Sustainable Development for People and Planet | SDG Media Zone | United Nations

With fewer than five years remaining to achieve the SDGs, this panel discussion provides a candid assessment of our global trajectory based on The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026. Speakers will highlight the tangible gains achieved through purposeful global action, demonstrating that SDG implementation successfully transforms lives at scale. However, the core of the discussion will address the severe headwinds stalling systemic progress. Panelists will unpack how escalating conflicts, slowing economic growth, climate chaos, rising debt burdens, and declining aid have created deeply uneven and insufficient outcomes. The session will outline solutions on what is needed to help accelerate the SDGs before 2030. Speakers: - Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for DESA - Shantanu Mukherjee, Acting Director, UNSD - Sarah Hendriks, UN Women Director of Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division Moderator: Chelsea Miller, Global strategist, advisor, and CEO of CPM Global


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