Candidate Platforms: How They Overlap
by: Kathleen Beebe
Caleb McClellan-Great Crossing High School
-Global Cooperation
-International Justice
-Sustainable Communities
Shelby Hamm-Martha Layne Collins High School
-Hunger
-Sustainable Cities/Communities
-Peace, Justice, Strong Institutions
Isabelle Logsdon-Lafayette High School
-Stopping Abuse
-Quality Education
-Climate Action
Eliza Keeth-Scott County High School
-Justice
-Good Health
-Responsibility
Levy Deckard-Sayre School
-Climate Action
-Industry, Infrastructure, and Innovation
-Gender Equality
Sam Berman-Kentucky Country Day
-Quality Education
-Decent Work and Economic Growth
-Peace, Justice, Strong Institutions
Nolan Cotton-Desales High School
-Gender Equality
-Water Sanitation
-Climate Change
Elizabeth Pitts-Heritage Christian Academy
-Provide books to rural areas
-Promote the establish of wind turbines
-Dig wells in third world countries
Billy Salmon-Adair County High School
-Clean Water
-Education
-Poverty
Garrett Kneisler-Butler Traditional High School
-Zero Hunger
-Quality of Education
-Life on Land
Savannah Grubbs-Muhlenberg High School
-Life Underwater
-Climate Action
-Quality Education
Overlapping Platforms:
As we are representing the UN, many candidates look to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals to find the platforms they support and data behind them. More information on these can be found at https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/. But, it is where these platforms overlap that we can find what the world’s next leaders feel are the most pressing issues. Any platforms that 2 or more candidates have bookmarked as one of their platform signals that these are not issues to take lightly.
Climate Action:
Climate Change is a constant topic in the news and has been mentioned in many speeches so far, including our very own Secretary General’s. A whopping seven Candidates included this in their platforms.
Education:
We are all fortunate to be at this conference to expand our knowledge, but not all are as lucky as us. Many people around the world are not allowed to have full education, especially girls. Six Candidates included this in their platforms.
Clean Water:
Clean Water is something that affects many countries, islands, and cities. It goes hand in hand with pollution, since that is one of the main causes of dirty water. Three candidates included this in their platforms.
Economic Disparity:
Economic Disparity appears in different ways in these platforms. Whether it be Poverty, Industry, Infrastructure, and Innovation, or Decent Work and Economic Growth, three candidates included this in their platforms.
Peace, Justice, Strong Institutions:
This sector of the goals of the UN involve preventing homicide, trafficking, sexual violence. All of things previously mentioned are largely invisible issues in many countries and three candidates included this in their platforms.
Gender Equality:
Like most of the issues on this article, they have national recognition. Gender Equality is something that is constantly talked about in the world of sports, government, pay, and workplace. Two candidates included this in their platforms.
Hunger:
World Hunger is something that plagues our world. Food is a necessity and shouldn’t be something that only a handful of people get. That is why two candidates included it in their platforms.
Sustainable Communities:
Goal #9 on the UN’s list states the point of this platform the best: “There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.”
Justice:
Many countries face insurmountable political stability, whether that be within the government or civilian unrest. Turning a blind eye is something that should not happen. Two candidates included this in their platforms.
