A green transition that leaves no one behind

This file photo taken on December 21, 2015, shows a boy working to crush stones at a quarry in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. We are still far from achieving our United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. — AFP

WE are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. Multiple, overlapping shocks have strained countries’ ability to address hunger, poverty, and inequality; build resilience; and invest in their futures. Debt vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries present a major hurdle to their economic recovery, and to their ability to make critical long-term investments.

We are urgently working to fight poverty and inequalities. An estimated 120 million people have been pushed into extreme poverty in the last three years and we are still far from achieving our United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. We should thus place people at the center of our strategy to increase human welfare everywhere on the globe.