HRH The Crown Princess’s engagement with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Five years ago, the world’s countries adopted UN 2030 – the agenda for sustainable development and the matching 17 Sustainable Development Goals. With 10 years to go to meet the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, HRH The Crown Princess will participate in and give a speech at the international conference “A Decade of Action – 10 Years left” at Christiansborg on 9 September 2020.
The UN’s global goals are 17 specific goals and subgoals that obligate all of the UN’s 193 member countries to solve several of the world’s biggest challenges. Over the past five years, The Crown Princess has been deeply engaged in the work of disseminating and achieving the global goals – both in Denmark and abroad. In particular, Her Royal Highness has focused on global goal no. 5 dealing with gender equality, and, as patron of the UN Population Fund, UNFPA, The Crown Princess has closely followed and taken part in the fund’s work. Both through trips together with Danish foreign and development cooperation ministers to countries ranging from Bangladesh to Burkina Faso and visits to UN agencies. UNFPA is an international development organization that promotes the rights of women, men and children to health and equality. The fund is one of Denmark’s biggest partners in the area of development, and The Crown Princess has been involved in a number of international events and projects relating to the fund’s leading issue: the rights of girls and women.
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Through the years, The Crown Princess has also taken part several times in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. There, the program has, among other things, focused on fulfillment of the UN’s global goals for sustainable development, and The Crown Princess has participated in a number of arrangements and meetings with both international actors and Danish companies and organizations. Just a few days after adoption of the sustainable development goals in September 2015, The Crown Princess gave a speech at a meeting that focused on the important role young people have in implementation of the new global goals, just as Her Royal Highness as a member of the international High Level Task Force for ICPD has helped to put a focus on promoting and safeguarding the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
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Since the adoption of the global goals, The Crown Princess has also focused on the topic in Denmark. In 2016, The Crown Princess gave the opening speech at “The UN’s 17 global goals for sustainable development” in Copenhagen. The same year, Her Royal Highness was patron of the Women Deliver conference, which was held in Copenhagen that year and which was one of the first large global conferences that took place after adoption of the global goals. At the Confederation of Danish Industry’s Summit in 2017, The Crown Princess gave a speech about the UN’s global goals and the private sector, and at the P4G summit in Copenhagen in 2018, The Crown Princess delivered a speech about the significance of partnerships in achieving the 17 global goals by 2030. At the summit, which was the first of its type, representatives from 47 countries participated together to focus on meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Last year, The Crown Princess was, among other things, present at the launching of Verdenstimen, which is an annual event with the objective of teaching children and young people about the global goals.
