{"id":49927,"date":"2018-06-18T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=49927"},"modified":"2018-07-24T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T13:55:46","slug":"press-briefing-on-the-sustainable-development-goals-report-2018-20-june-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/06\/press-briefing-on-the-sustainable-development-goals-report-2018-20-june-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Press briefing on the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 &#8211; 20 June, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More people are living better lives than they were a decade ago, according to the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018.\u00a0 However, for too many, progress has been elusive and far more efforts are needed as countries face a daunting array of global challenges: fast changing climate, conflict, inequality, persistent pockets of poverty and hunger and rapid urbanization.<\/p>\n<p>Using the latest available data, the annual Sustainable Development Goals Report provides a compelling snapshot of progress made, highlighting the most significant gaps and challenges facing the global community as it works towards achieving the Goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nMs. Amina J. Mohammed, ±¬ÁÏÍø Deputy Secretary-General<br \/>\nMs. Francesca Perucci, Assistant Director, Statistics Division, ±¬ÁÏÍø DESA<br \/>\nMs. Yongyi Min, Chief, Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring Section, Statistics Division, ±¬ÁÏÍø DESA<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong><br \/>\nPress briefing on The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday 20 June, 11:00 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong><br \/>\nS-237, ±¬ÁÏÍø Headquarters, New York or live through <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/\">http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information on the Report may be found at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs\">https:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Available for interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ms. Francesca Perucci, Assistant Director, Statistics Division, ±¬ÁÏÍø DESA (English)<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Yongyi Min, Chief, Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring Section, Statistics Division, ±¬ÁÏÍø DESA (English, Chinese)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Media contacts<\/strong><br \/>\n±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Public Information<br \/>\nDan Shepard, T: +1(212)963-9495 | E: shepard@un.org<br \/>\nSharon Birch, T: +1 (212) 963-0564 | E: birchs@un.org<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the SDGs, please visit website: www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment or follow us on Twitter at @GlobalGoals±¬ÁÏÍø and on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/globalgoals±¬ÁÏÍø.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are living better lives than they were a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}