The 78th UNGA Session was a big one! With the SDG Summit, Climate Week, the Summit of the Future Ministerial, Health and Pandemic Summits and so much more, the following overviews highlight a few key moments as well as events co-organized by GGIN and partners in September 2023.
From the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need
📆 September 16 (as part of SDG Action Weekend), 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm EST
📍 UNHQ Conference Room 4
📲 This event took place as part of SDG Action Weekend. View the UN Web TV recording above.
Hosted by Coalition for the UN We Need, the Global Governance Innovation Network, and partners, this session will discuss how the 2024 Summit of the Future may best accelerate the implementation of the outcomes agreed at the SDG Summit by promoting effective UN reform for a stronger, more accountable and inclusive multilateral system.
This side event will present an Open Letter to World Leaders focused on seizing this once-in-a-generation opportunity to review and improve global tools for managing global challenges. It will feature the participation of communities with tremendous first hand experience including persons with disabilities and persons discriminated against based on work or descent, alongside youth representatives, leading scholars, UN diplomats, and former statespersons. It will encourage more ambitious, forward-looking thinking and deliberation on global governance renewal and innovation in the run-up to the Summit of the Future following the SDG Summit.
Representing a truly generational opportunity for making the UN and broader global governance system more inclusive and effective, the September 2024 Summit of the Future is only one year away. Complementing the 16 September SDG Action Summit session on "From the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need," while taking advantage of civil society representatives visiting New York for UNGA High-Level Week, this Coalition for the UN We Need advocacy strategy session will map out concrete action steps for the coming year designed to fully maximize the SOTF's potential and the critical contributions of civil society worldwide. This roll-up-your-sleeves planning meeting will give special attention to key moments of advocacy for the year ahead.
📍Baha'i International Community, 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120
📲 This event took place on the sidelines of UNGA78. See event details here, including the Climate Governance Commission UNGA Statement.
A diplomatic and civil society roundtable, featuring H.E Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Chair of the Elders and lead Chair of Climate Governance Commission.
The Climate Governance Commission, will be present and represented in New York City for UNGA/Climate Week sharing perspectives on urgent recommended governance transformations equal to the climate emergency. The Commission is an independent body established to propose, and build partnerships that promote feasible, high-impact global governance solutions for urgent and effective climate action to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C or less. The diplomatic and civil society roundtable at the offices of the Baha’i International Community, “Governing the Planetary Emergency," will feature Commission Chair Mary Robinson, and Co-Chair Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd General Assembly, also with H.E Danilo Türk, President of Club de Madrid on the importance of climate leadership, along with other Commissioners.
The work of the Commission and Chair Mary Robinson will also be featured at the Global Futures Conference 2023 on the 20th of September at the Javits Center.
What to expect from the upcoming SDG Summit?
📆 September 14, 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST
📍Online
Hosted as a conversation between the Global Youth Coordinator at the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN), and representatives of the Permanent Missions of Ireland and Qatar, the co-facilitators of the Political Declaration for the SDG Summit, this webinar will discuss what to expect of the SDG Summit by addressing the following aspects:
How will the SDG Summit raise ambition for SDG implementation?
What can we expect for the 7.5 years left of the 2030 Agenda, and will the SDG Summit address sustainable development beyond 2030?
What are the successes and lessons learned so far that we should keep in mind to strengthen action in the next 7.5 years?
A Second Charter: Imagining a Renewed United Nations
📆 September 19, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
📍Baha'i International Community, 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120
Although the United Nations system and its diverse agencies can point to many successes over its 75+ year history – particularly in social and economic development – the institution’s structure is based on both an inequitable and outdated model that can no longer meet the pressing needs of our time. Although political hindrances to reform are often cited, humanity is at a turning point where the future of present and future generations – and a fragile ecosystem – is at stake. Our presentations will investigate what can be salvaged and what can be created vis-à-vis institutions of global governance, including the feasibility of crafting a Second UN Charter.
Six Issues to Watch at UNGA78
If world leaders and partners step up next week with strong pledges for concrete actions, it'll show that the UN is more than just a talk shop.
Read this piece by Dr. Richard Ponzio, Stimson Center
Nudhara Yusuf unpacks what makes UNGA 78 so important
SDG Action Weekend (Official High-Level Program)
📆 September 16 - 17
📍 UNHQ
To generate additional opportunities for the engagement of all actors, the United Nations is convening an SDG Action Weekend on 16-17 September 2023 which will consist of the SDG Mobilization Day on Saturday, 16 September, and the SDG Acceleration Day on Sunday, 17 September, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The SDG Mobilization Day (16 September) will create an opportunity for stakeholders from all sectors to convene inside the United Nations Headquarters and mobilize towards an ambitious SDG Summit and UN General Assembly High-Level Week. The SDG Acceleration Day (17 September) will be centered around the UN High-Impact Initiatives.
Please click here to view the full programme of the SDG Action Weekend and here to find out more.
The Global People’s Assembly 2023 will be on 17 (Sunday) and 18 September (Monday) in New York – at the UN SDG Summit and the UN General Assembly.
The Global People’s Assembly (GPA) brings people’s representatives together and creates a strong voice at the SDG Summit for the midpoint of Agenda 2030. The assembly will be in-person in the Church Centre of the UN (opposite the UN), with 300 participants expected. Participants can also join online — we look forward to 2000 participants joining virtually, from across the world. Find out more about the 2023 program.
Global Futures Conference (including Global Governance Innovation Report 2023 presentation)
📆 September 19 - 21
📍Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York
The GF23 Global Futures Conference will bring together members of the public and private sectors, science and academia, Indigenous communities and youth from around the globe, to actualize bold steps for governments, corporations and multilateral institutions to push the boundaries of discourse on how we can–and must–act to save our planet.
Our world requires humans to act urgently so that we may repair and relieve the stresses we as a global society have placed upon it. In September 2022, GF22 convened with committed global stakeholders who established the 10 Must Haves Initiative, a comprehensive set of “Must Have” areas with “Must Do” actions that can lead the change necessary to provide a future where all may thrive. To take the next step, our world needs an engaged and committed alliance of global citizens who have authority and access to see these Must Haves and Must Dos are implemented. This is the purpose of GF23.
The Global Governance Innovation Report 2023 will be presented on September 20 as part of the luncheon program at 12.15pm.
GWL Voices Geopolitics Symposium -- with New School students
📆 September 19, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST
📍The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, 63 5th Avenue
📲 Find out more and Register: https://event.newschool.edu/gwlsymposium?fbclid=PAAaYgm6eCTmWOvnB2iL5dEDGvDvY3d9NzSea3lZjw-kdtgPgKDTKQATlrPw4_aem_AeKpyCzrDTAWPZOYZMrGZUAeEYacX1TWdc7hYuBJEZFHedrmNehD359dGHPV9jFCOK0
Global Women Leaders Voices’ mission is to increase the participation of women in multilateralism as a vehicle for improving women’s welfare everywhere. Women are vastly underrepresented in positions of global diplomacy and policymaking. GWL Voices and GPIA are coming together to organize a conversation between diplomats and students. Speakers include:
Susana Malcorra: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Argentine Republic; former Chief of Staff for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon; former Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Operating Officer of World Food Programme.
Helen Clark: Former Prime Minister of New Zealand; former Administrator of United Nations Development Programme.
Catherine Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary-General for Management, Former Executive Director of World Food Programme.
Flavia Brusteo: Former Assistant Director-General for Family, Women's and Children's Health at the World Health Organization; former Vice-Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Amat Alsoswa: Yemen’s first female Minister for Human Rights; former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark; former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme Assistant Administrator.
Fatiha Serour: Deputy Special Representative for Somalia; former senior adviser in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Catherine Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary-General for Management, Former Executive Director of World Food Programme.
Inclusive Global Governance for a Peaceful and Resilient World
The Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) has teamed up with institutions and individuals from around the world to produce strategic inputs into the ongoing UN reform process. Two major such inputs under preparation will be launched at a hybrid event organized by FOGGS on 15 September 2023 in New York, on the sidelines of a number of UN high-level events taking place there in the second half of September.
Global Democracy and the UN - A Global People's Assembly Session
📆 September 18, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
📍UN Church Center, New York and Online
📲 Find out more and Register: https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/events/global-peoples-assembly-session-on-global-democracy-and-the-un/
The Global People’s Assembly convened by Global Call To Action Against Poverty serves as a platform for the voice of the people while heads of state and government meet at the United Nations in New York. The assembly will take place in-person and online on 17 and 18 September 2023. The program will include a session on “Global Democracy and the UN” co-organized by Democracy Without Borders, Coalition for the UN We Need, CIVICUS, Democracy International, TAP Network and The Millennials Movement. The session continues a process of reflection and mobilization in connection with the Global Futures Forum‘s track on “UN and Global Governance innovation” and the We The Peoples campaign for inclusive global governance.
CIVICUS Meet & Greet
📆 September 18, 6:00 pm -8:00 pm EST
📍CIVICUS Office in the WeWork Space, 4th Floor on 450 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 45th street).
The event will be hosted by the CIVICUS Senior Leadership Team. It will provide an occasion to share perspectives on the SDG Summit and UNGA 78.
Rethinking Social Development for People & Planet
📆 September 22, 10:15 am - 14:30 EST
📍Baha'i International Community, 866 UN Plaza, Suite 120
Hosted by Club de Madrid and partners, this Action Lab is aimed at highlighting the urgent need to prioritize social development, framed by a new eco-social contract, for a democratic and just world. The two sessions will take stock of the outcomes of the 2023 SDG Summit and focus on the World Social Summit in 2025 and its pivotal role in accelerating the full implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda. Club de Madrid, under the stewardship of its Members, former democratic Heads of State and Government, and its partners, will harness their unique organizational strengths and international standing to integrate evidence, dialogue, and strategic advice to equip policy and decision-makers at the regional and international levels to respond boldly to the social development challenges of our time.
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