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American delegation opposes UN Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
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The American delegation to the United Nations (UN) rejected the organization’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Loss and Damage Fund. The fund is supported by developed nations and compensates developing countries for environmental and weather-related damages.
The UN has led the ESG movement since at least 2005, when it introduced its Principles for Responsible Investment. Last week’s American opposition to the UN’s environmental policies indicates the U.S. government's new priorities under President Donald Trump (R).
According to ESG Dive:
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The nation’s new stance on the SDGs surfaced during remarks made by Edward Heartney, a minister-counselor at the U.S. mission to the UN, on a resolution to create an 'International Day of Peaceful Coexistence.' This resolution also included a reaffirmation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Heartney said the 2030 agenda and SDGs 'advance a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.' He added that 'globalist endeavors like Agenda 2030 and the SDGs lost at the ballot box' in the U.S. November election. … The U.S. also announced the same day that it was exiting the board for the Loss and Damage Fund, which was established during COP27 in 2022. The creation of the fund was the culmination of years of pressure from developing nations most vulnerable to climate change and, notably, the highlight of the UN’s climate change summit that year. The fund aims to help financially compensate for losses and damages from natural disasters spurred by climate change.[1] |
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- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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