Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Sustainability Reports

Antonio Guterres warns that COVID-19 is upending our world, threatening our health, destroying livelihoods, and deepening inequality. Six action areas are described-including new ways to work together, a global new deal, new economic measures, and meaningful youth engagement-along with many specific proposals such as a Global Vaccination Plan, a New Agenda for Peace, a UN Youth Office, a Special Envoy for Future Generations, a Summit on the Future, a Futures Laboratory, and a United Nations 2.0 with an expanded Security Council. This review of Our Common Agenda briefly mentions four earlier UN75 reports-a vision for next and future generations, two surveys of people's priorities for the future, and a Sept 2020 General Assembly Declaration outlining 12 Commitments-and a comparison with some of the proposals in Our Common Future, the 1987 "Brundtland Report" from The World Commission on Environment and Development.