Das High Level Political Forum (HLPF), das UN-Gremium zur Überprüfung der SDG-Umsetzung, findet in diesem Jahr vom 10-19 Juni statt. Die Major Groups der UN haben beim HLPF ausgewiesenes Rederecht. Zudem können sie im Vorhinein jeweils ein Positionspapier einreichen.
Das diesjährige Thema “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world” des HLPF kann nur erreicht werden, wenn die strukturellen und systematischen Hindernisse zur Erreichung der SDG angegangen werden.
Die Major Group NGO schreibt in ihrem Positionspapier aus diesem Grund:
The 2017 High Level Political Forum addresses the theme “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world,” an imperative that is also a prerequisite for sustainable peace. Achieving these aims will not be possible unless the structural and systemic barriers to achievement – and root causes of exploitation and degradation of the environment – are addressed. Current neoliberal macroeconomic policy is a major driver of unequal distribution of wealth and power and the destruction of natural resources, and must be reconsidered and replaced. Notions of development based entirely on economic growth present a myopic view of progress and must be discarded, and corporations must be held to account for their social and environmental records. We call for a new development paradigm which furthers the well-being of humans, nature and animals, and which sees as its ultimate aim the achievement of equity and justice, to “leave no one behind.”
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