by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-22 15:37:03+00:00
The announcement calls out two things, admission of Palestine as a member state and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Goals are defined here: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

> Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology, and financial services

> Indicator 1.4.2: Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land [...] [This goal seems to state that poor people should own just as much land as rich people. That's insane, but even ignoring that, the goal definitely states that renting is evil and everyone needs to own.]

> Target 1.b: Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

> Target 3.5: Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol

> Indicator 3.5.1: Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol [In other words, the UN considers itself to be achieving this goal if people drink less alcohol than they used to. There is no indicator for problems caused by substance abuse.]

> Target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information, and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

> Target 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including [...]

> Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education [...]

> Target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education

> Target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

> Indicator 4.5.1: Parity indices (female/male, rural/urban, bottom/top wealth quintile and others such as disability status, indigenous peoples and conflict-affected, as data become available) for all education indicators on this list

> Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development

> Target 4.a: Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive [...]

> Target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome [...]

> Target 10.4: Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage, and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality

> Target 10.a: [we're still on the goal "reduce inequality"] Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries [...]

> Target 9.2: Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry's share of employment and gross domestic product [If they really mean this, I'll admit that it swings the opposite way from what I would have expected. I have a suspicion that they don't want this to happen in developed countries. The indicators don't disambiguate. Either way it's a divisive cause.]

> Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change

> Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

> Indicator 12.2.1: Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP ["We want people to have less stuff."]

> Indicator 12.2.2: Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP ["We want people to have less stuff."]

> Target 14.5: By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas

> Target 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

> Indicator 16.b.1: Proportion of population reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months

I wouldn't call this an ideologically neutral set of goals, no.

Target 16.1 seems fine, though I'm a little surprised they didn't use the "By 2030, end all [...]" phrasing.