Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
A/RES/70/218
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, supports and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of
implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong
political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling
environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global
partnership and solidarity,
Recognizing that the importance of the eradication of poverty in all its forms
and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an
indispensable requirement for sustainable development,
Concerned at the global nature of poverty and inequality, underlining the fact
that the eradication of poverty and hunger is an ethical, social, politi cal and
economic imperative of all humankind, and in this regard recognizing that there is a
need to better understand the multidimensional nature of development and poverty,
Reaffirming that each country faces specific challenges in its pursuit of
sustainable development, that the most vulnerable countries and, in particular,
African countries, the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries
and small island developing States deserve special attention, as do countries in
situations of conflict and post-conflict countries, and that there are also serious
challenges within many middle-income countries,
Expressing concern about the adverse impact of the consequences of the world
financial and economic crisis, including on development, and evidence of an
uneven, fragile and slow recovery, cognizant that the global economy,
notwithstanding significant efforts that helped to contain tail risks, improve
financial market conditions and stability and sustain recovery, still remains in a
challenging phase, with downside risks, including high volatility in global markets,
excessive volatility of commodity prices, high unemployment, particularly among
young people, unsustainable debt in some countries and widespread fiscal strains,
which pose challenges for global economic recovery and reflect the need for
additional progress towards sustaining and rebalancing global demand, and stre ssing
the need for continuing efforts to address systemic fragilities and imbalances and to
reform and strengthen the international financial system while implementing the
reforms agreed upon to date,
Reaffirming that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time,
that its adverse impacts undermine the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable
development, that increases in global temperature, sea level rise, ocean acidification
and other climate change impacts are seriously affecting coastal areas and low-lying
coastal countries, including many least developed countries and small island
developing States, and that the survival of many societies and of the biological
support systems of the planet are at risk, further threaten ing food security and
efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development, and thus requir ing
urgent action to maintain, preserve and sustain the development gains achieved in
the past decades,
Concerned that, past the midway point of the Second United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017), while there has been progress in
reducing poverty, especially in some middle-income countries, such progress has
been uneven, with the number of people living in poverty in its different forms and
dimensions continuing to increase and inequalities to rise in some countries, with
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