ACP Group Striving for Interrelated Sustainable Development
By Reinhard Jacobsen
BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit opens a new era for a repositioned African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP Group) to continue and deepen its decisive role in supporting all 79 member states “to achieve the 17 SDGs as the basis for the Sustainable Development of their societies and our only home we have for humanity”.
The basis and raison d’étre of the ACP is development and this implies “ending poverty in all its forms everywhere” (SDG 1). The unity and solidarity on which the ACP is founded provides a unifying force in adopting measures to end poverty, says a policy paper.…