The food crisis, energy crisis, financial crisis, a global recession and, of course, the looming climate crisis are all interconnected and the only way of addressing them effectively is through integrated solutions.Īt the Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the seventeenth Session of the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD), held in New York 23-27 February 2009, many delegations expressed their concerns regarding the impacts of the financial and economic crisis on sustainable development, including on trade financing for food and other essential imports and on farmers’ access to credit. The world is currently facing extremely difficult challenges to sustainable development and environmental management. The division also promotes the adoption of an integrated and broadly participatory approach to sustainable development, aimed at measurable progress in the implementation of the goals and targets of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. The global financial and economic crisis in 2009 has exacerbated the situation: Growth rates are falling, unemployment is rising, poverty in deepening, hunger and malnutrition are on the increase again, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals is in jeopardy.ĭESA’s Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) is the substantive secretariat to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and seeks to enhance the integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions in policy-making at international, regional and national levels. The subsequent fall of energy prices has eased some of the pressure on energy importing countries.
The spike in food and energy prices in 2008 led to a severe food crisis. Several challenges threaten progress towards sustainable development goals.
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