Young Pioneers Forum 2022

The Young Pioneers Forum is jointly organized by youth from around the world who will come together to cultivate ideas, solutions, and partnerships, with the goal to solve a wide range of complex global problems from inequality to climate change. The Young Pioneers Forum will feature social impact-driven TEDx-style talks; advocacy around local impact towards the 2030 Agenda; and tips on how to build back better, greener, and stronger.

Unlock the Future of Learning

Unlock the Future of Learning is a high-level multi-stakeholder event adjacent to the Transforming Education Summit, which will bring together major youth-led and youth-focused organizations, education partners and alliances, international organizations, member states, the private sector, and other partners.

Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit 2022

COVID, conflict, and climate change are among a confluence of challenges driving a tsunami of poverty that is already crashing into the lives of vulnerable people and communities around the world. We must all step up as leaders, combining our knowledge, resources, networks and voices to deliver the SDGs. Join us for our annual virtual Global Goals Summit, bringing together people from around the world to share valuable insights and deepen connections. Use promo code GGW22 for free online access.

Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC 2022 marks its fourteenth year as the biggest global climate event of its kind. Bringing together the most influential leaders in climate action from business, government, and the climate community– in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly and the City of New York– Climate Week NYC creates an ambitious platform for our mission to drive climate action. Fast.

Solve Challenge Finals

Solve Challenge Finals is an unparalleled live pitch event, bringing together social impact entrepreneurs and leaders from around the world. Some of the most promising tech-based innovators will join us in New York City on September 18th to share their solutions to the 2022 Solve Global Challenges: The Care Economy, Re-engaging Learners, Climate: Ecosystems + Housing, and Equitable Health Systems.

Global Week to #Act4SDGs

Held from 16 to 25 September 2022, the Global Week to #Act4SDGs mobilization takes place when world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly. During this challenging time, the Global Week will focus on Climate, Justice and Peace, and mark the mid-way point of achieving the SDG Agenda, with a goal of 1 billion actions by 2030. Join millions of people around the world taking action on the SDGs, to show that we can #FlipTheScript for people and the planet.

Better Together World Congress

Co-creating and co-collaborating on our collective future is an important step in our global recovery. How can we advance an intergenerational approach towards the 2030 Agenda? Join youth from around the world as they present their real-life impact through building intergenerational initiatives.

Co-designed by youth from 10 countries, this World Congress will feature SDG Project Showcases, SDG Focus Groups, and SDG Network Events.

Climate Action Project Launch Event

It’s time to take action for the planet — the Climate Action Project is back welcoming classrooms from 145+ countries. Let’s kick things off live from NYC at Global Goals Week. Join us in person and online for live interviews, school visits, teacher chats, and social media takeovers: #ClimateActionEdu

Forever Youth Festival

Youth is both a physical and mental state of being. Through emphasizing holistic health and well-being, we can build a sound and sustainable foundation for humankind to better co-exist with our planet.

Emphasizing healthtech, biotech, medtech and foodtech, the Forever Youth Festival is co-curated by youth from around the world, and will feature presentations by young health advocates, showcases by young researchers, and case studies of higher learning in health.

Integrating Intuition to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

This class will be a practical lesson on the Mechanism of Intuition, and will show how intuition, as an integrated language, can allow the people and communities who practice it to achieve sustainable development. The class will also show how the SDGs can be achieved in the short term as well as statistics, results, and how to accomplish the SDGs with scarce resources.

Baltic Gastronomic Festival

The Baltic Gastronomic Festival is an international event that takes place in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: three sibling countries that offer a wide range of environmentally conscious farming and cooking, and a diversity of local foods across the region. Running from October 1-30, the festival focuses on sustainable and social gastronomy with four themes: farm-to-fork, culinary heritage, circular shift and food waste.

SDG Moment 2022

The SDG Moment serves to place an annual spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals. It takes place as the world faces a deepening cost-of-living crisis that carries huge implications for the advancement of the SDGs, especially in developing countries. Convened by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the Moment will provide world leaders with a platform to showcase the bold actions and solutions that are needed to set the world on course towards achieving the SDGs. The SDG Moment event will set the scene and lead into the Transforming Education Summit, and is expected to build the momentum as we head towards the SDG Summit in 2023.

Reinforcing Cooperation in a Disrupted World: A Strategic Preview of the UN General Assembly

Ahead of the 2022 United Nations General Assembly, political, business, and civil society leaders will join the Financial Times, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, to host this strategic preview of the UN General Assembly which will explore how international cooperation can be utilised to overcome the myriad of geopolitical crises including climate, food, energy, and war; while also asking how multilateralism can be redesigned to be more resilient and effective in the modern day.

Reversing alarming declines in immunization: Building sustainable vaccine demand with and for communities

This event will focus on COVID-19 vaccinations and routine childhood immunizations, and will explore: barriers to restoring and sustaining high acceptance and demand for both COVID-19 vaccines and routine immunizations in LMICs; how misinformation and limited health services are particularly holding back progress for equitable vaccine access and demand; and pioneering practices from LMICs we can build on to drive high vaccination rates through community engagement.

Talking TB: The Road to 2030

Devex and the Stop TB Partnership will bring global health leaders together to focus on what’s needed to accelerate progress for ending TB by 2030. The discussion will explore: the actions and funding needed to implement the Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030; what needs to be accomplished at next year’s 2023 U.N. high-Level meeting on TB; and the digital innovations, vaccine candidates, and promising clinical trials that could lead us to better accessible treatment.

Faith in the future: How faith-based organizations are tackling the hunger crisis

The world is facing an unprecedented hunger crisis. Many food systems are on the brink of collapse due to a combination of conflict, climate change, and the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Faith-based organizations and philanthropies are leveraging their close ties with communities to not only tackle these ongoing crises, but also to build the local-level resilience needed to withstand future shocks. The discussion will include: how tried and tested initiatives are tackling hunger at community levels; why faith-based organizations need more investment to scale up anti-hunger initiatives; and best practices from WFP USA and partners in building local resilience.

KIDsforSDGs Annual Impact Meeting 2022

AIM 2022 celebrates the organization’s global membership reaching over 50 countries. Co-curated and co-designed by youth from 10 countries, the event will focus on three pillars of impact: political, economic and social, and how they intersect. The emphasis is on youth being provided with a platform for co-creating a collective future where the outputs lead to outcomes shared by all of society. Together, we can AIM higher!

SDG Media Summit

The SDG Media Summit returns to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City with the goal of engaging on the most pressing sustainability issues, activating around solutions, and celebrating projects and partnerships that are helping achieve the SDGs.

Just a few days before the 77th edition of the United Nations General Assembly, the summit will bring together up to 150 communications leaders, United Nations representatives, and media experts to highlight the power of media to address pressing global issues and achieve the SDGs.

Global Goals Fellows Forum

The Forum will present on how to adopt the Global Goals into the blueprint of any organization — for-profit, not-for-profit and anywhere in between — to advance the 2030 Agenda.

Through a four-pillared “HERO” approach (Humanitarianism, Empowerment, Resourcefulness, Opportunity), the Global Goals Fellows will guide us on how to stand up and step up as global citizens, and be heroes for future generations.

Be The Change Champion Launch

BE THE CHANGE CHAMPION is a project of iLEAD AFRICA under our Be The Change Initiative: a social change innovation movement to mobilize young people across Africa to take action towards achieving sustainable development by influencing change in their immediate environment.

Empower young people to become advocates of change by leveraging data and technology to make their voices heard, influence government policies, and encourage transparency and accountability in governance.