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United Nations launches framework to speed up progress on water and sanitation goal | |
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2020-07-10 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
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正文(英文) | Press release UN-Water New York, 9 July—The UN announced new plans to accelerate progress to achieve the water and sanitation-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a special event today. UN-Water announced the creation of a new framework to better support countries over the next ten years to help them meet the targets for SDG 6, which calls for ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Progress on Goal 6 is alarmingly off track. According to the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 there are 2.2 billion people around the world who still lack safely managed drinking water, including 785 million without basic drinking water. And while the population using safely managed sanitation services increased from 28 per cent in 2000 to 45 per cent in 2017, 4.2 billion people worldwide still lacked safely managed sanitation, including 2 billion who were without basic sanitation. Of these, 673 million people practiced open defecation. “Today, Sustainable Development Goal 6 is badly off track,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “This is hindering progress on the 2030 Agenda, the realization of human rights and the achievement of peace and security around the world. He added that, “Water globally is threatened by the twin threats of increasing demand and withdrawals and the degradation of water sources and associated ecosystems due to climate change, pollution and other threats. The water and sanitation crisis demands a holistic, systemic and multilateral response.” In addition to the Secretary-General, the President of the UN General Assembly, heads of 10 United Nations entities and stakeholders from civil society and the private sector also addressed the session, as well as United Nations Member States who welcomed the new framework. The SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework has been developed in partnership with over 30 UN entities and 40 international organizations outlining a more efficient and coordinated support to countries to ensure global availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Mr. Liu Zhenmin, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs said “only if we raise the ambition through strong political will and commitment at the highest level, will we be able to achieve SDG 6 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The water and sanitation crisis is getting worse and lack of progress on SDG 6 undermines progress on all of the other SDGs, particularly on global health, education, food, gender equality, energy and climate change. The situation compromises the entire 2030 Agenda and other international agreements and weakens the international community’s ability to combat and prevent pandemics. “COVID-19 makes us acutely aware of our shared vulnerability. The consequences of chronic underinvestment in water and sanitation services for billions of people are becoming abundantly clear, ” said the Chair of UN-Water and President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Gilbert F. Houngbo. “Yet the extraordinary global disruption offers a unique opportunity to use the framework and get the world on track to deliver SDG 6”. Under the Framework, the UN entities will commit to strengthening their collaboration and unify the international community’s support to countries. This will be done through:
Coordinated by UN-Water, the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework is a contribution to the Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs by 2030. For more information, please contact : Michal Szymanski, Associate Public Information Officer, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, email michal.szymanski2@un.org | M: +1 (718) 753 6336 |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/283139 |
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