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Global solidarity more important than ever: Priyanka Chopra at SDG Moment

With just under eight years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas said "a just, safe and healthy world" is the right of every individual which can become a reality with global solidarity. During her appearance at the 2022 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Moment opening remarks at the United Nations General Assembly, the "Quantico" star weighed in on some of the world's most pressing issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis and poverty. "We meet today at a critical point in our world, at a time when global solidarity is more important than ever. "As countries continue to struggle from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the climate crisis appends lives and livelihoods, as conflicts rage, and as poverty displacement, hunger and inequalities destroy the very foundation of the more just world that we have fought for for such a long time," Priyanka said in the speech shared by the UN via YouTube on .

Need to improve employment conditions for strong recovery: Bhupender Yadav

Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday underlined the need for improving employment conditions of workers for a strong and resilient recovery post pandemic. Yadav attended the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' meeting at Bali, Indonesia on September 13-14, 2022. He spoke about the importance of countries coming together for promotion of responsive and robust policies relating to employment generation, social protection, skilling and formalization, in the post-pandemic period for ensuring a more resilient, equitable and sustainable recovery. He also commended Indonesia for selecting the priority areas critical in the ever-changing world of work, a labour ministry statement said. These priority areas are labour market integration of persons with disabilities, sustainable growth and productivity in human capacity development through strengthening community-based vocational training. Other priority areas are promoting entrepreneurship and supporting small and medium ...

Achieving full gender equality may take 300 years at current rate, warns UN

At the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, the Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Need blended finance, private capital leveraging to achieve SDG: Sitharaman

Sitharaman was speaking at the Sustainable Finance for Climate Transition roundtable in Bali, Indonesia, which is hosting the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG)

Indian model of SDG localisation relevant: NITI Aayog V-C Suman Bery

'We do not have the luxury of time to develop solutions from scratch and perhaps the Indian model of SDG localisation is relevant'

UN commends India localising monitoring of sustainable development goals

The SDGs are 17 agenda points set by the UN in 2015 for achieving by 2030 and they range from poverty alleviation and promoting health to climate action and social justice

HCL, UNLEASH to develop solutions for aquatic ecosystem conservation

These solutions will aim to tackle challenges from source (mountains and glaciers) to sink (oceans and seas) and their links to terrestrial ecosystems, according to a statement

UN chief Guterres calls for joint efforts to advance sustainable goals

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for joint efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

UNGA meets to help reverse slump in global tourism sector post pandemic

"In 2019, prior to the pandemic, tourism contributed $3.5 trillion to global GDP. The precipitous drop during the pandemic is estimated to have cost up to 120 million jobs," the UNGA President noted

Global Citizen seeks up to $1 billion for six sustainable 'Impact' funds

The Global Citizen Impact Funds aim to help plug a large gap in funding for poorer countries struggling to meet the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

India slips 3 spots on 17 SDG adopted as 2030 agenda, says report

India's overall Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) score was 66 out of 100

Economic Survey: Southern states outdo others on India's road to net-zero

Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka take top slots in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index

India ESG assets up 4.7 times in two years to Rs 12,300 crore, shows data

The size of environment, social, and governance-based fund investments in India from a global sustainability AUM perspective is currently negligible, but has been growing significantly

Coal India consolidating its sustainable development goals, says govt

The government on Thursday said state-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) is quietly engaged in further consolidating its sustainable development goals.

India says BRICS nations can play leading role in achieving 2030 SDG goals

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said BRICS nations are capable of playing a leading role in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals of eradicating hunger and poverty

Niti Aayog releases NER District SDG Index report; East Sikkim tops chart

East Sikkim has topped in terms of meeting sustainable development goals in the Niti Aayog's North Eastern Region (NER) District SDG Index Report 2021-22 and Nagaland's Kiphire featured at the bottom

Agriculture sector key for achieving SDGs by 2030: Tomar to UN body

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the United Nations that the agriculture sector is key in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

No 'one size fits all' approach for localization of SDGs: India at UN

India said there is no 'one size fits all' approach for localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but can certainly share experience and learn from each other

India slips two spots to rank 117 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals

India's rank has slipped by two places from last year to 117 on the 17 SDGs adopted as a part of the 2030 agenda by 193 United Nations member states in 2015, a new report has said.

Kerala retains top rank in NITI Aayog's SDG Index, Bihar worst performer

Kerala has retained the top rank in NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2020-21, while Bihar has been adjudged as the worst performer