UN, WEF Fear Agenda 2030 May Fail
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
NEW YORK (Worthy News) – World leaders gather this year at the United Nations in New York to speed up the global “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” amid frustration over a lack of progress, organizers say.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the U.N. revealed that the 18-19 September summit comes as the Agenda’s “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) might fail.
Writing for the WEF website, Mandeep S. Tiwana noted that Agenda 2030 “suffered unforeseen setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, major negative impacts of climate change, and the rising cost of food and fuel everywhere due to the conflict in Ukraine.”
That could undermine the WEF’s Great Reset Initiative for “sustainable economic recovery” and its predictions about the world in 2030, including: “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy. What you want, you’ll rent, and it’ll be delivered by drone.”
In an advanced unedited version of a report, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned: It’s time to sound the alarm. At the mid-way point on our way to 2030, the SDGs are in deep trouble.”
The report “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet” concluded, “many of the SDGs are moderately to severely off track.”
In the report, reviewed by Worthy News, Guterres cited poverty as one of the critical areas where Agenda 2030 may fail the world. “Since 2015, global poverty reduction was already slowing down. But the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reversed three decades of steady progress with the number of people living in extreme poverty increasing for the first time in a generation.”
CURRENT TRENDS
Given current trends, “575 million people (nearly 7 percent of the world’s population) will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030 compared to 800 million in 2015 (or 10.8 percent),” he stressed.
Shockingly, the world is back at hunger levels not seen since 2005 – and food prices remain higher in more countries than in the period from 2015-2019.”
He also expressed concerns that “it will take 286 years to close gender gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws.”
And in education, “the impacts of years of underinvestment and learning losses are such that by 2030, some 84 million children will be out of school. And 300 million children or young people who attend school will leave unable to read and write.”
Yet Guterres fears that “Eradicating extreme poverty will be particularly difficult in sub-Saharan Africa and conflict-affected areas. Despite the expansion of social protection during COVID-19, over 4 billion people globally remain entirely unprotected.”
He proposed “a surge in action and investment to enhance job opportunities and extend social services to the most excluded,” which “is crucial to delivering on the central commitment to ending poverty” and tackling “climate change.”
However, critics argue that the Agenda 2030 push by the U.N. and WEF will, in reality, lead to a new form of global communism. WEF founder Klaus Schwab has repeatedly spoken about what he coined as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The industrial change would include the joining of technologies like artificial intelligence and gene editing to advanced robotics that blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. World leaders will soon decide if or when Agenda 2030 can be realized.
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