United Nations Marks Halfway Point to Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals Summit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : As part of the SDG Summit the UN is also launching several campaigns to garner public support for more financing and moral support for the SGDs and Agenda 2030.
60% : This is only the second time the SDG Summit has been convened since the adoption of the 17 SDGs by Heads of State and Governments of all UN Member States in September 2015.
52% : The Summit is being convened by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will be attended by heads of state from the United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Qatar, Senegal, Mozambique, and many other nations, as well as Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the President of the World Bank, and other diplomatic officials.
52% : Guterres first made this plea in February, stating, "We need to massively scale up affordable long-term financing by aligning all financing flows to the SDGs and improving the terms of lending of multilateral development banks".Guterres said the SDG Stimulus plan also includes five other recommendations, including calling on all UN Member States to "recommit to action to achieve the SDGs at national and international levels between now and 2030".

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