A/HRC/45/40 (Goal 7); decent work and economic growth (Goal 8); industry, innovation and infrastructure (Goal 9); reducing inequalities (Goal 10); sustainable cities and communities (Goal 11); responsible production and consumption (Goal 12); climate action (Goal 13); life below water (Goal 14); life on land (Goal 15); peace, justice and strong institutions (Goal 16); and using partnership to help achieve the goals (Goal 17). 30. An integrated approach to peace, development, human rights and global environmental concerns underlies the Sustainable Development Goals, which encompass every aspect of human and planetary well-being. Most of the Goals and targets correspond to human rights obligations.15 Moreover, the 2030 Agenda represents the fullest expression to date of the right to development. In addition, the Agenda provides a universal implementation programme that is human rights-based and people-centred, and it constitutes a call to developed and developing countries to cooperate in a global partnership. 31. Beyond food and nutrition, health and quality education, the poor need access to safe and affordable drinking water, and to clean, safe, affordable and sustainable energy, which are fundamental to poverty eradication. Indeed, fulfilling the right to development embraces the enabling of a more equitable access by all to resources that cater to basic, subsistencelevel needs. 32. It is noteworthy that the world community endorsed a goal on reducing inequalities within and among countries. Goal 10 assigns all States a target to progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average. In doing so, a prescriptive or one-size-fits-all approach has deliberately been avoided, and the determination of the mix of policies needed to empower the bottom 40 percentile of income earners has been left to the discretion of each country. 33. Although article 3 of the Declaration on the Right to Development indicates that States have primary responsibility for the creation of national and international conditions favourable to the realization of the right to development, Goal 17 of the 2030 Agenda envisages a revitalization of the global partnership for sustainable development among States, as a means of achieving the other 16 Goals. In the global context, the right to development reflects a well-founded desire for an international order that does not hamper the process of development. 16 It is about enablement and empowerment, requiring an enabling environment as well as good governance at the national and international levels. On the one hand, Goal 17 incorporates provisions for strengthening domestic resource mobilization, including via improved domestic capacity for the collection of tax and other revenues, and support in attaining long-term debt sustainability. On the other hand, it requires developed countries to fully implement their long-standing official development assistance commitments. 34. A global partnership in line with Goal 17 would enable the developing world to more effectively access development and climate finance and environmentally sound technologies, in addition to boosting their own capacity development. This also implies encouraging official development assistance flows to regions where the need is greatest. 35. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on schedule would require effective partnerships between Governments, private sector and civil society. Indeed, no country acting on its own can successfully achieve such change. The complex challenges that the Goals are aimed at addressing do not fit into neatly demarcated sectors or national borders. Climate change, for example, is a global issue, and businesses and civil society are just as important as Governments in fighting it. Inclusive partnerships built upon a shared vision and shared goals that place people and the planet at the centre are needed at global, regional, national and local levels. 15 16 Statement by Maria Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, at the High-level Panel of the Human Rights Council Intersessional Meeting for Dialogue and Cooperation on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 3 December 2019, Geneva. General statement by India at the twentieth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, Geneva, 29 April 2019. Available at www.pmindiaun.gov.in/pageinfo/MTkyNg,,/. 7