The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals projected on the UN Secretariat building and the west facade of the General Assembly building at UN Headquarters. UN Photo
The 17 “sustainable development goals” included ending poverty, achieving gender equality and urgently tackling climate change.
The Trump administration now says it “rejects and denounces” them. Others included providing clean water and sanitation for all people, quality education for every child and promoting good health and economic growth.
Edward Heartney, a minister-counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said these goals “advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.”
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said all 193 member states voted unanimously to deliver on the goals, and that the U.N. is holding onto it’s guiding principles “to advance a world of peace, prosperity and dignity for all.”
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