The leaders of many countries of the world who met today at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, warned that the planet will be in serious danger if urgent action is not taken to save the 2030 development goals of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty and combating climate change.

With their declaration, adopted unanimously at today’s session before the annual UN General Assembly, they support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 and include among others energy issues, the fight against inequalities and gender equality.

“The implementation of the SDGs is at risk. We fear that progress on most of the goals is either too slow or has fallen behind where it was in 2015,” the declaration reads.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the leaders’ summit that only 15% of the goals are on track while the others follow a path opposite to the desired one. Earlier this month, Guterres had asked G20 leaders to ensure they set aside at least $500 billion a year to meet these goals.

The summit was held in the shadow of geopolitical tensions, fueled primarily by the war in Ukraine, as Russia and China compete with the US and Europe to win over developing countries.

This month The UN has warned that there are 745 million hungry or starving people in the world today, far more than in 2015 and the world is far from achieving its ambitious goal of ending hunger by 2030. At the same time, the cost of achieving the goals increased by 25%, reaching 176 trillion. dollars in the fiscal year ending September 2022, according to a report released last year.