■記者向け資料：G20諸国首脳に宛てた国連事務総長書簡（仮訳:日本語）
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このたびは大阪サミットを前に、私たちが共有する課題と作業につき、いくつか考えを共有させていただきたいと思い、筆を執りました。世界は近年、私たちにとって最も差し迫った課題のいくつかへの取り組みで、前進を遂げてきました。しかし、こうした前進は十分な速さで進んでいるわけでもなければ、各国やコミュニティーに均等な広がりを見せているわけでもありません。
「持続可能な開発のための2030アジェンダ」に関する画期的な合意が成立してから4年が経過した今、私たちは持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）の達成に向けた取り組みを加速し、気候変動に取り組まねばなりません。大阪サミットでは、経済と社会が豊かになるだけでなく、より包摂的で持続可能となるような変容の必要性を強調すべきです。
2030アジェンダの実施状況に関する「大阪アップデート」では、2030アジェンダに関するG20行動計画の遂行に向けたG20メンバーの野心と皆様の決意をはっきりと示すべきです。私たちにはビジョンと枠組み、計画があります。必要なのは、これ以上の熟議ではなく、行動を加速することです。私はこの目的で、G20の首脳に対し、3つの分野で個別的、集団的なリーダーシップを発揮するようお願いしたいと思います。
第1に、私はG20メンバーに対し、急速で力強いだけでなく、公平でもある成長を促進する政策を率先して実施するよう呼びかけます。その中には、社会保障や新技術の活用改善などを通じ、世界の「ラストベルト（斜陽産業地帯）」で暮らす人々を取り残さないようにすることが含まれます。
また、すべての人にとって持続可能な開発を達成するという目的に適した国際金融システムを形成する必要もあります。さらに、ルールに基づく多国間貿易システムが危機に陥っていることを踏まえ、G20諸国は世界貿易機関（WTO）の必要な改革を先頭に立って進めなければなりません。
包摂的成長を実現するためには、コミュニティーのエンパワーメントを図るとともに、女性に平等な賃金と雇用機会、そしてディーセント・ワーク（働きがいのある人間らしい仕事）を提供することが必要です。私は、2025年までに就労率の男女差を25% 縮小するという「25 by 25」宣言について、前進が見られることを歓迎します。G20諸国は、この宣言を国内の持続可能な開発戦略に取り込むことなどにより、さらに「25 by 25」の実現に向けた道を切り開いてゆくべきです。
経済危機には甚大な人的コストが伴うことから、公平な成長を図るためには、経済のボラティリティーを低下させることも必要です。よってG20諸国は、グローバルな金融セーフティーネットを強化し、そのシステミック・リスクに対する強靭性を高めるための取り組みを主導すべきです。私はG20諸国に対して、私たちの金融システムを持続可能にし、持続可能な開発に不可欠な中長期的投資の動員を容易にする規制その他の政策変更に取りかかるよう呼びかけます。
第2に、私たちは、民間資本が持続可能な開発へと流れるようにするためのインセンティブを設けるなどして、SDGsと整合する投資に向けた官民資金の流れを増大させる必要があります。
私はこの目的で、持続可能な開発目標の達成に向けた資金動員への官民からの支援強化をねらいとした国連システムによる行動を加速するとともに、2018年9月24日には「2030アジェンダ資金調達戦略」を立ち上げました。
第3に、私たちはデジタル革命がもたらす機会を捉える必要があります。急激に進むデジタル革命は、効率を大幅に向上できる将来性を秘めているだけでなく、すでに私たちの経済と社会に大きな影響を及ぼしています。しかし、デジタル・ディバイドが急速に拡大するおそれもあるため、データから課税に至るまで、機会を形成するゲームのルールを包摂的に策定する必要もあります。私は、金融工学のポテンシャルを十分に発揮させるための具体的な政策提言を策定するため、「持続可能な開発のデジタル資金調達に関するタスクフォース」を設置しました。私はまた、G20メンバーに対し、デジタル・ディバイドを埋める政策の推進を続けるよう強く呼びかけます。
2019年5月23日付の皆様への書簡で、私は気候行動サミットに対する期待を表明しました。私は皆様に対し、大胆かつ現実的な計画を持ってサミットに参集するよう強く促します。2019年9月の国連ハイレベル週間は、2030アジェンダの実現に向けた皆様の決意を示すまたとない機会です。最高の政治レベルでサミットに参加し、具体的な行動を協議の場に持ち寄ることにより、G20メンバーは、人々と地球にとって安全で豊かな未来という、私たちが共有する目標の達成に至る道へと、私たちを導くことに貢献できるのです。
私たちは集団的に、かつ緊迫感をもって世界的なリスクを管理することにより、将来に向けた私たちのビジョンを実現するための道を切り開くことができます。G20はそこで中心的な役割を果たさねばなりません。それは、実質的な変革を推進できる役割です。皆様の決定は、全世界のおよそ80億人の生活に影響するからです。皆様には、誰ひとり取り残さないための先導役をお願いいたします。
敬具
アントニオ・グテーレス
2019年6月20日
Note to Correspondents
Secretary-General’s letter to G20 leaders
Excellency,
I write on the eve of the Osaka Summit to share some thoughts about our shared challenges and work. The world has made progress towards addressing some of our most pressing challenges in recent years. However, advances are not happening fast enough, nor are they evenly spread across countries and communities.
Four years after the landmark agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we have to accelerate efforts towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address our changing climate. The Osaka Summit should underscore the need for transformational changes so that economies and societies prosper, but also become more inclusive and sustainable.
The Osaka Update on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda should demonstrate clearly the ambition of G20 members and your commitment to deliver on the G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda. We have the vision, the frameworks and the plans. What we need is accelerated actions, not more deliberations. To that end, I call on G20 leaders to exercise their individual and collective leadership in three areas.
First, I encourage G20 members to take the lead in implementing policies that promote not only rapid and robust, but also equitable growth. This includes ensuring that those living in the “rust belts” of the world are not left behind, including through social protection, and better leveraging new technologies.
It also includes shaping an international financial system that is fit for the purpose of achieving sustainable development for all. And with a rules-based multilateral trading system in crisis, G20 countries must take the lead in advancing the necessary reforms of the World Trade Organization.
Inclusive growth needs to empower communities and provide equal pay and employment opportunities and decent work for women. I welcome the progress made on the “25 by 25” commitments. G20 countries should further lead the way to implement the “25 by 25”, including by integrating the commitments into national sustainable development strategies.
Equitable growth also implies less economic volatility, given the sharp human costs associated with economic crises. G20 countries, thus, should lead efforts to strengthen the global financial safety net and increase its resilience to systemic risks. I call on G20 countries to undertake the regulatory and other policy changes that will make our financial systems sustainable and facilitate the mobilization of longer-term investments on which sustainable development depends.
Second, we need to increase the flow of public and private finance towards investments that are aligned with the SDGs, in part by shaping incentives so that private capital flows towards sustainable development.
To this end, I have accelerated actions by the United Nations system aimed at galvanizing support from the public and private sector to mobilize finance
for the Sustainable Development Goals and have launched a Strategy for Financing the 2030 Agenda on 24 September 2018.
Third, we need to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution, which is advancing rapidly, with great promise for increased efficiency, and with already profound impacts on our economies and societies. But digital divides can also grow rapidly, and the rules of the game ? from data to taxation ? that will shape opportunities need to be designed in an inclusive manner. I have established the Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals to elaborate concrete policy recommendations to fully realize the potential of financial technology. I also urge the G20 members to continue to promote policies that bridges the digital divide.
In my letter to you dated 23 May 2019, I expressed my expectations for the Climate Action Summit. I strongly encourage you to come to the Summit with bold and realistic plans. The United Nations High-level week in September 2019 provides a unique opportunity to show your determination to realize the 2030 Agenda. By participating at the highest political level and bringing concrete actions to the table, G20 members can help lead us on the path to achieve our shared goal of a safe and prosperous future for people and the planet.
By acting collectively and with urgency to manage global risks, we can pave the way to achieving our vision for the future. The G20 must play a central role. A role that can drive real change. Your decisions impact the lives of almost eight billion people around the world. I urge you to lead the way in ensuring that no one is left behind.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Ant?nio Guterres
20 June 2019
Secretary-General’s letter to G20 leaders
Excellency,
I write on the eve of the Osaka Summit to share some thoughts about our shared challenges and work. The world has made progress towards addressing some of our most pressing challenges in recent years. However, advances are not happening fast enough, nor are they evenly spread across countries and communities.
Four years after the landmark agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we have to accelerate efforts towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address our changing climate. The Osaka Summit should underscore the need for transformational changes so that economies and societies prosper, but also become more inclusive and sustainable.
The Osaka Update on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda should demonstrate clearly the ambition of G20 members and your commitment to deliver on the G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda. We have the vision, the frameworks and the plans. What we need is accelerated actions, not more deliberations. To that end, I call on G20 leaders to exercise their individual and collective leadership in three areas.
First, I encourage G20 members to take the lead in implementing policies that promote not only rapid and robust, but also equitable growth. This includes ensuring that those living in the “rust belts” of the world are not left behind, including through social protection, and better leveraging new technologies.
It also includes shaping an international financial system that is fit for the purpose of achieving sustainable development for all. And with a rules-based multilateral trading system in crisis, G20 countries must take the lead in advancing the necessary reforms of the World Trade Organization.
Inclusive growth needs to empower communities and provide equal pay and employment opportunities and decent work for women. I welcome the progress made on the “25 by 25” commitments. G20 countries should further lead the way to implement the “25 by 25”, including by integrating the commitments into national sustainable development strategies.
Equitable growth also implies less economic volatility, given the sharp human costs associated with economic crises. G20 countries, thus, should lead efforts to strengthen the global financial safety net and increase its resilience to systemic risks. I call on G20 countries to undertake the regulatory and other policy changes that will make our financial systems sustainable and facilitate the mobilization of longer-term investments on which sustainable development depends.
Second, we need to increase the flow of public and private finance towards investments that are aligned with the SDGs, in part by shaping incentives so that private capital flows towards sustainable development.
To this end, I have accelerated actions by the United Nations system aimed at galvanizing support from the public and private sector to mobilize finance
for the Sustainable Development Goals and have launched a Strategy for Financing the 2030 Agenda on 24 September 2018.
Third, we need to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution, which is advancing rapidly, with great promise for increased efficiency, and with already profound impacts on our economies and societies. But digital divides can also grow rapidly, and the rules of the game ? from data to taxation ? that will shape opportunities need to be designed in an inclusive manner. I have established the Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals to elaborate concrete policy recommendations to fully realize the potential of financial technology. I also urge the G20 members to continue to promote policies that bridges the digital divide.
In my letter to you dated 23 May 2019, I expressed my expectations for the Climate Action Summit. I strongly encourage you to come to the Summit with bold and realistic plans. The United Nations High-level week in September 2019 provides a unique opportunity to show your determination to realize the 2030 Agenda. By participating at the highest political level and bringing concrete actions to the table, G20 members can help lead us on the path to achieve our shared goal of a safe and prosperous future for people and the planet.
By acting collectively and with urgency to manage global risks, we can pave the way to achieving our vision for the future. The G20 must play a central role. A role that can drive real change. Your decisions impact the lives of almost eight billion people around the world. I urge you to lead the way in ensuring that no one is left behind.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Ant?nio Guterres
20 June 2019