Introduction
We are at an inflection point in history. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call and with the climate crisis now looming, the world is experiencing its biggest shared test since the Second World War.
Humanity faces a stark and urgent choice: breakdown or breakthrough. The choices we make — or fail to make — today could result in further breakdown and a future of perpetual crises, or a breakthrough to a better, more sustainable, peaceful future for our people and planet.
Our Common Agenda is an agenda of action, designed to strengthen and accelerate multilateral agreements – particularly the 2030 Agenda – and make a tangible difference in people’s lives.
Our Common Agenda contains recommendations across 4 broad areas for renewed solidarity between peoples and future generations, a new social contract anchored in human rights, better management of critical global commons, and global public goods that deliver equitably and sustainably for all.
Our Common Agenda presents the Secretary-General's vision on the future of global cooperation through an inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism.
Key proposals
Across the 12 commitments from the Declaration on the Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations
A WAKE-UP CALL
Let there be no illusion: COVID-19 may pale in comparison to future challenges if we do not learn from failures that have cost lives and livelihoods. Our best projections show that a stark choice confronts us...
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WE THE PEOPLES
We urgently need a renewed social contract, anchored in a comprehensive approach to human rights, in the light of the pandemic and beyond, one that allows many more actors to tackle...
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SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS
Young people today, along with future generations, will have to live with the consequences of our action and inaction. It is time to find ways to give more weight to their collective interests...
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NATIONS LARGE AND SMALL
To strengthen the governance of our global commons and global public goods, we need new resolve and ways of working together that are suited to the challenges we face...
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PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
To support the vision for Our Common Agenda, the United Nations also needs to adapt and must provide a platform actively to shape the future in ways that will make it worth living in, and for...
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MOVING AHEAD
This report on Our Common Agenda is intended to advance the 12 themes of the Declaration on the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations through actions...
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