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UN Secretary-General António Guterres convened the 2026 SDG Moment to celebrate progress and showcase actions, partnerships, and investments that could help close implementation gaps and accelerate the SDGs. Participants heard panel discussions interspersed with artistic performances – all focused on the theme, ‘Together, We Can Do It.’
Several speakers underscored the importance of youth leadership in ensuring that “SDG implementation can transform concerns over poverty, inequality, education, health, employment, climate change, and peace into hope and opportunity,” the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) summary of the event notes...
In his opening remarks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres noted progress since 2015 in reducing child and maternal mortality, preventing new HIV infections, and expanding access to education, social protection, safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity, renewable energy, and the Internet.