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*ENVIRONMENT. FROM 15 TO 17 JULY, THE UN HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK*
BARBARO: “Crucial role for Italy”
“Italy will play a very important role in this event, as it will sign, among others, a Memorandum of Understanding with UN-Habitat which represents the first important and concrete follow-up to the Joint Declaration on Climate, Energy and Environment of the G7 in Turin (29-30 April 2024), thus strengthening an area of strategic collaboration on issues such as the application of the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 Agenda to the local territories, governance multi-level and policy consistency for sustainable development”. These are the remarks by Claudio Barbaro, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security representing Italy at the “United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)”, scheduled in New York.
The Forum is the largest global platform for sustainable development issues, with the participation of 193 States and it is the main event to check on the commitments undertaken by States to adopt the 2030 Agenda, with Italy at the forefront. During the 3-day event, some of the 17 objectives of the 2030 Agenda will be examined, among which priority 1 (end poverty), 2 (“Zero Hunger”), 13 (Climate Action), 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), and 17 (Partnerships for the objectives), against the backdrop of discouraging data that points to only 17% of the objectives achieved and as many as one third of them regressing, with 2023 as the hottest year recorded so far. The Forum will lead to the adoption of a declaration geared towards the Summit of the Future, the main UN event of 2024, that Italy’s Prime Minister will attend. The Summit of the Future, titled “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”, will take place from 22 to 23 September on the occasion of the high-level week of the 79th General Assembly and is expected to adopt a final document, known as the “Pact for the Future”, currently being negotiated in New York.
