Immersive productions and performances

Immersive Productions and Performances | Stage 1 United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives Recognizing the power of creativity in spreading critical public health information across languages, cultures and communities, the SDG Strategy Hub, based in the UN Office for Partnerships, issued a global call to arms to creatives everywhere to respond to the United […]

Accountability during COVID and its impacts

Breakout Session | Stage 2 Host: Connected Development During such unprecedented times such as COVID-19, many African countries were forced  to look to their leaders in the hope that they would lead and guide their nations through and onwards out of the  pandemic. With large sums of donations pledged towards the fight against COVID-19, this […]

Act Now

Lightning Talk Every one of us can help limit global warming and take care of our planet. By changing our habits and making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment, we have the power to confront the climate challenge and build a more sustainable world. AWorld, a platform built to drive people toward […]

Reimagining the future of food: What if?

Reimagine Talk | Stage 1 It’s time to ask yourself the question, what if? Are you ready to reimagine the future of food? Speakers [tmm name=”reimagining-the-future-of-food-what-if”]

IMMERSIVE PRODUCTIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Immersive Productions and Performances |Stage 1 The future is ours: Uncle Sam’s Alphabet Soup by Meera DasGupta The Future Is Ours: Uncle Sam’s Alphabet Soup is an original work, written, performed and filmed by Meera DasGupta. It speaks to civic engagement and ways to promote the quality of life in communities. Girl Be Heard cast […]

Closing Session: Rising Up for our Lives with Vanessa Nakate

Closing Session | Stage 1 Closing the ‘Planet’ day of deep-dive dialogues, shared stories and innovations, this session will enforce our direction of travel on climate action. Vanessa Nakate, a global leader in the Fridays for Future movement and founder of Rise Up Movement, will be invited to present her vision of where we go […]

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, […]

Indigenous Solutions: For a fair and green recovery

Breakout session | Stage 2   Host: Global Alliance of Territorial Communities Achieving the world we need and want depends on enhancing indigenous and local communities contributions to sustainable development in both regional and global levels.  One of the insights to be shared in this session is related to mechanisms that ensure strong and resilient […]

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 From screens to the streets: Art for people and planet GreenPoint Innovations, the UN SDG Action Campaign, the Climate Group/Climate Week NYC and partners have teamed up for GreenPoint EARTH 2020 #Screens2Streets to invite artists all over the world to share how the Sustainable Development Goals inspire them, […]