Interactive Dialogue 4: The Future Starts Now: enhancing the global system for current and future generations.
Our actions today will impact the future of billions of those yet to be born. Therefore, the world must accelerate progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, addressing existing and emerging challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, as well as sea-level rise and other environmental concerns, pandemics, conflicts, nuclear weapons, while pursuing progress and a future that is more just and sustainable for the people and the planet.
This interactive dialogue will facilitate discussions on policy actions and collaboration for the stewardship of our planet and to safeguard the needs and interests of the present and future generations by eradicating poverty and hunger, reducing inequality, promoting, protecting and respecting the human rights of all as well as addressing the vulnerability and preparedness of the most vulnerable around the world. It will also address gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, a foundational component to unlocking progress across all the SDGs. Ensuring the rights of women and girls is essential to achieving justice and inclusion, fostering economies that benefit everyone and securing a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable future for present and future generations. The importance of having a reinvigorated multilateral system and aspects of intergenerational dialogue in decision-making would also be reflected upon in this dialogue.
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The Summit of the Future (22-23 September 2024) is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps in global governance, reaffirm existing commitments including to the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Charter, and move towards a reinvigorated multilateral system that is better positioned to positively impact people’s lives.
The Summit of the Future is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future.
Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using outdated structures that no longer reflect today’s political and economic realities.
World leaders will convene at the United Nations to adopt the Pact for the Future, which will include a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations as annexes.