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Summary
- UN Secretary General calls for a round table conference of world leaders.
- They will rally to focus on sustainable development.
- COVID-19 vaccination equity one of top priorities.
In a big announcement, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, called for a round table discussion with 18 countries which are largely dependent on extractive activities. This comes while the world is still under the shadows of the ghastly coronavirus pandemic, suffering not only health-wise but also economically.
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He is of the view that more stringent rules need to be put in place to improve the extractive policies in the industry and ensure a greener, cleaner tomorrow for the world while keeping accountability for the money being spent in the process.
Economies on their way to recovery
With world governments trying their best to find ways to put economies back on track after the ghastly pandemic, the UN has recently raised its voice regarding keeping sustainable development as the focal point in the same. While the world is on its way to decreasing carbon emissions manifold in the years to follow, there is a definite need of reforms to be made so as to facilitate the smooth transition into a carbon-controlled environment.
Rwanda President Mr. Paul Kamage in his recent announcement has called upon various governments of the world to focus on financial arrangement to help facilitate and speed up the process of renewable energy use. He is of the belief that with the help of focussing on technology development by investing in new channels of distribution, there can be found ways to maximise the use of renewable energy, and eventually reducing manifold the carbon imprint that humanity leaves on the planet.
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COVID-19-vaccine equality
In another opinion, the first step to the world’s recovery right now is to make sure that vaccines are made available to people from different nations equally, so that the biggest problem at hand, that is the pandemic, can be handled.
Dr Keith Rowley, the President of Trinidad and Tobago, was of the view that equality in this area would lead to a lot of things being set right in the form of a chain reaction, and he has advocated the same in front of the WHO as well as several other world leaders. He believes that there are going to be several opportunities for sustainable development in the post COVID-19 environment and the first and foremost for world governments should be to focus on getting there.
