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, […]
Whom to blame?: Rethink Waste Management
Lightning Talk | Stage 1 Let’s Do It World leads World Cleanup Day with the aim to raise awareness about waste, engage and connect people and stakeholders, to cure trash blindness, and change behaviour. World Cleanup Day 2019 brought together 21.2 million people from 180 countries. This story will enforce that global problems need a […]
Dive deeper into the blue economy with the fastest woman to have sailed around the world
Reimagine Talk | Stage 1 The world’s seventh largest economy based on GDP doesn’t belong to a single country, and isn’t even on land, yet, it’s valued at around $3 trillion annually, and supports the livelihoods of more than 3 billion people. It’s the ocean. In this talk, Dona Bertarelli – the fastest woman to […]
Protection for Resilience: Synergizing SDGs to achieve resilient food systems
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host: Stockholm Environment Institute – Asia Little progress has been achieved towards ending hunger in Asia Pacific, and the region continues to suffer from regression of Goals 12 and 13. Furthermore, Covid-19 has disrupted major value chains, including critical food value chains and increased people’s vulnerabilities all over the region. […]
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 […]
SDG Advocates session: Intergenerational dialogue on climate change
SDG Advocates session | Stage 1 Host: SDG Action Zone The Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth will announce the new class of Young Leaders for the SDGs on September 18. Dia Mirza, one of the Secretary-General’s SDG Advocates, was a member of the high-level selection committee that helped to choose the new class. Fitting with […]
Climate and Fragility: Reimagining risk and resilience for a global future
Breakout session | Stage 2 Host: ODI People and our planet face multiple and increasingly complex threats. Vulnerable communities in the poorest countries must navigate an assault course of interrelated threats – exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. From environmental degradation including climate change, increasing economic and financial instability, to the increasing spread of organised […]
The future of work: Digital skills and decent jobs for youth
Breakout Session | Stage 3 Host: Microsoft Rapid technological advances are transforming the world of work, bringing both opportunities and challenges. As “digital natives”, young people tend to be early adopters of new technologies. Strengthening their skills for the future of work and matching their creativity and innovation with technology-based solutions will pave the […]
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″]