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U.S. abandons financing conference, will 'no longer reaffirm' Global Goals

The U.S. will not attend the FfD4 conference in Spain later this month to fund the Sustainable Development Goals.

The U.N. headquarters complex in New York, where the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted.
The U.N. headquarters complex in New York, where the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all U.N. member nations in 2015 as a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity. (AN/J. Heilprin)

The Trump administration withdrew the United States from a major U.N. conference to negotiate financing for the Sustainable Development Goals.

The U.S. objects to "new, costly, and duplicative mechanisms or initiatives that will only undermine the effectiveness of existing efforts," Jonathan Shrier, the U.S. acting representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, told a committee on Tuesday preparing for the conference.

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