In September 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres released the report “Our Common Agenda.” The former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfvén leads the U.N. panel that will provide proposals on how this agenda should be implemented. It is clear that the report comes as a direct response to the declaration about The Great Reset made in June 2020 by Guterres and Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum.
“Now is the historical movement of time, not only to fight the real virus, but to shape the system for the post-corona era,” said Klaus Schwab.
Awaiting us is the total digitalization of the world. This agenda goes hand in hand with the mantra “Build Back Better”, which has spread like wildfire among world leaders.
“Our Common Agenda” contains a number of recommendations on how the U.N. can be reformed in order to meet the problems facing the world today. Guterres begins the report by describing the serious situation:
At the same time as “Our Common Agenda” was released, the U.N. also hosted The Food Systems Summit and a High Level Dialogue on Energy. These are two areas that have now become a primary concern in connection with the Ukraine conflict and the European Union’s great dependence on Russian and Ukrainian raw materials such as gas and grain. During his speech to the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on March 22, 2022, Guterres said:
This is paired with other crises and problems such as climate change, water scarcity, poverty, violence and discrimination. The picture painted is a crisis of Biblical proportions. If nothing is done, exacerbated crises await in the future. The report also points to “problems” such as failure to reach consensus regarding facts, knowledge and science.
According to Guterres, there is a solution: if we work together as a human family to achieve our common goals, we can overcome these challenges by using “multilateralism with teeth.” The U.N. is, of course, very central as the leading international organization. Guterres said, “ These challenges can only be addressed by an equally interconnected response, through reinvigorated multilateralism and the United Nations at the centre of our efforts.”
This specifically refers to how Agenda 2030 and the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals will solve the common problems. This will largely be done through the application of digital technology and the surveillance regime of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Therefore, Guterres proposes a summit next year called the “Summit for the Future” with the aim of creating a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do to secure it.
To this end, an Advisory Committee has been appointed to “to make concrete suggestions for more effective multilateral arrangements across a range of key global issues”. These proposals will be presented at the 2023 meeting.
The panel, High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, was appointed on March 18, 2022, and is chaired by former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the former President of Liberia, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2020–2021 she was a member of WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response).
The Secretariat, located at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research, is funded by Ted Turner’s U.N. Foundation and László Szombatfalvy’s Global Challenges Foundation.
The panel includes representatives with links to World Economic Forum, Club of Madrid, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the financial elite organization Group of 30 (founded in 1978 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation).
Special mention should be made of Tharman Shanmugaratnam from the Technocratic model country Singapore who is chairman of Group of 30, board member of the World Economic Forum and a member of the G20 High-Level Independent Panel on global financing for pandemic preparedness and response. Tharman was also chairman of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, which proposed how the G20’s role in the global financial architecture should be changed to create a new international order. He said, “ The role of the G20 in the global financial architecture should be reset. It should focus on developing political consensus on key strategic issues and crisis response.”
This gives a hint of the direction and the agenda. Tharman continued, “The question is: how do we achieve resilience in a new global environment, including a pandemic-prone global environment, as well as growth — how do we avoid a sharp trade-off between resilience and growth?”
But “Our Common Agenda” also gives a clear picture of the direction. An action plan of 12 points has been released as a part of the report. This contains proposals that have been discussed for more than a decade.
This includes a Global Digital Compact, a Universal Digital ID, an upgraded digital U.N. 2.0 and closer cooperation between the U.N. and the G20-system, space technology to monitor carbon dioxide emissions, an ombudsman who will speak for future generations and the establishment of an “Emergency Platform” as a more effective ways to deal with global crises such as COVID-19 and climate change.
The whole agenda is largely reminiscent of the World Future Society’s technocratic ideas from the 1970s and the creation of a “World Brain” to handle the Earth’s processes that futurist Oliver Reiser advocated in his book Cosmic Humanism and World Unity. Reiser wrote:
These proposals have a close connection to the World Economic Forum, the G20 process, and the implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the U.N. Agenda 2030.