Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Sustainability Reports

Abstract

Antonio Guterres warns that COVID-19 is upending our world, threatening our health, destroying livelihoods, and deepening inequality. Six action areas are described—including new ways to work together, a global new deal, new economic measures, and meaningful youth engagement—along with many specific proposals such as a Global Vaccination Plan, a New Agenda for Peace, a UN Youth Office, a Special Envoy for Future Generations, a Summit on the Future, a Futures Laboratory, and a United Nations 2.0 with an expanded Security Council. This review of Our Common Agenda briefly mentions four earlier UN75 reports—a vision for next and future generations, two surveys of people’s priorities for the future, and a Sept 2020 General Assembly Declaration outlining 12 Commitments—and a comparison with some of the proposals in Our Common Future, the 1987 “Brundtland Report” from The World Commission on Environment and Development.