UN Digest: UNAIDS, UN DESA
UN Digest: UNAIDS UN Digest: UN DESA UN Digest| Stage 1 As a series of touch points each day, UN leaders will share a thematic digest in short ‘explainer’ videos. UN leaders from across the UN System will share the vision for their organization’s efforts responding to the urgency to accelerate action to deliver the […]
Immersive Productions and Performances
Immersive Productions and Performances | Stage 1 9PM MY World 360° 2020 Selection Imagine the loneliness of simultaneously being surrounded by people in a bustling city and yet living alone. 9pm is a story about the issue of loneliness in South Korea, which many can relate to in the wake of COVID-19. Created by Komeil […]
Innovative Solutions: Youth Activism – Changing the game with SDG micro-projects
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host: Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens If every young person started an SDG micro-project, the world would look drastically different in a year. We believe that to achieve real progress in implementing the SDGs, we need to catalyze all global citizens around the world, particularly young people and women. […]
Intergenerational Solutions: Life in harmony for nature
Breakout session | Stage 3 Host: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are a foundation for sustainable development, and thus play a key role in supporting the achievement of all 17 SDGs. Advancing global biodiversity objectives will be key to advancing the SDGs including SDG 14 on life below water, […]
Inclusive Solutions: Game on for climate change
Breakout session | Stage 1 Host: UN Foundation The United Nations Foundation will host “Game On for Climate Action!” during the Zone. Using data to both challenge and inform, the conversation will thread the moment we are in now – young people challenging international climate action, 2020 on track to be the hottest year on […]
Immersive productions and performances
Immersive productions and performances | Stage 1 Rally Call – Moving from Black and White to Living in Full Color The performance includes live music, recorded video, sound and movement, intimate conversation and truth telling by an award-winning Jazz singer and playwright. Participants will understand what it means to leave behind black and white […]
The future of society: Putting intersectionality into practice – inclusion for all
Breakout Session | Stage 2 Host: Business Fights Poverty, Business in the Community, One Young World While in many regions the focus is still on the emergency response to the pandemic, we need to start thinking now about what actions we can take to rebuild better towards 2030. This must include action to tackle […]
The Future of Leadership: When Women Lead
Breakout session | Stage 1 Host: Women Political Leaders The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of evidence based research to deliver on inclusive and sustainable policy solutions. The Reykjavik Index, as well as other data and recent examples of global female leadership throughout the pandemic, clearly show that perceptions play an important role […]
SDG Moment in focus – People
SDG Moment in focus – People | Stage 1 This session will provide a deeper dive into what is at stake, and what is needed for achieving healthy societies, gender parity and ending inequalities and extreme poverty in this current climate. The principals from the UN Development Programme, UN Women and the UN Environment […]
Inclusion: A necessity, not a gift
Lightning Talk | Stage 1 Human Rights and marginality are intrinsically connected. Kolanyane-Kesupile asks how we can work, individually and collaboratively, to ensure that inclusion isn’t the result of benevolent gifting, while recognizing the importance of people on the margins contributing to every inch of progress made? Speakers [tmm name=”inclusion-a-necessity-not-a-gift-2″]