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00:00Give us an update, first and foremost in terms of the progress that's being made towards these goals. Well, first of all, thank you for having me. It's a great pleasure. In 2015, the United Nations agreed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which involves 17 sustainable development goals. The thrust of the Sustainable Development Agenda is to empower people to lift them out of poverty, marginalisation and deprivation. Because even today there still exists something like 860 million people living in poverty and abject poverty and hopelessness in the world and a similar number who are hungry. Not to mention another number of people, another cohort who are food insecure. So the sustainable development agenda is really about lifting people, empowering them to live lives of dignity, and to do so in a way that minimizes the disruption and the harm to the natural environment and our natural ecosystems. For a number of reasons, progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals are fallen off track. Progress has not been been maintained at the rate at which it had been hoped. And of course there are only six years left to 2030. So we need to speed up. We need to refocus and speed up in getting countries to undertake the necessary reforms that would result in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. And Sustainable Sustainability Week is designed to do precisely that. You talk about the slowness of the progress and in fact, there is no G7 country, including the EU as a whole, that has the policies in place to keep the world from warming less than 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. So how at an event like this, how do you make progress towards closing that gap? Well, sustainable development is about significantly more as important, in fact, as crucial as it is. It's about significantly more than climate change. Climate change is one dimension, an extremely important one of sustainable development. But there are there are a number of other issues, really. There are issues, for example, around access to education, to quality education for all people everywhere, because as it stands at the moment, hundreds of millions of people, particularly people in poorer developing countries and in far flung rural areas. Many of whom are women and girls, do not have access to quality education. And of course, there can be no development without access to education. So that's an important dimension of sustainable development goals. As is the case similarly with health. But people need the guarantee of access to affordable basic health. And in many parts of the world, that is not the case. So it's about climate change, in part because, of course, we need to preserve our natural assets, the ecosystems that we depend on, on a day to day basis to give or to give us the comforts in life that we enjoy. But it is about a significantly wider range of of issues that. Put together will create the sustainable development that is necessary. Even amongst the world's biggest economies, though, we're seeing climate ambitions that are being weakened, whether that's through scrapping different programs like low carbon programs, for instance, or backtracking on different regulations. Why is that exactly, do you think and and what's the best way to address that at a government level? Well, of course, countries make their own determination. You would be familiar with the concept of nationally determined contributions to climate change. The concept involves everyone, every member of the international community making a contribution to to controlling and mitigating the effects and the impacts of climate change. But countries or countries make their own determination based on a number of factors that are relevant in their peculiar stances. I'm unable to speak to the reason why countries might feel that they can renege on those commitments when in fact the evidence, the scientific evidence points to the fact that the effects of climate change will become much more virulent and much more invasive, intrusive in our daily lives if we do not act swiftly to decarbonize the atmosphere. Decarbonization will require direct intervention by states at various levels and not just states by the private sector, by by local communities, but by towns to rethink how we consume and produce. Given the dangers that we know exist with a continuing the supply of carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, one hopes that enlightened thinking would in fact propel countries to act responsibly and to recognise the importance of crucial importance of maintaining and in fact increasing the ambition of their commitments. Because if we don't, the consequences will be dire. There are some countries in the world, for example, in the Pacific region. Where there is increased risk of inundation due to rising sea levels as a consequence of climate change. And some of those small countries in the Pacific have already entered into discussions with third parties to relocate their populations, should they, in fact become inundated. So climate change is not the future. It's already here. There's this further there's further complications, of course. And as we know with developments at the moment being very fast moving, the geopolitical aspect is complicated, is complicating as well. Can I get your view on what the UN is thinking at the moment in terms of steps and options that are available with regard to the situation between Iran and Israel and whether Israel will retaliate? Yeah. I do not have a crystal ball, so I don't know. I don't know. I know. As much as you know, what the UN would like to see is no further escalation in the problem of tensions in the Middle East. Because, uh, escalation is a slippery slope. And the only consequence aside, as I said in my statement released yesterday, the only consequence would be more deaths, more destruction, more misery, which I believe nobody wants. It does not serve the international community, nor even those who are directly involved in the conflict that that should be the case. We need instead of really to be focusing. In a very constructive way. In getting a cease fire in Gaza. Getting a cease fire in Gaza. That should be where our main priorities lie at this point in time in order to ensure that there is no further bloodletting in Gaza and that the all the remaining hostages are released unconditionally and immediately. Are there any further impactful measures and options available to the United Nations, both with regard to pursuing a ceasefire and improving the situation in Gaza, but also in terms of what the reaction would be if there is a further retaliation from Israel. Well, we've made clear the United Nations has made clear what is the option it would like to see with respect to Gaza. A ceasefire needs to be agreed and we hope that that will happen soon. In our view, it's it's long overdue. More than 33,000 civilian deaths in Gaza is not by any means, by any measure, a comforting statistic, particularly when you consider that there may well have been violations of international law and international humanitarian law. However? Yes. Do you think that the the Iran strike? Do you think that that sort of complicates or risks the the chance of a ceasefire and also the hostage negotiations? We have to wait to see. What the consequences are. I can't. I'm in no position to anticipate what the fallout of that will be. The Iranians have said very clearly. That having made the strike they made on Israel. They deem the matter to have been concluded. I take them at their word. And I urge them to maintain their word. But in terms of predicting or looking into the the crystal ball to see what the impact might be. That's just not something that I'm in a position to do. This is not a my Dennis friend. But this is speculation. I'd like to ask you to. To help us, the U.N., to spread the word about choosing sustainability, which is actually the subject I thought we were here to discuss. Choosing sustainability is important because that is what will result in our ability to empower people across the world to live healthier, stronger, better lives in dignity, and create a future that is inclusive and equitable so that everyone in the world has a chance, has at least a fighting chance to live a life and to self-actualize in the interests of themselves and their families.

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UNGA's Francis on Sustainability, Geopolitics

Dennis Francis, President the UNGA, discusses his top priorities for UN's flagship event, 'Sustainability Week', that gathers top policy makers in New York to address critical global issues, and his broader outlook for ongoing global geopolitical tensions. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Annabelle Droulers on "Daybreak Australia". (Source: Bloomberg)

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