. organisations, including development, banks.\r\n\r\nLadies and gentlemen,\r\n\r\nThe stakes are huge. The real transformation is at stake.\r\n\r\nNot necessarily the relocation of some existing resources, not only, but to recalibrate the system of priorities and use the cooperation channels, national plans and resources accordingly.\r\n\r\nBefore the summit, we have to raise the level of transparency and honesty to review the lessons learnt from the past VNRs and look at where we can unlock new commitments, find new tools, and adopt innovative policies based on scientific inputs.\r\n\r\nI am greatly encouraged by the briefing of the Independent Group of Scientists on GSDR that took place on 7 February as a part of the first GA informal plenary briefing on \u201cScience-based Evidence in Support of the Sustainable Solutions\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe briefing from the IGS gave us a bedrock of scientific knowledge, a basis for unfolding this crucial negotiation process \u2013 and I would very much like to continue in this spirit.\r\n\r\nThat is why the second scientific informal plenary briefing will focus on \u201cBeyond GDP\u201d, \u201cFood Security and Sustainability Transformation\u201d and \u201cA Scientific Support System for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\u201d.\r\n\r\nIt will take place on 12 April at 10am in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.\r\n\r\nI invite you all to join us there.\r\n\r\nAs part of my commitment to hear from the civil society and motivate them to bring their contributions to the SDG Summit, I will convene my second Town Hall meeting with CSOs on 20 April at 10am.\r\n\r\nThe focus of this townhall will be on the need for accelerated progress towards the achievement of the SDGs by 2030.\r\n\r\nLet me thank the co-facilitators for kindly agreeing to participate in this Town Hall meeting.\r\n\r\nDear Friends,\r\n\r\nI wish you a fruitful discussion today and count on your support to ensure that we have a truly ambitious outcome.\r\n\r\nAn outcome that really helps us jointly transform the world.\r\n\r\nI thank you.\r\n\r\n\u00a0","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[575,561,562],"class_list":["post-251606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statements","tag-ceo-roundtable-discussion-on-a-gender-equal-future-of-work-in-the-digital-age","tag-commission-on-the-status-of-women","tag-csw","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n