Hey, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout on your host, Whitney Webb.

This past week in the U.S., we saw the return of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Mike

Bloomberg backed UN Climate Action Race to Zero Resilience Forum in the Prince William

sponsored Earth Shock Prize Innovation Summit. All of these events focus considerable

attention on solutions to climate change and can be seen as part of the preparations for

COP27, the UN's upcoming climate confabs set to be held in Egypt this November. Central

to these conferences and the discussions therein is the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The core of that Agenda are 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. While the SDGs are

often brought up in the context of climate change, examination of the goals make it clear

that climate is a relatively small focus of this Agenda and is only expressly addressed

by just one of the 17 goals. The goals touch every aspect of our lives from the macro

to the micro, from the distant to the intimate, and their promise is more about transforming

our lives and necessarily making them more quote unquote sustainable. Another thing that

becomes quickly apparent when examining the SDGs is that their most ardent supporters

are those who ostensibly have the largest carbon footprints in the world and who also represent

the most predatory institutions and private finance in the corporate world. Do these figures

now care deeply about the state of our planet or is their professed concern a cover for

business as usual? With me today to discuss this and more is Ian Davis. Ian is no stranger

to this podcast and he is also the co-author of the Unlimited Hangout Sustainable Slavery

series which he and I, where he and I are examining the deeper realities behind Agenda

2030 and its 17 SDGs. Ian is a regular contributor to UK column as well as Unlimited Hangout and

he is regularly republished by Offguardian, the corporate report and many other outlets.

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