The Summit of the Future is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future.

Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using outdated structures that no longer reflect today’s political and economic realities. In September 2024, world leaders will convene at the United Nations to adopt the Pact for the Future, which will include a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations as annexes. The world is not on track to meet the goals we have already set for ourselves. Nor are we effectively rising to new challenges or opportunities.

• The speed and complexity of developments have outpaced our systems for cooperating and coping.
• The benefits and opportunities of progress are spread unevenly, with the majority of people left behind.
• The risks and threats are also unevenly felt, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable.

Extreme poverty and hunger are on the march. Global emissions are at their highest levels in human history, as are levels of human displacement. Threats such as climate, conflict, food security, weapons of mass destruction, pandemics and health crises, and the risks associated with new technologies, are growing. Multilateral governance, designed in simpler, slower times, is not adequate to today’s complex, interconnected, rapidly changing world. The Summit is an opportunity to put ourselves on a better path.

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