How the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnership

A new agreement with the World Economic Forum gives multinational corporations influence over matters of global governance.

Harris Gleckman

Anew corporate and government marriage quietly took place last week when the leadership of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to partner with each other. While this MOU is proudly displayed on the WEF website, it is nowhere to be found on the UN website. The only indication on the UN website of this important new development is a picture of the pen used to sign the agreement, and two pictures of the signing ceremony.

One reason for this difference is that the UN’s corporate-centered Global Compact has received a good deal of bad press. Now the new WEF-UN agreement creates a second special place for multinational corporations inside the UN. There is no similar institutional homes in the UN system for civil society, for academics, for religious leaders, or for youth. It is hard to imagine a national government signing a similar formal partnership with one of its business organizations.

At the same time, the UN is under pressure from Donald Trump who wants to deconstruct the whole multilateral system. For Trump, dismantling the international system built after World War II is a companion piece to his domestic effort at deconstructing the administrative state. For the Secretary-General of the UN, the pact with the WEF may well be his effort to find new power actors who can support the current system, which is now celebrating its 75th anniversary, in the face of Trump’s onslaught.

On the other side, the WEF recently received significant public criticism after giving Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and Brazilian President Bolsonaro a warm welcome at its 2019 Davos gathering. This marriage may be seen as a way for the WEF to re-establish itself as part of the global governance center.

The timing and managing of public perceptions are not the only interesting aspect of this arrangement. In 2009, the WEF published a 600 page report entitled the Global Redesign Initiative, which called for a new system of global governing, one in which the decisions of governments could be made secondary to multistakeholder led initiatives in which corporations would play a defining role. In a sense this WEF study recommended a sort of public-private United “Nations” – something that has now been formalized in this MOU. The agreement announces new multistakeholder partnerships to deliver public goods in the fields of education, women, financing, climate change, and health.

The rather detailed MOU includes forms of cross organizational engagement up and down the UN structure. The MOU contains commitments that the Secretary-General himself will be invited to deliver a keynote address at the WEF annual Davos gatherings. His senior staff and the heads of the UN programmes, funds, and agencies will also be invited to participate in regional level meetings hosted by the WEF. It also contains a promise that the UN’s individual country representatives will explore ways to work with WEF’s national Forum Hubs. Aware of the mutual importance of public legitimacy each institution can provide for the other, the MOU also contains an agreement to cross-publicize their joint activities.

Besides the institutional blessing of the United Nations, what does the WEF get from the MOU? The scope of each of the five fields for joint attention is narrowed down from the intergovernmentally negotiated and agreed set of goals to one with more in line with the business interests of WEF members. So under financing, the MOU calls only for ‘build[ing] a shared understanding of sustainable investing’ but not for reducing banking induced instabilities and tax avoidance.

Under climate change, it calls for ‘ …public commitments from the private sector to reach carbon neutrality by 2050’, not actions that result in carbon neutrality by 2030 . Under education, it re-defines the Sustainable Development education goal to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education’ into one that focuses on education to meet the ‘rapidly changing world of work.’ The MOU explicitly restricts the WEF from making financial contributions to the UN, which might have ameliorated the economic impact of some of Trump’s threat to the budgets of the UN system. At the same time, it avoids any commitment to reduce global inequality, to make energy affordable, to hold multinational corporations accountable for human rights violations, or even to rein in the behavior of the WEF’s firms that act inconsistently to the re-defined goals set out in the agreement.

All this joint work might have some practical good if it were not for three crucial elements: firstly, the agreement circumvents the intergovernmental review process; secondly, the agreement elevates multistakeholderism as the solution to the problems with the current multilateral system; and thirdly the proposed multistakeholder partnerships are not governed by any formal democratic system. Were the Secretary-General convinced of the wisdom of a UN marriage with the WEF, he could have submitted the draft MOU for approval by the member states. Instead, the Secretary-General joined the WEF in declaring in effect that multistakeholder groups without any formal intergovernmental oversight are a better governance system than a one-country-one-vote system.

All multistakeholder governance groups are largely composed of a self-selected group of multinational corporations and those organizations and individuals that they want to work with. They work without any common internal rule book to protect the views of all who might be impacted by the group. Participation in multistakeholder group is a voluntary undertaking. The drop-in-drop-out arrangements are antithetical to the UN’s efforts for 75 years to build a stable secure global governance system with a clear understanding of obligations, responsibilities and liabilities.

What is surprising is that by accepting this marriage arrangement with the WEF, the Secretary-General of the UN is marginalizing the intergovernmental system in order to ‘save’ it.

Open Democracy 2nd July 2019

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/how-united-nations-quietly-being-turned-public-private-partnership/?source=in-article-related-story

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REFERENCING THE GOVERNMENT’S TRAFFIC LIGHT RESPONSE FOR COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS

The new traffic light system revealed by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday will see freedoms restored to fully vaccinated New Zealanders
And those who haven’t received two shots of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine will be largely excluded from eating at restaurants, attending concerts and festivals, and even getting a hair cut.
In other words, those who remain unvaccinated will experience a limited version of daily life in society. THIS IS MORE THAN A WARNING ITS AN EXTREME THREAT
“If you want summer, if you want to go to bars and restaurants, get vaccinated,” Ardern said. “If you want to get a hair cut, get vaccinated. If you want to go to a concert or a festival, get vaccinated.

If you want to go to a gym or sports event, get vaccinated. If you’re not vaccinated, there will be everyday things you miss out on.”
RED = Working from home encouraged. Those vaccinated can visit restaurants attends events with same limits as this on level 2. Limit gatherings limiting 10 people
ORANGE- Close to normal life for vaccinated. But is not because they cannot spends time with their unvaccinated friends at restaurants. Stricter gathering limits, no gyms or hairdressers
GREEN- Essentially normal life for vaccinated, retail hospitality all open no limits. But must be vaccinated. Those venues that don’t use vax certificates they have a limit of 2 customers
As the Government openly publicaly say they are targeting Maori and Pacifika. The Government playing its old game of racist divide, the have’s and have nots.
Divide the nations, let them destroy each other. Power play, control over all peoples. Everyone loses their freedom, compliant or not. This smells of Nazi Germany and the overbearing evilness of a Chinese Communist Regime.

This is a psychological technique that’s being used. ‘Registered clinical psychologist Dr Sarb Johal says it’s important to continue to address the concerns of people in our social circles who are unsure about getting vaccinated:
“Don’t give up on them.” In other words, even if you mentally abuse them, manipulate them and neglect them, torture their minds. Just don’t give up, keep pushing. Do the governments work for them.
This is a bullying tactic, emotionally bullying, and when a number of family members do this its called narcist. A narcist tactic to beat and bully individuals into submission, make them feel guilty, and shame them.
As this psychologist said People roll up their sleeves when they realise they have limits placed on their daily lives. “We have a few weeks, these is going to be critical”
THE FOX SAID TO THE HENS “ITS OK TO COME OUT NOW”

UN Agenda 2030 states that all global targets, there are 169 global targets and 17 SDG’s, Global development Goals. 17 of 18 refer to Climate Alarmism.
14 of 17 Global Strategy for Vaccines. Decade of Vaccines. Leave No-one behind. Everyone, everywhere at every age (UN Global Strategy of Vaccines 2011-2019)
UN Agenda 2030 states that all global targets are aspirational, with a scale or a traffic light system, accompanied by a checklist. How to monitor and assess progress, a global indicator, one that has no agreed methodology.
Thus the UN Environment, with the support from the OECH and other partner institutions, is the custodian agency responsible for developing a methodology that is universally applicable by all countries. (Using a traffic light response)
Indicating progress or not, preferences, demands etc., to accelerate UN Agenda 2030. A traffic light system for policy coherence for UN Agenda 2030 17 SDG’s and the 169 Targets
Resolution as to UN Agenda 2030-Transforming our World. Each Government sets its own targets guided by these global goals.
Benchmarking of the UN Agenda 2030 SDG’s identify qualitive intersections between the AHI Indicators and the SDG Indicators,
AHI INDICATORS -‘Asset Health Indicators’. January 2011 the World Economic Forum . It’s complex. A measurement of a condition of an asset.

The interactions are coloured based on a traffic light system. (Assessment System). Each are assigned a score between zero and three. Zero = Red, 1 = Orange, 2 = yellow (amber) and Green = 3.
In January 2011 the World Economic Forum reported the emergence of a ’New Asset Class’. Data collected on who we are, who we know, where we are, where we have been and where we plan to go.
Mining and analysing this data thus giving the ability to understand, predict where humans focus their attention and activity at the individual, group, country, global level.
This generating a new wave opportunity for economic, societal creation.
The WEF report documents the types and value of personal data collected as being vast. Profiles, demographic data, medical records, bank accounts, employment data, including our likes and dislikes and purchase history.

Our web searches and sites visited. Our tweets, emails, phone calls, photo’s, video’s as well as the coordinates of our real world locations. The list is vast and extremely variable and continues to grow.

Corporations, large companies, businesses use this data to support service and delivery of their business for their investors that can be monetised. Governments employ personal data to provide critical public services more effectively.
Researchers accelerate the development of new drugs and treatment protocols using this emergence of Asset Class system, that will spur a host of new services and applications. This is called the new ‘Oil’ a valuable resource for the 21st century. (Equals online investors)
This is known as an emergence of a new asset class touching all aspects of society. It’s core, personal data represents post- industrial opportunity. Its unprecedented complexity, velocity and has global reach.

A communications infrastructure, a personal data opportunity that will emerge in a world, where nearly everyone and everything is connected in real time, as the global elite, the Multistakeholder Capitalist wealthy greedy corporations, Bigg Tech, Big Pharm and Bayer-Monsanto will emerge in a global Eco political system, post the destruction of the Free-market Economy
For individuals, populations this will require a new way of thinking, behaving, hence we have behaviour modification in our midst, controlling people into compliance, obedience.
Re-engineering your life from the old normal to the mew normal to reward the wealthiest, elitist, leftist, socialist, Marxist, communist, most power hungry in this world today.
Green Traffic Light for instance =is given between the intersection of UN Agenda 2030/SDG indication 1.4. access to basic services for households.
Amber could denote concepts measured by Asset Health for social trust in business and government. (A measurement accumulated by the personal data collected about individuals, groups etc.,)
The Traffic Light System is a benchmark based on comparison between Asset Health domains and indicators at to UN Agenda 2030 SDG’s, based on judgements..
In some cases, SDGs fit into more than one AHI domain, and so were allocated into more than one domain. More than one indicator, traffic light colour.
With the talk of banks introducing a cashless society, which is clearly on the books. The Consumers Commissioner March 2009 documented on the WEF Report “Personal data is the new ‘Oil’ of the internet and the new currency of the digital world”
The World Economic Forum document states “Indeed, rethinking the central importance of the individual is fundamental to the transformational nature of this opportunity, this will spur solutions and insights”

As personal data increasingly becomes a critical course of innovation and value, business boundaries are being redrawn. Profit and Personal Data for large Multistakeholder Capitalist Corporations and large businesses.

The WEF back in 2009 reported that tensions were rising about the misuse of data, general public were becoming uneasy ‘about what they know about us’. There are fundamental questions about privacy, property, global governance, human rights.
However the WEF states “we cannot just hit the pause button” and let these issues sort themselves. “Building this legal, cultural, technological and economic infrastructure enabling the development of this personal data eco-system is vitally important.”
“It is in this context that the World Economic Forum launched a project entitled “Rethinking Personal Data” in 2010.
The intent of this multiyear project is to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders – private companies, public sector representatives, end user privacy and rights groups, academics and topic experts.

The aim is to deepen the collective understanding of how a principled, collaborative and balanced personal data ecosystem can evolve.
NZ Parliament has introduced the ‘Digital Identity Trust Framework Bill 2021 a few days ago’, and introduced the ‘Traffic Lights Response’ which relates to UN Agenda 2030.
On the 13th June 2019, the UN and the WEF signed an official partnership agreement to accelerate UN Agenda 2030. The WEF takeover of the UN was strongly condemned as a Global Public-Private Governance of the World

FIAN INTERNATIONAL (For the right to food and nutrition) stated that hundreds of CSO’s reiterate condemnation of the partnership[ between the corporate world with the UN. They called on the UN Secretary General to end it.
The agreement grants transnational corporations preferential access to the UN System at the expense of UN Member States and public interest actors.
That this partnership undermines the mandate of the UN as well as its independence. “This WEF and UN agreement formalises an extremely disturbing corporate capture of the UN.
It moves the world dangerously towards a privatised, undemocratic global governance”. Corporate influence has been long wielded in the UN System, however under the terms of 2019 of the UN-WEF partnership, the UN will be permanently associated with transnational corporations.
In the long term it will allow the WEF to be advisors to a One World Governance. Corporations in the global industrial food chain alone destroy 75 billion tons of topsoil annually, are responsible for the loss of 7.5 million hectares of forests. Leaves 3.9 billion unfed malnourished people.
The WEF represents the interests of those who destroy the environment and abuse Human Rights and personal property rights.

In 2019, Ardern speaking at the WEF Davos Meeting stated “While the government’s plans to move away from traditional methods of measuring growth and development are in keeping with a global push for a more purposeful capitalism, new metrics may be difficult to quantify and could take years to refine.
2019 well a couple of years and we are there. 2021.Her National State of Happiness Report. ..UN Agenda 2030 14 out of 17 global development goals -Here we are living the ‘UN Global Strategy for Vaccines 2011-2019, Leave No-one Behind. Everyone, everywhere at every age. 2020-2030 The Decade of Vaccines. Forget the sheep enter the lions.
UN Agenda 2030, leave no-one behind, everyone, everywhere at every age. Accelerate UN Agenda 2030 calculations. Traffic Light Response. And Ardern’s Zero Carbons Eco-politics.
Controlling, re-engineering the minds of everyone in the world. Ardern and her political cronies destroying, being traitors to all New Zealanders in favour of a Private-Public One World Governance.

That is destroying our country, as we all sit on the edge of a suicidal cliff, the edge of a precipice. THIS IS CONTROL, COMPLAINCE, SLAVERY, DICTATORSHIP, COMMUNISM. USING THE TRAFFIC LIGHT RESPONSE
https://www.fian.org/en/press-release/article/wef-takeover-of-un-strongly-condemned-2273
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_ITTC_PersonalDataNewAsset_Report_2011.pdf
https://www.sdg16hub.org/system/files/2019-05/The-Role-of-Multi-Stakeholder-Partnerships-in-Implementing-the-2030-Agenda-1-1.pdf

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PFIZERS STATE CORPORATE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

PFIZER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE AND POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS REPORT
The Pfizer political action committee, Pfizer PAC, is a nonpartisan organization that provides opportunities for employees to participate in the American political process. The Pfizer PAC is an employee-run organization with a steering committee made up of Pfizer employees from around the country. When choosing to make a contribution to a candidate, the Pfizer PAC considers candidates’ views on issues that impact Pfizer and its employees as well as the presence of Pfizer facilities or employees in the candidate’s district or state. The PAC steering committee reviews and approves all recommendations for PAC contributions on a monthly basis.

Pfizer’s procedure that limits Pfizer colleagues’ campaign and election activities during working hours also restricts the use of Pfizer resources to support federal and state candidates, political parties and political committees.

PFIZER PAC Leading the Conversation. What is a PAC? PAC stands for Political Action Committee. A political action committee is a government-regulated organization that anyone can form to raise money for political campaign donations. PACs are formed by individuals, non-profits, and even many major corporations. How Does P izer PAC Work? The Pfizer political action committee, Pfizer PAC, is a nonpartisan organization that provides opportunities for employees to participate in the American political process.

The Pfizer PAC is an employee-run organization with a Steering Committee made up of Pfizer employees from different divisions of the company. All corporate PACs are funded by voluntary employee contributions. Pfizer PAC is no different; it relies on the participation of Pfizer colleagues. Who Receives Pfizer PAC Contributions? Pfizer PAC is nonpartisan. It supports Democrats and Republicans who support policies that impact our purpose: Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. From January 2019 through December 2020, Pfizer PAC supported 950 candidates. When choosing to make a contribution to a candidate, our Government Relations colleagues consider candidates’ views and voting record on policy issues that impact patient access to breakthrough medicines and vaccines as well as the impact on our employees and Pfizer facilities in the candidate’s district or state. A complete list of Pfizer PAC and state corporate political contributions for January 2019 – December 2020 is included in this report.

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PFIZER 2017 ANNUAL REVIEW – THE POWER OF SCIENCE

The year 2017 was the second year supporting our 2020 Supply Chain Environmental Sustainability Goals. We have an extensive supply chain, ranging from suppliers of general commodities to specialized active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers. All are expected to adhere to Pfizer’s supplier code of conduct and align with the PSCI principles. In addition, we have chosen to engage with a subset of our key suppliers to advance our environmental sustainability program. One hundred and fifty-eight suppliers were part of the 2017 survey and we have seen progress made on all elements of the 2020 Goal, including managing environmental impacts and instituting sustainability reduction goals.

Transforming Our Approach to Clinical Trials Clinical trials have long been the most time-consuming, complex and expensive element of drug development. Today’s leaps in technology and ‘big data’ analytics, combined with breakthroughs in the understanding and medical application of human biology, are radically transforming the way drugs are developed; however, new methodologies must preserve the paramount goals of protecting patients and evaluating potential risks as well as benefits. Pfizer is seeking to modernize clinical trials by pursuing what Rod MacKenzie, Pfizer’s Chief Development Officer, calls ‘extreme optimization.’ He explains: “We have one big job

It centers on the unique relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in Europe and the importance of protecting your heroes. In France, Precious Moments demonstrates the importance of vaccination to new parents through an engaging and relatable narrative

It centers on the unique relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in Europe and the importance of protecting your heroes. In France, Precious Moments demonstrates the importance of vaccination to new parents through an engaging and relatable narrative

An innovative partnership with the International Rescue Committee that provides access to vital health interventions by creating a one-stop-shop for the delivery of immunization and family planning services. Through a collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation we are working to help broaden access to Pfizer’s long-acting injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press (medroxyprogesterone acetate), for women most in need in some of the world’s poorest countries. Since the collaboration launched, with the help of a consortium of organizations from both the private and public sectors, more than 16 million units have been shipped across 23 countries in the developing world, potentially reaching more than 4 million women

PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW FOR THE FULL PFIZER 2017 REPORT:-

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PFIZER COMBINES SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PHILANTHROPY – AN APPROACH TO ACCELERATE UN AGENDA 2030

AUG 09, 2018

Whether you are taking a look at its business model or its corporate headquarters in New York City, it does not take long to realize that Pfizer is all in on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Pfizer was the first multinational pharmaceutical giant to join the U.N. Global Compact in 2002. Now, the company is utilizing its resources in conjunction with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), to bring health care to people around the world — but the company is not stopping there.
Understanding its role as a global leader in care, Pfizer has moved to bring its business and social initiatives together, explained Chris Gray, senior director for institutions and public reporting. The results have led to a cohesive business plan while also advancing the greater good through the SDGs.
“The way in which Pfizer and other corporations are addressing these types of societal challenges [addressed by the SDGs] has evolved significantly in the past decade,” said Gray during a recent edition of 3BL Media’s webcast series titled “Aligning Business With the Global Goals.” “We approach our social mission in a much more holistic manner today with the SDGs, including not only traditional philanthropy but a blended approach through commercially and socially sustainable business models and many more partnerships. We have the passion and commitment among our employees and our leadership to be addressing the goals that were set by the U.N. under the SDGs.”

Pfizer sees a connection between its work with SDG 3 and the other 16 goals laid out by the U.N. almost three years ago. Gray explained the interdependency between the goals means that making good health care accessible could, for example, keep children in school and allow women more freedom to pursue opportunities. This is a driving force for the company’s corporate responsibility goals, made evident by its 2017 Annual Review, and has led to numerous present and future initiatives to achieve various health targets within SDG 3.
But how does a Fortune 500 company, or any company for that matter, strike a balance between people and profit? According to Gray, the process starts by properly positioning the SDGs in business terms for Pfizer’s commercial partners.

While substantial investment will be needed, the Business and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC) estimated that fulfilling the SDGs could lead to $12 trillion in estimated market opportunities across food and agriculture, cities, energy and health and well-being. According to the BSDC’s 2017 “Better Business Better World” report, health-related opportunities within the goals have a potential value of $1.8 trillion in 2030.
“The role of the business sector is critical, and what we found was some of the support we need internally from our business colleagues requires some proofpoint,” Gray said. “Some of the thought leadership, research and publications that have come out around the SDGs provides a more precise articulation around the alignment between the private- and public-sector benefits. As we work to marshall the engagement and commitment of our commercial colleagues, these types of engagements are really important.”

https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2018/pfizer-combines-sustainable-business-philanthropy-holistic-approach-sdgs/11211

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