For youth, the future of law is human and is focused on innovating legal development, practice, and implementation to collectively catalyze broader system change. This think tank was formed to help youth understand the latest industry developments, key market trends, recent technology changes, and how to succeed in the law industry. Initiatives promoting intergenerational dialogue and action in this area will be featured at this forum.
Events 2023
Forum of the Future: Future of Culture
Culture enriches our lives in countless ways and helps build diverse, inclusive, and resilient communities. No development can be sustainable without a strong cultural component. Through a series of project showcases, the Future of Culture forum explores a human-centered approach to development. Let us rebuild based on mutual respect and open dialogue among cultures to create lasting peace and equity.
Alliance Action Forum – A Spotlight on Regional Perspectives on Embedding Corporate Accountability within the UN System
This forum is a dialogue on the power of collaboration and knowledge-sharing among allies to bring tangible, multi-stakeholder initiatives to life on corporate accountability. It is now clear that measuring and evaluating business impact through increased mechanisms for corporate accountability cannot be achieved by a single organization, government, or stakeholder group. This event will highlight regional perspectives with an emphasis on stakeholders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
UN Global Compact Leaders Summit
Alongside the SDG Summit 2023, during the UN General Assembly High-Level Week, this year’s UN Global Compact Leaders Summit will convene business leaders, UN officials, Government leaders, SDG stakeholders and civil society professionals from across the globe to comprehensively review the private sector’s contribution to advancing the SDGs.
Global Citizen Festival
Join us in Central Park as we call on world and corporate leaders to make commitments to end extreme poverty. Take action now for equity, for the planet, for food and for jobs.
Forum of the Future: Future of Technology
Technology holds the key to resolving the issues we face in an ever increasingly “polycrisis”.
As a global think tank, Future of Technology provides a home for a thriving community of young innovators & entrepreneurs, supporting all who pursue ideas with a passion for world-changing impact.
The Forum will feature speakers addressing societal challenges through research and education at the intersection of technology, business and policy.
Science Storytelling for the SDGs
An evening of storytelling from researchers working at the forefront of SDGs 5, 7 and 10, brought together by Springer Nature and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) for the UN Science Summit.
Sustainable Development in Latin America & Caribbean Summit
A free, virtual 3-day event reviewing the progress, challenges and changes needed to meet SDGs in Latin America region.
Young Think Tankers Pitching Contest
Southern Voice is excited to announce its first Young Think Tankers Pitching Contest. After a review of nearly 300 applications, ten young think tankers have been selected as the contest’s finalists. They come from ten different countries across the Global South. The objective of this brand-new competition is to elevate the voices of young researchers from the Global South and to promote long-term collaboration among them.
Return on Investment: How to Maximize Historic U.S. Climate Funding
The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act together have the potential to catalyze unprecedented investments in an advanced, clean economy—creating millions of good-paying jobs, reducing energy costs, strengthening U.S. competitiveness, and closing opportunity gaps for disadvantaged communities. These two landmark laws are already delivering results, with thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in new investments in states across the country.
Ceres Network Member Event at Climate Week: Turning Transition Plans into Action
The time is now for every investor and company to detail the bold actions they are taking to achieve their climate goals, to support global efforts to limit average temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees, and to accelerate the transition to a net zero economy. We will highlight the tremendous momentum for investor and corporate transition plans and illustrate how Ceres’ CTAP and ICAP Expectation Ladder frameworks interact.
This event is by invitation only.
How Investors and Companies Can Help Protect the Freedom to Invest Responsibly
Special interests and their political allies in Congress and in statehouses across the U.S. are working to ban businesses from integrating responsible investment and business practices into decision-making. Freedom to Invest has rallied hundreds of private and public sector leaders to remind policymakers that the economy will be stronger and more resilient if businesses can make their own investment decisions, considering all material financial risks and opportunities.
A Question of Fit: EV Stakeholder Roundtable
As groundbreaking incentives and regulations accelerate the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers alike, many fleets are focused on ensuring the vehicle market can provide the right EV for each of their cases. Additionally, they search for reliable charging availability for vehicles with varying drive-and-duty cycles and time schedules. Now is the time to address these questions of fit so fleets of all shapes and sizes can access the financial, operational, and environmental benefits of EVs.
Forum of the Future: Future of Investment
A number of deeply-rooted forces – megatrends – are driving fundamental changes within the investment industry.
Join Future of Investment Forum to explore how ongoing changes in the economy, society, and daily life can power growth for people and for planet through a series of presentations, showcases, and panels.
The pace and complexity of change is overwhelming and will only increase – let us work and collaborate to further investment for good.
Forum of the Future: Future of Internationalism
Global cooperation requires bringing together diplomats, practitioners, scholars, and students to explore global challenges and the evolving demands of diplomatic statecraft.
The Future of Internationalism Forum aims to help youth better understand the nexus of theory and practice. Through surveys, presentations, and networking sessions, this event seeks to look beyond the issues of the day and explore the future challenges and impact of domestic politics on diplomacy.
SDG Summit Curtain Raiser 2023
The SDG Summit Curtain Raiser organized by the UN Foundation aims to set the stage for the SDG Summit in September 2023. This event is all about unlocking intergenerational power to work with and for young people, the changemakers of today and tomorrow, to influence the course of global action towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
It’s a chance to share your perspectives and ideas with influential policymakers, and young champions as they take the world stage at the SDG Summit. It’s an early preview into the SDG Summit program, and the opportunity to speak your truth and make an impact.
Goals House UNGA
Goals House will be at Tavern on the Green to convene heads of state, business leaders, NGO’s, activists, thinkers and entrepreneurs to drive action and impact towards the Global Goals. This year promises another busy program with partners, including Bloomberg, HSBC, Bank of America, (RED), Google, Community Jameel, Holcim, Mastercard, Patch, Reckitt, IUCN, Youth Climate Justice Fund, the Gates Foundation and Bayer already lined up to host events, with many more conversations in progress.
Forum of the Future: Future of Engineers
To advance Global Goals, one must bridge disciplines and put science and technology to use in solving critical societal challenges. Future of Engineers serves as a hub by connecting youth and other stakeholders in engineering multi-faceted solutions which will be showcased in this Forum. The aim is to give future generations the skills and confidence to tackle the incredibly challenging problems facing humanity.
Forum of the Future: Future of Sciences
As science continues to evolve, leveraging technology against the world’s top problems will be the key to success. As a youth-led think tank, Future of Sciences focuses on science and the people it most directly affects.
The Forum empowers all to recognize what we have in common with each other as the foundation for innovation, through research presentations and showcases.
SDG Challenge Miami – Launch Event
The SDG Challenge is a student competition that provides practical work experience to mobilize companies, organizations, universities, and students in Miami to advance the UN SDGs. Companies in South Florida will be the key drivers of the challenge and will lay the foundation for students to become the next generation of sustainability leaders.