he 2023 SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. It will mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals with high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030.

By Robin Cohen, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, The University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

“Too many people worldwide cannot afford basic goods or access basic services and are trapped in abject poverty, often for generations. Current economic systems are simply unjust, discriminatory and not sustainable,” said UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, during a speech earlier this year on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Groundbreaking report shows the fossil fuel and industrial agriculture industries in the Global South are receiving an annual average of 20 times more financing from banks than governments are receiving for climate solutions. Banks have put $3.2 trillion towards the expansion of fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement, with $370 billion being funneled into the second major cause of climate chang