Welcome to the United Nations 
2016
The world has seen the fastest reduction of poverty for the past 15 years, along with reaching several other MDG targets. Despite these remarkable achievements, there remain a number of unfinished and emerging challenges for the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to address. These include, among others, extreme poverty, inequalities within and among countries as well as other challenges associated with weak governance, natural disasters, environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption and production patterns, climate change and a volatile global financial system. The least developed countries (LDCs), in particular remain among the most vulnerable and poorest countries that have been lagging behind in achieving the MDGs.