Sustainable Development Goals can be reached ‘despite our grim times’: ECOSOC President

Collen V. Kelapile, President of the Economic and Social Council (

), was delivering opening remarks to the ministerial segment of its ongoing High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). 

Countries are meeting in the General Assembly Hall to examine how recovery policies can reverse the pandemic’s negative impacts on the common goal of creating a more equitable future for all people and the planet. 

Opportunity for…