The criticised Emergency Platform mechanism has been removed from the Pact for the Future

But we can be assured that the technocrats will try to find other ways to implement the Emergency Platform toolbox within the current system.

In the fourth revision of the Pact for the Future the request to present “protocols for convening and operationalizing emergency platforms” has been replaced with the more watered down: “consider approaches to strengthen the United Nations’ system’s response to complex global shocks within existing authorities”.

This is somewhat of a relief for all of u…