How converging crises lowered education levels & intensified poverty

September 23, 2022

Ian Explains: How Converging Crises Lowered Education Levels & Intensified Poverty | GZERO World

The Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are the UN's 2015 blueprint for making the world a better place.

But now this agenda is on life support. Thanks to the pandemic, the world is way off-track to meeting the 17 SDGs by the 2030 deadline.

In one fell swoop, COVID undid two decades of progress on education. The same goes for eradicating poverty, ending hunger, fighting climate change, or realizing global peace, Ian Bremmer explains on GZERO World.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has a message for world leaders converging in New York for the annual UN General Assembly: We need to rescue the SDGs.

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