India's journey towards SDGs serves as inspiring example of determination, ingenuity: Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj
The HinduThe G20 summit under India’s Presidency put the Sustainable Development Goals “front and centre” and underscored the dedication to accelerate their implementation, New Delhi’s envoy in New York has said, emphasising that India’s journey towards SDGs serves as an “inspiring example of determination and ingenuity”. ‘India has remained committed to the cause’ In her address, Ms. Kamboj noted with concern that the SDG Progress Report shows that just 12% of the Sustainable Development Goal targets are on track, progress on 50% is weak and insufficient and “worst of all, the world has stalled or gone into reverse on more than 30% of the SDGs”. ORF president Samir Saran said the Global South in many ways today reflects a “new urge and a new determination by a new set of actors to carve the rules for the world.” Later at a ministerial event ‘South Rising: Partnerships, Institutions and Ideas’ organised by ORF and attended by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Mr. Saran said that at the New Delhi G20 summit in 2023, “a new body is being born that will serve the seven billion people who had been invisibilised by the one billion who benefited from globalisation”. “The shining example that we’re still basking in the glow from is the Indian G20 presidency and the consensus New Delhi declaration, bringing much-needed important momentum across a range of critical issues — from climate change, climate action to gender equality, to reforming multilateral institutions and international financial architecture that were designed in the aftermath of the Second World War to be fit for the new reality, the new world order and to look to see how we can achieve 2030” agenda, Mr. Sharp said.