Hey, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout. I'm 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, and the Prince William-sponsored Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit.

All of these events focused considerable attention on solutions to climate change and can be seen as part of the preparations for COP 27, the UN's upcoming climate confab set to be held in Egypt this November. Central to these conferences and the discussions they're in 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 than 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 there 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, 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 Corbett Report, and many other outlets. You can follow and support his work at Ian Davis.com. That's IAI-N-Davis.com. Thanks for joining me today, Ian. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you, Whitney. Thanks very much for having me. Absolutely, my pleasure. And who else would I have since we're writing a

series on this very topic together? It makes the most logical sense. Good point. Good point.

Right. So as I mentioned earlier, our series on this is called Sustainable Slavery. We currently

have two installments out. One is called Sustainable Debt S debt slavery. And the most recent one is

Ian's piece on UHC 2030, the United Nations Global Public Private Partnership for Healthcare,

which is focused around Sustainable Development Goal 3. And I'll be having an upcoming one

on the SDG. I think it's number 11 or no. I haven't written

down somewhere. I think it's, let me find it. It's 14. Sorry. There's 17 of them. I've got

first dibs on seven. Oh, okay. All right. Well, we'll work that out when we're not recording a

podcast on it. But anyway, we have two installments up now. We have more upcoming in the future,

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