UN report shows weak progress in SDG targets

Progress remains uneven and insufficient and without a decisive push to rapidly scale up what works, the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals risked slipping out of reach. That's a key message in the 2026 Sustainable Development Goals Report launched in New York Tuesday with a little over five years to achieve the broad development agenda unanimously adopted by all 193 U.N. member states in September 2015. But with the clock ticking to the 2030 deadline to achieve the goals, the progress report shows that of the 139 SDG targets with trend data, implementation remains weak. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

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