Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Mark Garten (file)
, urging world leaders to take advantage of a historic opportunity this year to make transformative economic, environmental and social changes that will positively impact people's lives and ensure peace and stability.
The campaign, which he will launch in an expected wide-ranging address to an informal meeting of the 193-member UN General Assembly, aims to mobilize global support for action on a critical range of issues that affect people's lives, including setting an ambitious agenda that will advance sustainable development, develop new streams of sustainability financing and reach a climate agreement in 2015.
The UN chief will present his synthesis report, The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet, which aims to support States' discussions going forward, taking stock of the negotiations on the post-2015 agenda and reviewing lessons from pursuit of the MDGs. It stresses the need to "finish the job" - both to help people now and as a launch pad for the new agenda.
In the report's conclusion, the Secretary-General issues a powerful charge to Member States, saying: "We are on the threshold of the most important year of development since the founding of the United Nations itself. We must give meaning to this Organization's promise to 'reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person' and to take the world forward to a sustainable future…[We] have an historic opportunity and duty to act, boldly, vigorously and expeditiously, to turn reality into a life of dignity for all, leaving no one behind."
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