The UN’s “Sustainable Development Agenda”
is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud
This Agenda is a
plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to
strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognize that
eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme
poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable
requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all
stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this
plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty
and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take
the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the
world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this
collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17
Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing
today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda.
They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what
these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and
to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of
sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental.
– From the Preamble to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
UN
records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised
the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and
climate disaster.
Records from the
SDG process reveal that insiders at the heart of the UN’s
intergovernment engagement negotiations have criticised the
international body for pandering to the interests of big business and
ignoring recommendations from grassroots stakeholders representing the
world’s poor.
Formal statements
issued earlier this year as part of the UN’s Post-2015 Intergovernmental