"Are we going to be too late for the SDGs?" Mia Mottley asked world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday, challenging them to"summon the determination to make the fundamental governance changes" that will turn the vision of sustainable development for all into a 21st century reality.
"Will we be too late to save as many as we can from the climate crisis; too late for us to save as many as we can from the ravages of war; too late to provide the food that so many need?", she asked.Acknowledging that world leaders have made progress, Ms. Mottley said much remained to be done on the road to 2030. Indeed, she pointed out that as of last year, 735 million suffered from chronic hunger, and that more people are likely to be hungry in 2030 than in 2015.
Calling for the creation of a regulatory framework in line with that outlines by the Secretary-General, she said the role artificial intelligence will play in our world"must be for good purposes but not evil.With aggressive oil supply cuts in Saudi Arabia and Russia and deadly flooding in Libya sending crude prices on a tear, oil prices are on pace to hit their largest quarterly increase since Russia invaded Ukraine in the beginning of 2022.