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World leaders meeting at the United Nations focused Monday on accelerating efforts to achieve worldwide development goals, with progress lagging far behind schedule.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the summit of leaders that only 15% of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track to be reached by 2030.
"Instead of leaving no one behind, we risk leaving the SDGs behind. ... The SDGs need a global rescue plan," Guterres said.
He said the summit is "the moment for governments to come to the table with concrete plans and proposals to accelerate progress."
The goals include ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring access to affordable energy, taking urgent action to combat climate change and promoting gender equality.
They were set in 2015 with the aim of being achieved by 2030. Halfway to that marker, progress is trailing, and in some instances is even going backward.
A July report said climate crisis impacts, lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a weak global economy have hurt progress toward reaching the development goals.
Leaders from the 193 U.N. member nations adopted a 10-page declaration by consensus on Monday, recognizing that the goals are "in peril."
World leaders are meeting at the United Nations ahead of the General Assembly session, which begins Tuesday. U.S. President Joe Biden is among the presidents, prime ministers and monarchs from 145 nations scheduled to speak at the assembly. Biden is due to give his address on Tuesday, as is Guterres.
The leaders of Britain, China, France and Russia are not attending, with lower-ranking ministers representing their countries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the meeting Tuesday and attend a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday.
Apart from a focus on the worldwide development goals, the U.N. gathering will also spotlight climate change with the U.N.'s Climate Action Summit on Wednesday. Guterres will host the event, which aims to reverse backsliding on Paris climate agreement goals.
The U.N. has yet to announce which world leaders will speak at the climate summit. More than 100 countries' representatives have told Guterres they want to speak, according to Reuters.
Some information for this story came from The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.