Overview
- UN member states adopted by consensus the Doha Political Declaration (A/80/L.5) at the Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar.
- The pledge renews the 1995 Copenhagen agenda with commitments on poverty eradication, decent work, universal and gender-responsive social protection, equitable access to health and education, safe digital transformation, and social inclusion.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the declaration a “booster shot for development” and highlighted scale of need, citing nearly 700 million people in extreme poverty and almost 4 billion without any social protection.
- Priority actions set out include mobilizing $1.3 trillion in annual climate finance for developing countries by 2035, doubling adaptation finance to at least $40 billion this year, capitalizing the Loss and Damage Fund, tripling multilateral development bank lending, and advancing debt-relief tools.
- Opening panelists pressed for concrete national policies such as living wages and fairer taxation, stronger global tax cooperation, investment in skills and lifelong learning, and meaningful participation of youth, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups.