UK Ambassador to the UN declares UK’s commitment to UN’s Agenda 2030

In September last year, Tom Woodroffe, the UK Ambassador to the ECOSOC, declared the UK’s commitment to delivering the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Why are we bringing this up now, more than five months after the event? To remind readers that our government is not working towards goals that would benefit UK citizens, it is working towards the goals that will benefit the United Nations (“UN”).

As we will hopefully demonstrate, the goal of the UN, or at least one of them, has always been depopulation.

We have not given our approval that this is how our public funds should be used or that civil servants’ time should be occupied fulfilling the United Nations’ desires. The UK government has committed us, without our consent or authority, to achieve destructive goals set by unelected, unaccountable and largely hidden from public view bureaucrats and oligarchs. Goals which threaten our inalienable rights and freedoms, as well as our livelihoods, quality of life and even our lives.

Our government appears to have forgotten that the primary source of public funds comes from various taxes we pay such as income tax, national insurance contributions and value-added tax. Only about £100 billion of the £1 trillion raised by the government is not from taxes, i.e., non-tax receipts. We pay these taxes in good faith assuming the government will use the money to the benefit of the UK and its citizens.

Tom Woodroffe’s Speech

Tom Woodroffe was appointed as the UK’s Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council (“ECOSOC”) in July 2019. It was his second appointment to the UN in New York, having previously covered human rights and gender issues.

Previously Woodroffe served as the Head of the UK’s Syria Overseas Network in Istanbul, as Deputy Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Conflict Department, as head of the Office of the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and various roles in the FCO’s UN and human rights departments.

ECOSOC is one of the six UN principal organs. It is responsible for the direction and coordination of the economic, social, humanitarian, and cultural activities carried out by the UN and is the UN’s largest and most complex subsidiary body.

It was established by the 1945 UN Charter which allows ECOSOC to grant consultative status to nongovernmental organisations (“NGOs”).

At the UN General Assembly meeting on the SDG Summit Political Declaration held in September 2023, Woodroffe gave a speech.

The Summit aimed to review the state of the Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the 2030 deadline for achieving the SDGs. The declaration highlighted the collective commitment to “build a sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous world by 2030,” with a strong focus on the means of implementation, particularly on financing for development.

“The UK remains fully committed to delivering the universal vision for economic, environmental, and social development set out in Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. With seven years to go, our collective promises are in jeopardy. We need robust political will and commitment to greater action to get them back on track,” Woodroffe told the Summit.