What the RW will freak out about next: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
25 September 2015 The 193-Member United Nations General Assembly today formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals, which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world.
The new agenda is a promise by leaders to all people everywhere. It is an agenda for people, to end poverty in all its forms an agenda for the planet, our common home, declared Mr. Ban as he opened the UN Sustainable Development Summit which kicked off today and wraps up Sunday.
The UN chiefs address came ahead of the Assemblys formal adoption of the new framework, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is composed of 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.
The Goals aim to build on the work of the historic Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which in September 2000, rallied the world around a common 15-year agenda to tackle the indignity of poverty.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51968#.VgWsdctViko
Global goals received with rapture in New York now comes the hard part
To cheers, applause and probably a tinge of relief, the 17 global goals that will provide the blueprint for the worlds development over the next 15 years were ratified by UN member states in New York on Friday.
After speeches from Pope Francis and the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, and songs from Shakira and Angelique Kidjo, the ambitious agenda which aims to tackle poverty, climate change and inequality for all people in all countries was signed off by 193 countries at the start of a three-day UN summit on sustainable development.
But beyond the fanfare there was a quieter recognition that without adequate financing, strong data collection and the political will to implement the goals, 2030 will not deliver the transformative agenda desired.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said the true test of commitment to the new global goals will be implementation.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/25/global-goals-summit-2015-new-york-un-pope-shakira-malala-yousafzai
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/live/2015/sep/25/un-sustainable-development-summit-2015-goals-sdgs-united-nations-general-assembly-70th-session-new-york-live
If you look at
the Pope's speech to the UN, you'll see he talked about this.
The UN website:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld
If you've seen right-wingers go crazy about 'Agenda 21', then this will be even worse. It's the UN, it's about protecting the environment, which has to include measures against climate change, and it requires countries working together, rather than a combination of military threats and robber capitalism. Plus the pope endorsed it.