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The Pact For The Future A Blueprint For Revitalizing Global

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the pact for the future a blueprint for revitalizing global

BY Alex Mejia and Daniel Nazarov | 8 November 2024 Summit of the Future, UNHQ © UN archives The Pact for the Future is aimed at strengthening multilateralism and addressing long-term global challenges. What are its most pressing priorities? The Pact of the Future has been a long time in the making: it was based on a report prepared by the Secretary-General called “Our Common Agenda” which has become extremely relevant to the... We all know why multilateralism today is suffering: from situations of war and conflict, the recovery form COVID-19, and from the intensity of disasters and other global events which are shaking our world.

There is strife, there is conflict, there is disease, and there are natural calamities all coming together, making our world very uncertain. The Pact for the Future addresses many issues. First of all, it addresses, from the developmental perspective, the problem that the Sustainable Development Goals, agreed to in September 2015, are not doing well. Everybody knows that very few, in fact only 16%, of the goals and targets are on track. The rest are either stagnant, as they were in 2015, or have actually regressed. Many of the issues that I have mentioned now define our contemporary world and have come about only after 2015.

It is these unexpected shocks which have set back the achievement of the SDGs. In addition, we have seen the exponential increase in the impact of technology, particularly around A.I., and the divides that separate our world in the use and the benefits of technology for benefitting society. At the Summit of the Future on 22 September 2024, world leaders adopted the Pact for the Future and its annexes: the Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations. This historic agreement is the culmination of years of inclusive dialogue and collaboration aimed at modernizing international cooperation to address today’s realities and prepare for tomorrow’s challenges. The Pact for the Future is the most comprehensive international agreement in decades, covering entirely new areas while also resolving issues that have long stalled consensus. Its primary objective is to ensure that international institutions are equipped to navigate a world vastly different from the one in which they were created.

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres observed, “We cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.” The Pact reaffirms global commitment to the United Nations, the international system, and the principles of international law. It envisions a world where the international system delivers on its promises, reflects the diversity of today’s global landscape, and leverages the collective strength of governments, civil society, and other key partners. “The Pact for the Future, together with the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations, unlocks new opportunities and untapped potential,” said Secretary-General Guterres during the Summit of the Future. The President of the General Assembly hailed the Pact as a foundation for “a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all peoples and nations.” The Pact addresses a wide array of critical global issues, with commitments to:

The diplomatic consequences of Mrs Sacoolas Triumph of diplomacy: The Cuban missile crisis EU Digital Diplomacy: Geopolitical shift from focus on values to economic security Early origins of AI in Islamic and Arab thinking traditions The Trump Moment: Global shifts and strategic realignments In the past, UN roadmaps such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development have not only served as markers for multilateral cooperation on climate issues but...

By providing guiding principles and a consensus on the goals and aspirations of global action these roadmaps help align scientific inquiry with policy needs, in a way that fosters the development of actionable knowledge... World leaders recently came together in New York to adopt the Pact for the Future, which also includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. The pact covers a broad range of issues, including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance. The pact is the most wide-ranging international agreement in years, covering previously untouched issues and responding to a need for international institutions to address the needs of a changing world. When it comes to climate issues, the pact makes both numerous explicit references to climate issues – such as the commitment to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly... To date, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have acted as the guiding principle for global efforts in research, policymaking, and innovation aimed at tackling climate challenges.

However, to date, only 17% of SDG targets are believed to be on track, according to the 2024 Sustainable Development Goals Report. In this context, the pact aims to “supercharge” progress towards the SDGs through the development of innovative solutions and approaches. In the realm of climate issues this involves a focus on reinforced commitments, emphasizing the goal of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050; climate financing and increased financial... The U.N. General Assembly has approved a blueprint to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept.

22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters.

(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Prime Minister of Iceland Bjarni Benediktsson speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) European Council President Charles Michel speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept.

22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) NEW YORK, 22 September — World leaders today adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. This Pact is the culmination of an inclusive, years-long process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow. The most wide-ranging international agreement in many years, covering entirely new areas as well as issues on which agreement has not been possible in decades, the Pact aims above all to ensure that international...

As the Secretary-General has said: “We cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.” Overall, the agreement of the Pact is a strong statement of countries’ commitment to the United Nations, the international system and international law. Leaders set out a clear vision of an international system that can deliver on its promises, is more representative of today’s world, and draws on the energy and expertise of governments, civil society and... “The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations open the door to new opportunities and untapped possibilities,” said the Secretary-General during his remarks at the opening of... The President of the General Assembly noted that the Pact would “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all peoples and nations.” The Pact covers a broad range of issues including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance.

Key deliverables in the Pact include: On sustainable development, climate and financing for development (Editor’s note: Author Richard Ponzio also discusses the U.N. General Assembly’s Summit of the Future and high-level week in the Just Security Podcast. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.) More than 130 heads of state and government met at United Nations Headquarters in New York last week amid an expanding war in the Middle East, continued devastating conflicts in Africa and Europe, and...

So perhaps it is all the more remarkable that they mustered agreement on key documents that may re-establish a path toward enhanced global cooperation through the United Nations and beyond. Meeting in the Sept. 22-23 Summit of the Future, and pressed by the energetic advocacy of more than 10,000 civil society representatives in the preceding “Action Days,” the global leaders produced a Pact for the Future, a Global... The hard-fought agreements, though imperfect, should serve as stepping stones for even more ambitious, high-impact improvements down the road in an array of global governance institutions, including in the financial and economic realm, with... Albeit Down to the Wire, the Pact Landed Safely A growing chorus of diplomats had called for “landing the Pact” back in mid-July, when the Namibian and German co-facilitators presented Revision 2.

But it took two more months and four more revisions before the agreement and its two annexes (the aforementioned Compact and Declaration) would reach adoption. Some of the most contentious issues in the concluding weeks were in the areas of climate action, disarmament, international financial architecture reform, and human rights. Countries including Pakistan and Cuba (leading the self-declared “Like-Minded Group”), as well as Russia at times, viewed the Summit of the Future as a distraction at best and, moreover, infringing on their sovereignty and... They worked to thwart the negotiations and erode key actions and associated commitments, including on human rights and climate.

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