Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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Jointly organised with DG PART and its External Antennae to the UN, AU and ASEAN

In 2015, the international community agreed on an ambitious agenda for achieving sustainable development outcomes by 2030. However, at the mid-point, the world is off track, with progress on many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals static or even in reverse as the 2023 SDG Summit again highlighted. This roundtable will examine areas where we are lagging behind and how Europe and other regions of the world can catalyse progress to move forward.

European Parliament resolution of 15 June 2023 on the implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (2023/2010(INI)): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0250_EN.pdf

EPRS topical digest: SDGs: The EU and the Sustainable Development Goals: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/TD_SDGs202307.pdf

Speakers include:
Udo BULLMANN, MEP, Chair of the EP Subcommittee on Human Rights and rapporteur for Parliament's 2023 resolution on the implementation of the SDGs
Maria Francesca SPATOLISANO, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Hafez GHANEM, former World Bank Regional Vice-President for Eastern and Southern Africa; former World Bank Vice-President for Africa
Rachael BEAVEN, Director of the Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Hamza MALIK, Director of the Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Eric PICHON, Policy Analyst, External Policies Unit, EPRS
Moderator: June O'KEEFFE, Head of Unit, Secretariat of the EP Committee on Development