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Public SDGs or private 'Global Goals'?
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) negotiated painstakingly over two years by all UN Member States with thousands of public interest organizations providing their commitment and expertise have been copyrighted. And by whom? The UN you would think? But no. They have been re-branded as Global Goals (GGs) and the copyrighted by Project Everyone, a private company incorporated and registered in London.
On its own website (www.globalgoals.org), Project Everyone claims ownership of the 17 icons that it is popularizing, with active help from celebrities and the UN Secretariat itself, representing each of the 17 Goals that the heads of State and Government are endorsing this week as common objectives of humanity from here to the year 2030.
SDGs: Little respite for indebted poor countries
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For poor countries thwarted in their efforts to reform the global financial system, vague commitments on debt in the 2030 agenda offer scant cause for optimism
In any evaluation of the pros and cons of the millennium development goals, the eighth – on developing a global partnership for development – is inevitably likely to receive the least attention. The idea behind goal eight was that rich countries would change policies to help the MDGs become a reality. The fact that little has happened is one reason why many of the goals will not have been met by the deadline at the end of this year.
Fit for whose purpose? Private financing and corporate influence in the UN
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More than a hundred Heads of State and Government will gather in New York this week to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda is intended to make the UN 'fit for purpose', but it is important to ask, 'whose purpose will it be fit for'?
A new study from Global Policy Forum warns that the United Nations is embarking on a new era of selective multilateralism, shaped by intergovernmental policy impasses and a growing reliance on corporate-led solutions to global problems.
World Bank moves the poverty line, once again
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The World Bank is to make the most dramatic change to its global poverty line in 25 years, raising its measure by a half to about $1.90 per day in a move likely to swell the statistical ranks of the world’s poor by tens of millions.
The move from $1.25 would be the biggest revision since the World Bank introduced its $1 a day yardstick of global poverty in 1990.
Truth and Reconciliation in Sustainable Development
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Much has been said about the post-2015, now “2030 Agenda”, about its strengths and weaknesses.
Do the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an agenda for transformation or for a continuation, at best acceleration, of current practices?
They have the seeds of both.
The SDGs are not the Millennium Development Goals, which were partial goals, shaped mainly on the dynamics of receiving external public assistance, ODA.
These goals are universal and inclusive.
Read more: Truth and Reconciliation in Sustainable Development
