About the UN Summit of the Future
On the 20th -23rd of September 2024, several global dignitaries will be in New York for the Summit of the Future. The summit is convened by the United Nations, through the Secretary-General and aims to focus on the future through three key undertakings. That is;
1. Pact for the Future
2. Declaration on Future Generations
3. Global Digital Compact
The undertakings seek state and government heads as signatories. Like all others previously, seeks to rejuvenate global leaders and other stakeholders’ commitment to economic development, environmental issues, women and gender issues, science and technology, peace and social cohesion, human rights and governance, and multilateralism for the future.
Particularly, building on, and occasionally resounding already existing commitments like the 2030 SDG Agenda. In other words, the three pacts being negotiated can be viewed as creating more pathways to hold states and institutions to action and accountability. Pertinent about them, though interrelated, they provide a detailed view, which is alternatively a complex understanding of the sustainable development agenda with a more futuristic outlook. No wonder the specific attention to “future generations’’ with an independent Pact. This has been traditionally nuanced in the terminologies and aims of sustainability. Also, the focus on a digital compact that seeks to grow the digital sector with more control, responsibility, and productivity is quite a new trajectory that requires our attention.
The summit of the future remains our area of interest to achieve the needed signatures as expected. We are also interested in learning how the forthcoming obligations are implemented, monitored, and achieved, for the future. Importantly, as Mind-Nature Institute, we are already for the present and future, and this framework ought to enhance our mission.
Learn more: https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future