{"id":11851,"date":"2015-09-05T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2015-09-05T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:09:07","slug":"un-plan-to-save-earth-is-fig-leaf-for-big-business-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11851","title":{"rendered":"UN plan to save Earth is \u201cfig leaf\u201d for Big Business: insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN plan to save Earth is \u201cfig leaf\u201d for Big Business: insiders<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is \u201cfundamentally compromised\u201d by corporate interests<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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At the end of this month, the UN will launch its new 2030 Sustainable Development agenda for \u201cpeople, planet and prosperity\u201d in New York, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders.<\/p>\n

The culmination of years of consultations between governments, communities and businesses all over the world, there is no doubt that the agenda\u2019s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer an unprecedented vision of the interdependence of global social, economic and environmental issues.<\/p>\n

But records from the SDG process reveal that insiders at the heart of the UN\u2019s 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\u2019s poor.<\/p>\n

Formal statements issued earlier this year as part of the UN\u2019s Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations on the SDGs, and published by the UN Sustainable Development Division, show that UN \u2018Major Groups\u2019 representing indigenous people, civil society, workers, young people and women remain deeply concerned by the general direction of the SDG process\u200a\u2014\u200awhereas corporate interests from the rich, industrialised world have viewed the process favourably.<\/p>\n

Big business<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Among the \u2018Major Groups\u2019 engaged in the UN\u2019s SDG process is \u2018Business and Industry.\u2019 Members of this group include fossil fuel companies like Statoil USA and Tullow Oil, multinational auto parts manufacturer Bridgestone Corporation, global power management firm Eaton Corporation, agribusiness conglomerate Monsanto, insurance giant Thamesbank, financial services major Bank of America, and hundreds of others from Coca Cola to Walt Disney to Dow Chemical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UN plan to save Earth is \u201cfig leaf\u201d for Big Business: insiders Why the new Sustainable Development agenda is \u201cfundamentally compromised\u201d by corporate interests UN records reveal that the intergovernmental body has already marginalised the very groups it claims to be rescuing from poverty, hunger and climate disaster. At the end of this month, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4565,3685,1471,6113,2092,1913,8711,822,826],"class_list":["post-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-big-business","tag-corporate-interests","tag-corporatism","tag-insurge-intelligence","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-sustainable-development","tag-sustainable-development-goals","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11852,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}