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Last updated: 8 October 2024
The UN’s Summit of the Future
In late September, the United Nations hosted the Summit of the Future—a four-day meeting in New York City, where world leaders backed updated commitments to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
The summit resulted in the adoption of three outcome documents: the Pact for the Future and its two annexes, the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations. It also adopted a Political Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Going into the meeting, expectations from observers were pretty low. While the event took place in the shadow of war in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan, the UN’s language reinforces its own relevance in working towards peace, with the lofty goal of “reimagin[ing] a system of global governance that works for all” to tackle pressing global issues, from climate change to pandemics and the rise of AI.
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