NEW DELHI : Geo-political conflicts and the COVID-19 pandemic has put the 17 sustainable development goals of United Nations in jeopardy, according to a UN report released on Thursday.
Titled ‘The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022’, the report said that the combined crisis led to an additional 75 million to 95 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, compared with pre-pandemic projections.
In 2021, an estimated 17 million metric tons of plastic entered the world’s ocean and the volume of plastic pollution entering the ocean is expected to double or triple by 2040, the report said.
According to the data presented in the report, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the goals are far from over. Global “excess deaths" attributed to the virus reached 15 million by the end of 2021.