Press Conference USA

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS From the sidelines of the 70th UN General Assembly, Host Carol Castiel speaks with senior UN official Nikhil Chandavarkar about the recently approved 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eradicate poverty and control climate change by the year 2030. Chandavarkar tells VOA how and why the SDG’s are more ambitious in scope and magnitude than their predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals.