Expert comment on UN’s Pact for the Future: “It’s difficult not to be cynical about such pacts, when cynicism is justified by past events…”

“No-one would argue with the Pact’s goals of addressing the urgent challenges of the 21st-century: escalating war, poverty and inequality, an unstable and dangerous environment, technological transformations without oversight or moderation. Neverthless, the member states of the UN gave it…