2025-07-16T22:00:00Z

No One Left Behind? Reassessing Global Commitments in Times of Scarcity.

No One Left Behind? Reassessing Global Commitments in Times of Scarcity. | Forus

Thursday, July 17, 2025 
12:45 to 2:00 PM at Conference Room B – UNHQ 

 

The year 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of several significant UN agreements that have shaped international efforts in development, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and peace and security. It also marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations.  

 

The approval of the following global agreements marked a significant collective effort by the international community to address some of the most pressing global challenges of our time: 

  • The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Adopted by all United Nations members in 2015, it set forth 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on achieving peace and prosperity for people and the planet by 2030.

  • The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: This landmark international treaty, adopted at COP21 in Paris in December 2015, established a framework to combat climate change by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Its central aim is to keep the global temperature increase to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. 

  • The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Adopted in March 2015 at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, this 15-year agreement provides concrete actions to protect development gains from disaster risk and strengthen social and economic resilience to disasters caused by natural, biological, and technological hazards. 

  • The Addis Ababa Action Agenda: Agreed upon at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in July 2015, this agenda provides a global framework for financing sustainable development and supports the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  

Assessing progress on these critical agreements that promised the most vulnerable populations to not leave them behind requires a major undertaking at a time when Member States are advancing significant policy changes across several dimensions, including the financial one. 

 

The meeting of the High-level political forum, charged with tracking SDGs progress and setting a way forward toward achievement of the SDGs, is a key moment to bring to light the impact of national and global policy changes that are retracting from commitments and progress made risking achievement of the SDGs. 

Objectives 

  • Discuss and highlight the impact on the most vulnerable people, including women, children, and youth. 

  • Highlight the current global landscape, including national and global policies that are setting sustainable development on the regression track. 

  • Highlight recommendations for the way forward to set a new route towards Leaving No One Behind. 

 

 

The event is sponsored and co-sponsored by: 

  • Together 2030
  • TAP Network
  • CEPEI
  • Sightsavers 

Moderated by: Arelys Bellorini – Together 2030. 

Closing remarks by: John Romano, Executive Director, TAP Network.