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World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis have approved a Political Declaration with ambitious new targets for the next five years to advance the global efforts towards ending the TB epidemic. UNIFEED

Gathering at the SDG Summit in New York, world leaders agreed to urgently step up their efforts to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), our global roadmap out of crises, by 2030. UNIFEED

The President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, announced the winners of the prestigious United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for 2023. UNIFEED

Addressing the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) Secretary-General António Guterres said COVID-19, the climate crisis, and widespread conflict, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “have hobbled fragile and limited progress,” but he made clear that “our world was off track well before these upheavals.” UNIFEED

A High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development started today in New York. The theme of the forum is “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels”. UNIFEED

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

The Eighteenth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) kicked off today in New York to discuss the links between the Global Forest Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

Opening the 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “The global financial architecture was created for a world that no longer exists. It cannot address the challenges faced today by developing countries.” UNIFEED

The 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will provide a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned today that “global warming is a global warning that we are on the wrong track” and “melting glaciers are the canary in the coalmine.” UNIFEED