‘Global Goals’ to light up UN Secretariat building in New York
The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York will be
illuminated this evening with massive projections relating to the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of the three-day special UN summit beginning on
Friday.
“Starting at 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m., we expect to
illuminate the building with [images] relating to the Sustainable Development
Goals, as well as images related to the 70th anniversary of the United
Nations,” Under-Secretary-General for Public Information Cristina Gallach said
in a statement, noting that filmmaker Richard Curtis produced the project.
The projections were developed in collaboration with the
Global Goals campaign and 59 Productions. The filmed footage will be edited
into a four-minute film to be shown at the Global Citizen Festival on 26
September and broadcast around the world as part of international coverage of
the event.
The Global Goals campaign – funded by Mr. Curtis and launched
at UN Headquarters earlier this month – aims to reach 7 billion people in seven
days with news of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
More than 150 world leaders are expected at UN Headquarters
to formally adopt at a three-day summit that begins Friday 25 September, an
ambitious new sustainable development agenda. It will serve as the launch pad
for action by the international community and by national governments to
promote shared prosperity and well-being for all over the next 15 years.
Agreed by the 193 Member States of the UN, the new
framework, Transforming Our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
consists of a Declaration, 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets, a
section on means of implementation and renewed global partnership, and a
framework for review and follow-up.
Also speaking at the press conference was Amina J. Mohammed,
Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, who
described the agreement as “really meaningful.”
“It’s universal so it applies to everyone,’ she explained.
“We will no longer have a North-South conversation about what the North is
doing for the South, but what we are doing for each other. Clearly anything
that happens anywhere in this world has that fallout in many other places –
from the global financial crisis to conflict and migration, we feel it
everywhere – to natural disasters and climate change.”
The agenda builds on the successful outcome of the
Conference on Financing for Development that recently concluded in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, and is expected to positively affect the negotiations on a new
meaningful and universal climate agreement in Paris this December.
Its adoption on Friday will be preceded by an address to the
General Assembly by Pope Francis. Shortly after he departs, a special video
will be projected in the Hall.
Performances are also expected by international pop stars
and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Shakira and Angélique Kidjo. Malala Yousafzai
will then share a message alongside 193 young people representatives from all
UN Member States. The summit will then officially open.
Once the goals are adopted, Ms. Gallach said, every goal
will be read out by a group of different people – female presidents, young
children, celebrities and other individuals.
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