Sha Zukang, Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, outlined priorities for Member States in the panel tackling sustainable development. Zukang emphasized poverty eradication, green jobs, energy, water, food security, urbanization, disasters, oceans and seas, and climate change. He recommended that mainly recipient countries should drive development cooperation programmes, based off of their national circumstances.
ECOSOC President Milos Koterec has said that this move towards sustainable development will "have an impact on the future of development cooperation and the way aid is allocated, delivered and used,".
This panel is an example of opportunities the international community can take to develop plans for sustainable development.
-Akshika Patel
SOURCE: UN News Centre
