The 2030 Hub for Sustainable Solutions is important for the decentralization of the UN entity and for increasing advocacy of the local level to the Secretary General. Kerry Constabile First Officer for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Executive Office of the UN Secretary General
We have to think together to create a strategy, everybody must bring something to the table, bearing in mind that there cannot be sustainable peace without social justice. Pierre Martinot Lagarde Advisor on Strategic Partnerships and Ocio-Religious Affairs, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Localizing the SDGs has become a more widespread concept and important progress has been made in this regard, but we are still seeing from many of our partners that ownership can be improved. There is an overall sentiment of feeling overwhelmed. Gemma Aguado Programme Analyst, ART Initiative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Creativity booms everywhere, we have seen so many interested young people who want to transform their cities from China to slums in Africa to dense areas in Latin America. But the most typical questions we would hear are ‘what is the urban agenda’ and ‘what are the SDGs?’ Fernando Casado Co-Director of the Project “Towards the Human City”, Director of GlobalCad
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