EU Council conclusions for the work of the EU & its Member States at the UN in Rome
Important EU Council conclusions for the work of the EU & its Member States at the UN in Rome (FAO, WFP, IFAD): “The European Union and its Member States have long been at the forefront of supporting global efforts to promote sustainable development, together representing 42% of all official development assistance (ODA) today.
Reaffirming the New European Consensus on Development, the Council confirms the commitment of the EU and its Member States to the principles and objectives of sustainable development in its three dimensions, to reducing and, in the long term, eradicating extreme poverty, to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition and achieving food security, to addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, to protecting the ocean, to reducing disaster risks, vulnerabilities and inequalities, including gender inequalities, and to leaving no one behind.
This commitment also plays a crucial role in the agriculture and food systems of rural economies. It is to be supported, inter alia, by collective and individual commitments on financing for sustainable development, including on ODA.”
