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What is the UN Summit of the Future?

The Summit of the Future: multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow hosted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22-23 September 2024.

At the Summit of the Future on 22 September 2024, world leaders adopted a “Pact for the Future” that includes:

1. Global Digital Compact and
2. Declaration on Future Generations.

The Pact covers a broad range of themes including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance.

This Pact is the culmination of a years-long process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow.

The pact also talks about:

1. Global leaders agreed on a step-change in financing for the SDGs and closing the SDG financing gap.
2. Leaders also agreed to accelerate the implementation of commitments on Women and Peace and Security and Youth, Peace and Security.
3. The Pact introduces measures to reduce global disparities in science, technology and innovation.
4. The Pact aims to expand and strengthen youth participation in global decision-making, including in UN intergovernmental bodies and processes.

One more thing, what all developments led to “Summit of Future”?

In September 2021, the Secretary-General responded with his report, Our Common Agenda, a wake-up call to speed up the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and propel the commitments contained in the UN75 Declaration. The report called for a Summit of the Future to forge a new global consensus on readying ourselves for a future that is rife with risks but also opportunities. The General Assembly welcomed the report and agreed to hold the Summit on 22-23 September 2024.

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