You may have noticed mainstream media either ignoring most of what is going on at the United Nations or actively working to discredit the UN any way they can, and a noticably growing hostility towards the UN from Canada's federal government in the past couple of years. There is a reason for that. 

For most of the UN's history, the United Nations Development Program, along with various UN agencies like the infamous IMF and World Bank, have been allied to the western corporate executive's 'increased economic growth for it's own sake uber alles' economic philosophy, but in the wake of the UN Post-2015 Global Open Consultations On Sustainable Development, and the massive and still growing pile of clear evidence, both scientific and just obvious to anyone paying attention, it appears many of those working in various positions of authority within the UN system have come to realize that there are no jobs on a dead planet. 

While westerners are listening to Rob Ford's crack rants and staring at Hannah Montana's ass, global affairs are undergoing a major change as US global hegemony, both military and economic, is coming to an end and even many among the world's wealthiest have finally come to terms with the fact that the economic system many of them honestly believe will ultimately make everybody happy if people just stop resisting it is actually endangering this planet's ability to support life. But there is still heavy resistance, espcially in the most right wing countries like Canada, which has now ranked last in the Center for Global Development's annual assessment of 27 wealthy nations on environmental protection standards to a UN agency actually having the words "Meeting the challenges of deep decarbonization requires unprecedented problem solving on all fronts: technological diffusion and innovation, infrastructure building, financing mechanisms and financial regulation, policy frameworks, institutional arrangements, business models, consumer behavior, etc." in a key policy briefing to world leaders both political and financial.

We're winning, people.