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Posted 16 March 2024

   

Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Revitalizing Research to Support Multilateral Solutions

United Nations University | Tokyo, Japan Thursday, 20 June - Saturday, 22 June

Hot off the press! Read the Global Policy Dialogue Outcome Report

The General Assembly passed a resolution (A/RES/76/307) to hold the Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow in September 2024. The Summit will serve as an opportunity to renew existing global commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals (as featured at the September 2023 SDG Summit), to strengthen international cooperation and reinvigorate multilateralism, and to secure global consensus towards an “action-oriented” Pact for the Future. Crucial to revitalizing global governance efforts, and ensuring that multilateral systems make a positive impact on people’s lives, is recognizing that challenges to sustainable development (including, for example, ending extreme poverty, social injustice, personal insecurity, and environmental degradation) intersect with threats to human rights and human security. The deep connections between and mutual reinforcement of these global challenges, and the need for innovative, UN system-wide solutions, have never been more acute and urgently needed as now.

ACUNS Annual Meeting 2024 sought to provide a platform for collaborative dialogue on the links between sustainable development on the one hand, and global universal values of human rights and human security on the other, in keeping with the UNU’s mission of providing a “bridge between the international academic community and the United Nations system.”

Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Revitalizing Research to Support Multilateral Solutions

Thematic Categories:

Common Values, Human Rights, and Sustainable Development
International Cooperation in Upholding Human Security Objectives
Inclusion and Participation in Multilateral Decision-making Processes

Featuring:

Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General Of The United Nations
Keynote Address

Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights
Keynote Address

Pedro Conceição, Director Of The Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector Of The United Nations University And Under-Secretary-General Of The United Nations
Opening Keynote Address

Professor Lise Howard, President Of The Academic Council On The United Nations System And Professor Of Government And Foreign Service At Georgetown University
Keynote Address

Global Policy Dialogue in support of the Summit of the Future on Advancing Human Security through a New Global Economic Governance Architecture

Read the Global Policy Dialogue Outcome Report

As an integral part of the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the UN System, from 20-22 June 2024 at UN University, three Global Policy Dialogue (GPD) sessions and a Closing Plenary Session took place on the theme of “Advancing Human Security through a New Global Economic Governance Architecture.” Globally, up to 677 million people were living in extreme poverty in 2022—almost 100 million more than in projections made before the combined crises of the pandemic, inflation, and the war in Ukraine. Moreover, at the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, despite initial positive trends shortly after 2015, an assessment of the SDGs' 140 targets shows that only 12 percent are on track to be met, almost 50 percent are moderately or severely off track, and 30 percent have either seen no progress or regressed below the 2015 baseline. To achieve human security for all, global economic governance innovations are urgently needed for more broad-based, green development.

Objectives:
  • To convene leading policy researchers, practitioners, and advocates to debate and recommend specific global institutional, policy, legal, normative, and operational innovations that could inform the agenda—and help to raise the ambition—of the Sept. 2024 Summit of the Future.
  • To make targeted recommendations for mobilizing support and operationalizing the Bridgetown Initiative for the Reform of the Global Financial Architecture and related ideas introduced in the UN Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda and High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism reports, as well as his International Financial Architecture Reforms policy brief.
  • To expand the knowledge base for more capable global institutions to better cope with existing and emerging global economic challenges and to create new opportunities through effective global action, including with scholars, policy researchers and advocates, and the private sector.

See the outcomes from last year's ACUNS Annual Meeting Global Policy Dialogue here.

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