  {"id":109057,"date":"2023-04-25T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=109057"},"modified":"2023-04-25T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:34:28","slug":"media-advisory-un-chief-calls-for-fundamental-shift-to-put-world-back-on-track-to-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2023\/04\/media-advisory-un-chief-calls-for-fundamental-shift-to-put-world-back-on-track-to-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Chief calls for fundamental shift to put world back on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Chief calls for fundamental shift to put world back on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Press briefing on 26 April, 12:30 pm EDT<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #046b99\">Follow live on <a style=\"color: #046b99\" href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ WebTV\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has recommended \u00a0five major areas for urgent, transformative action as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, a creaking economy and climate-related disasters continue to wreak havoc on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These recommendations come as preparations are already under way for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/conferences\/SDGSummit2023\">the SDG Summit<\/a> in September 2023, a critical turning point for mobilizing the political commitment and action needed to advance the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ DESA) will brief journalists on these policy recommendations coming out of the forthcoming Special Edition of the Sustainable Development Goals Report that the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Secretary-General will present to Member States today, Tuesday, 25 April.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #046b99\"><strong>WHAT<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Press briefing<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #046b99\"><strong>WHO<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Navid Hanif<\/strong>, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ DESA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astra Bonini<\/strong>, Senior Sustainable Development Officer, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ DESA<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #046b99\"><strong>WHEN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Wednesday, 26 April, 12:30 pm EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #046b99\">WHERE<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Press Briefing Room, S-237 \u00a0(Live on <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/\">webtv.un.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The draft report will be available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/conferences\/SDGSummit2023\">www.un.org\/en\/conferences\/SDGSummit2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hashtags: #SDGs #GlobalGoals<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Media contacts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Birch, <\/strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Global Communications, <a href=\"mailto:birchs@un.org\">birchs@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Rosengren, <\/strong>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, <a href=\"mailto:rosengrenh@un.org\">rosengrenh@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Chief calls for fundamental shift to put world back  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}