HB2788 United Nations; sustainable development; prohibition (Jones: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al.) has passed both houses of the legislature on a party line vote and is going to the governor's desk for approval. It prohibits Arizona or any of its political subdivisions from adopting the sustainable development agenda of the United Nations, which means they are objecting to support for ending poverty, support for achieving food security, ensuring healthy lives, achieving gender equality, and protecting the planet and our ability to live on it by objecting to action on climate change and promoting water sustainability. Effectively, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) apply to all functions of government so, if the governor doesn't veto this bill, state and local governments would be prohibited from spending funds on nearly everything they currently do. As just one example, if state and local governments could not act on target 6.4 of the SDGs, that would make the Groundwater Management Act unenforceable and effectively end water conservation measures in Arizona. It's quite obvious that the partisan legislators that passed this bill don't have any understanding of the SDGs - they just wanted to show their opposition to anything that is "green" or "woke."
Here is the list of UN Sustainable Development Goals showing how broad their scope is.
For more detailed descriptions of the SDGs, targets, and indicators - as well as a wealth of information about global progress (or lack thereof) in achieving the goals, check out the
UN's Sustainable Development Goals website.
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