United Nations SDG Action Campaign Records Most Successful Global Week of Action
In parallel with the SDG Summit at the United Nations Headquarters, the Week of Action was launched worldwide to advance the SDGs at the local and regional level. And the need for action could not be greater. Only 12% of the SDG indicators are progressing on schedule. 50% of the targets are improving slowly and a full 30% are stagnant or even declining. The initiative of over 1700 international partner organizations countered the sobering record with countless examples of practical action and mobilized individuals, organizations and companies.
For example, the SDG Action Award winner "Let's Do It World" initiated World Cleanup Day, in which over 20 million people from El Salvador and Estonia to Kenya and Indonesia participated. In the Philippines, the Change Maker 2040 Museum reached over 100,000 students. The many individual actions are designed to start a process for the second half of the 2030 Agenda that will bring about the positive change the world so desperately needs at other levels as well. The 156 million actions in over 190 countries show that people around the world are taking decisive action for sustainable transformation.