The Covid pandemic has squeezed funds for achieving Agenda 2030 under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the challenge is not to lose the momentum by ensuring continued funding, top diplomat T S Tirumurti said on Tuesday. Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said the pandemic has undoubtedly disrupted decades of developmental progress on many fronts, pushing billions into poverty.
This has caused the most damaging humanitarian and economic crisis since World War Two, especially for the more vulnerable countries, he said.
“The pandemic has effectively squeezed the funds available to achieve Agenda 2030 in this decade of action and diverted them for more pressing humanitarian requirements,” Tirumurti said while addressing the SDG Summit, 2021, virtually.
