Excellencies,<\/p>\n
Colleagues,<\/p>\n
Italy aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the EU and its Member States.<\/p>\n
Allow me to add a few remarks in my national capacity.<\/p>\n
First of all, I congratulate the new Chair and the new Bureau of the Second Committee. We look forward to productive discussions and a successful session.<\/p>\n
Mr Chair,<\/p>\n
This Second Commitee session comes at a crucial time, following the adoption of the Pact of the Future and as we prepare ourselves for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) to be held in Sevilla.<\/p>\n
Hence, our works are well positioned to lay the ground for the implementation of the Pact of the Future and its annexes, the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations and to represent a building block towards FFD4,\u00a0renewed in the commitment to multilateralism\u00a0testified by the adoption of the Pact of the Future.<\/p>\n
Looking more closely at our substantial agenda, we will be guided by the following priorities:<\/p>\n
Eradicating poverty\u00a0should remain our number one priority. Reducing poverty and tackling global challenges go hand in hand.<\/p>\n
Tackling the drivers of the food insecurity and malnutrition. It is deeply alarming that one third of the world\u2019s population remains food-insecure.<\/p>\n
Italy has always been strongly committed to reinforcing\u00a0global food security\u00a0and enhancing\u00a0climate resilience, as also recently shown by the\u00a0Apulia Food Systems Initiative, which aims to overcome structural barriers to food security and nutrition, with specific focus on the African continent. This initiative will leverage multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance ambitious programs on the ground and harness the full potential of food systems.<\/p>\n
Stepping up our efforts to close the SDGs financing gap. The goal remains to mobilize finance from all sources and the much required means of implementation to developing countries.<\/p>\n
In this spirit, Italy will continue to actively contribute to the ongoing reflection on a\u00a0SDGs Stimulus, following the Secretary General\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n
Finally, we also believe that\u00a0climate finance\u00a0should be additional to ODA. That is why we set up an ad hoc national\u00a0Climate Fund, recently inaugurated.\u00a0Up to 75% of its resources\u00a0will be earmarked for initiatives in the African continent.<\/p>\n
Chair, colleagues,<\/p>\n
We need a clear vision for our digital future. The recently adopted\u00a0Global Digital Compact\u00a0lays out\u00a0\u00a0this vision. The intention of Compact of closing the digital divides is not merely aspirational. The GDC, in fact, includes concrete, measurable, and actionable commitments<\/p>\n
Implementation should be guided by the principle of leaving no one behind and reducing structural inequalities. We will have to revitalize the global partnerships for sustainable development, working closely with all relevant stakeholders.\u00a0 We will continue to pay special attention to the needs of the countries in special situations, SIDS, LLDCs, LDCs and addressing their specific vulnerabilities, looking forward to the Gaborone Conference, next December.<\/p>\n
All the above mentioned themes will also be central topics for discussion at the G7 Development Ministers\u2019 Meeting that will take place on 22-24 October in Italy where several initiatives developed with our partners, such as the<\/p>\n
Energy for Growth in Africa Initiative, the Water Coalition\u00a0and\u00a0the Artificial Intelligence Hub for Sustainable Development\u00a0will converge. We need open and inclusive formats, based on very broad outreach, if we want to build a new model of partnership to produce deliverables that are concrete and mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n
Only by finding the\u00a0common ground\u00a0we will be able to successfully bring the SDGs back on track and to accelerate systemic actions on climate change and on financing for sustainable development.<\/p>\n
Colleagues, count on Italy for continuing our discussion on all these topics.<\/p>\n
I thank you, Mr Chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Excellencies, Colleagues, Italy aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the EU and its Member States. Allow me to add a few remarks in my national capacity. First of all, I congratulate the new Chair and the new Bureau of the Second Committee. We look forward to productive discussions and a successful session. […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8097,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions\/8097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italyun.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}