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12/07/22 05:23 AM IST

SDG Report 2022

In News 
  • The Sustainable Development Report, 2022 has been released.
  • The 2022 SDG Index is topped by three Nordic countries – Finland, Denmark and Sweden – and all top 10 countries are European countries.
Major Highlights 
  • Performance on SDG 1 (No Poverty) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) remain below pre-pandemic levels in many low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs).
  • Slow progress on climate and biodiversity: Progress on climate and biodiversity goals is also too slow, especially in rich countries.
  • Rise in Greenhouse gas: Greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise 14 per cent over a decade.
  • Antithetical to the Paris Agreement plan: A 2025 peak followed by a 43 per cent decline by 2030 and Net 2050.
  • Pandemic as a threat: The pandemic itself has emerged as one of the biggest threats to several SDGs, pointing at 15 million “excess deaths” directly or indirectly due to the novel coronavirus by 2021.
  • Health emergency: Economic shocks due to the worldwide health emergency pushed 93 million into poverty in 2020 alone, undoing “more than four years” work at alleviating poverty. It also affected the education and healthcare services for millions.
  • Immunization, for example, has dropped for the first time in a decade even as deaths from malaria and TB have risen.


Sustainable Development Report:
  •  It is a global assessment of countries’ progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  • It is published by a group of independent experts at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
Source- Indian Express 

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