比尔·盖茨：COVID-19 几乎在各个方面都加剧了不平等
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/bill-gates-pandemic-threatens-global-goals/?gad_source=1&gclid=
作者：艾伦·伍尔霍斯特 2020 年 9 月 15 日
纽约，9 月 14 日（汤森路透基金会）——冠状病毒大流行已经抹去了在未来十年消除世界贫困和饥饿等崇高目标方面取得的进展，但 COVID-19 造成的经济损失表明全球发展有多么严重慈善家比尔盖茨说，这是需要的。
盖茨在比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会周一发布的全球发展报告中发表讲话时表示，在世界范围内，该病毒加剧了教育、工资和医疗保健等领域的社会和经济不平等。
该报告概述了 COVID-19 造成经济损失并阻碍联合国五年前通过的许多全球发展目标进展的方式。
微软公司联合创始人盖茨在与记者举行的电话会议上表示：“新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情不仅阻碍了进步，还让进步倒退。”他和妻子梅琳达·盖茨 (Melinda Gates) 于 2000 年成立了该慈善基金会。
2015 年，联合国成员一致通过了 17 项可持续发展目标，即 SDG，这些目标读起来就像是一份雄心勃勃的任务蓝图，从消除饥饿和性别不平等到扩大教育和医疗保健的机会。
这些目标的最后期限是 2030 年。
“可持续发展目标代表了我们对全人类的价值观，”盖茨说。
他说：“大流行强化了这些目标的重要性。” “毕竟，疫情几乎在各个方面都加剧了不平等。”
报告称，二十年来，生活在极端贫困中的人数一直在下降，但新冠病毒危机已使近 3700 万人陷入极端贫困。
报告称，疫情加剧了男女在无偿工作方面的不平等，女性比以往任何时候都要承担更多的育儿和家务劳动。
自病毒出现以来，专家们一直警告说，随着经济萎缩、公共融资枯竭和国际合作减弱，全球目标将受到威胁。
根据联合国 5 月份发布的《世界经济形势与展望》报告，近 90% 的世界经济处于某种形式的封锁之下，供应链受到干扰，消费者需求受到抑制，数百万人失业。
专家表示，此前对全球目标的批判性评估曾预测，冲突或气候变化将减缓进展，但大流行是迄今为止最大的障碍。
5 月份的联合国报告预测，COVID-19 将在未来两年内使全球经济产出减少 8.5 万亿美元，并表示今年全球经济预计将萎缩 3.2%，这是自 1930 年代大萧条以来最严重的一次。
Bill Gates: COVID-19 Has Worsened Inequity in Nearly Every Way
By Ellen Wulfhorst Sept 15, 2020
NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
Across the world, the virus has deepened social and economic inequality in areas like education, pay, and health care access, Gates said in remarks accompanying Monday's release of a global development report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The report outlines ways in which COVID-19 has wreaked economic damage and derailed progress on many of the global development goals adopted by the United Nations five years ago.
"The COVID-19 pandemic not only stopped progress, it kicked it backward," said Gates, who co-founded Microsoft Corp., in a conference call with reporters. He and his wife, Melinda Gates, set up the philanthropic foundation in 2000.
UNÂ members unanimously passed 17 Sustainable Development Goals, known as SDGs, in 2015, that read like a blueprint of ambitious tasks from ending hunger and gender inequality to expanding access to education and health care.
The goals had a deadline of 2030.
"The SDGs represent the values that we have for humanity as a whole," Gates said.
"The importance of the goals if anything is reinforced by the pandemic," he said. "After all, the pandemic has in almost every dimension made inequity worse."
The number of people living in extreme poverty had been dropping for two decades, but the coronavirus crisis has pushed nearly 37 million more into the category, the report said.
It said the pandemic has widened inequality between men and women in terms of unpaid work, with women handling more child care and housework than ever before.
Experts have been warning since the virus emerged that the global goals would be threatened as economies shrink, public financing dries up and international cooperation wanes.
Nearly 90% of the world economy has been under some form of lockdown, disrupting supply chains, depressing consumer demand, and putting millions out of work, according to a UNÂ World Economic Situation and Prospects report issued in May.
Earlier critical assessments of the Global Goals had predicted that conflict or climate change would slow progress, but the pandemic marks the biggest obstacle yet, specialists have said.
The May UNÂ report predicted COVID-19 would slash global economic output by $8.5 trillion over the next two years and said the global economic contraction of 3.2% projected for this year was the sharpest since the Great Depression in the 1930s.Â
