AI for SDGs: From Adoption to Impact is a high-level roundtable exploring how artificial intelligence can contribute to sustainable development across Europe and Central Asia.
Organized by UN Global Compact Network Georgia, with the support of the United Nations Global Compact and in collaboration with UN Global Compact Country Networks across Europe and Central Asia, the event is designed primarily for senior-level executives and decision-makers. It will bring together business leaders, repres
Under the theme “Elevating and Empowering Success,” the Forum brings together educators, youth, innovators and sustainability leaders for a joint Google for Education and Forum of the Future event, co-hosted by Stanford University. Youth advocates will present solutions that equip peers to co-design practical, inclusive responses to sustainability challenges — driving systems-level change and advancing sustainable development across their communities and beyond.
When young minds tackle real-world problems — climate, materials science, health and more — they generate breakthroughs untethered by legacy thinking. Backed by Springer Nature’s publishing rigor and Bloomberg New Economy’s market lens, this Forum empowers youth age 15-24 to turn curiosity into commercially viable innovation. Together with Princeton University and Future of Sciences, let us transform student research into investable, planet-positive impact.
The Challenge is a global youth financial literacy design competition for ages 15–24, with cash prizes for winning teams. Participants choose one of four tracks—everyday money, credit, investing, or financial technology—and submit an one-to-two page classroom lesson plan exploring business, ethics, and stakeholder impact. It is co-organized by Major Money, Adakami, Compassion Connectors Philippines, Finances & Pédagogie, Global Compassion Coalition and KIDsforSDGs, with support from LPI.
Designed to engage students with UN SDGs through activities, the STC SDG Fair is a 1-day booth event held during lunchtime. Students participate in a Stamp Card Rally, visiting booths on Zero Hunger, Quality Education, Good Health & Well-Being, Responsible Consumption, and Climate Action. Each booth contains a 3-5 minute activity, and those who complete all challenges receive a prize. UNICEF is also heavily involved throughout the booth activities.
Youth Voice Festival, in support of SDG Action Campaign, is a virtual showcase of literature and media. Young people aged 13-24 worldwide are invited to submit short media in any medium: written, audio, visual, or film, responding to SDG 4, Quality Education, from their own perspectives. An English translation is mandatory. A review panel of youth in arts will select 8-10 creators to present and take part in moderated discussions. Qualifying entries appear in a free digital anthology by LitLore.
The Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), convened by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), invites you to the launch of its new White Paper, “Supporting a Thriving, Integrated, and More Equitable Science Community Across the Amazon”. This will be held as an official Science Summit event on the occasion of New York Climate Week 2026 and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81).
Youth aged 13-18 pitch solutions addressing the health impacts of climate change. After an interactive icebreaker game, teams then present their ideas to fellow participants. All will receive a Certificate of Participation, with Certificates of Achievement and additional prizes given to the top 3 teams: THB 1,000, 750, and 500 gift cards, respectively. The top three teams will have their pitches showcased via Accollab, a Youth Fellow project of Learning Planet Institute, on Forum of the Future.
The Caffaestro Challenge, launched during World Food Forum 2025, empowers youth to become smarter about caffeine. While calories, protein and hydration are commonly tracked, caffeine often is not — despite its effects on sleep, mood, focus and long-term health. With support of Global Citizen and Harvard University, let us research and innovate on how to log caffeine intake and learn healthier, more sustainable habits. Do you have what it takes to become the next Caffeine Maestro?
The Youth Solutions Lab, organized by JCI and AIESEC during UNGA81, will bring together young leaders and SDG practitioners to turn global challenges into practical action. Following an expert panel, participants will design solutions to real SDG-aligned cases and present their ideas. Outcomes will inform an open-access Youth Solutions Brief, while the Youth Signal Survey will enable participants to continue sharing their priorities beyond the event.
Welcome to the world’s first activist 5v5 football tournament. GGWCup is an all-women 5v5 football tournament for the Global Goals. To qualify as a team, you have to choose one of the 17 UN Global Goals to play and take action for. Details and match day schedule will be revealed soon.
Please reach out to GGWCUP co-founder Majken Gilmartin and Rise for Good team, to hear more about the opportunities to join the coalition of sports for sustainable development in Amman, Jordan in 2020.
This fall, BridgingTheGap Ventures is organizing the inaugural YOUNGA™ Forum, making history as the first-of-its-kind global youth town hall using VR and XR technology. Through an inclusive, forward-looking youth-driven dialogue, YOUNGA will connect young people directly with influential decision-makers and industry leaders to co-create solutions for a more inclusive, sustainable world.
From September 28-30, 1,500 Youth Delegates from around the world will be participating in 35+ Innovation Masterminds, hosted by partners.
SDSN’s Global Solutions Forum brings together sustainable development experts from around the world to showcase how they are implementing local initiatives that are advancing the Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2020, SDSN will take this initiative to the next level, with an innovative event alongside the United Nations General Assembly and the International Conference for Sustainable Development to showcase the eight best solutions coming from SDSNs National and Regional Networks.
This year’s SDG Business Forum, co-hosted by UN Global Compact, UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UN DESA) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), coincides with the start of the UN’s Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs. Now in its fifth year, the SDG Business Forum will showcase companies that are using their influence to lead the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Through panels and keynotes, the SDG Business Forum will examine a new form of leadership that has emerged during this crisis – a generation of executives and rising professionals who understand that there are no successful businesses in a failing world. In this context, the private sector – in partnership with governments and civil society leaders – is leveraging the framework of the SDGs to respond to immediate threats in their communities and remedy three critical fragilities which have been exposed by events of 2020: climate change and nature loss; social inequality; and economic exclusion.
As the first year of the climate decade draws to an end, Climate Week NYC, taking place September 21-27, will be the major opportunity in 2020 for those with the power to halve emissions by 2030 to showcase amazing climate action and find ways to do more.
In order to make climate conversations accessible to all, Climate Week NYC welcomes virtual events hosted from anywhere in the world to ensure that climate action can still take place. From virtual ocean odysseys and climate ballets to sustainable investment workshops and TED talks, Climate Week NYC is full of possibilities.
This year, the event program is categorized into ten program themes to guide participants in identifying events to attend:
The SDG Action Zone is the foremost collaborative space for engaging world leaders and emerging leaders to supercharge and accelerate solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Over the course of three days during the UN General Assembly on 22-24 September, the SDG Action Zone will convene leading thinkers, actors, creators, and activists through frank debate, challenging discussions, inspiring showcases and interactive exhibitions to drive the exponential change so needed for people and our planet.
A fully virtual SDG Action Zone has the power to create a more transparent, open, and inclusive UN General Assembly The programme will be crowd-sourced through a call for sessions, talks and creative content from people and key actors around the world.
A combination of live broadcasts and online sessions, the SDG Action Zone will provide space for deeper conversations, collaboration and experiences on three core areas for accelerating action on the Goals: People, Planet and Partnerships.
The world as we know it is changing, and now more than ever before, global connection is essential if we are to address today’s uncertain future. This five-day 10th Annual Summit will provide a non-partisan platform for world leaders to share their vision in an open, transparent, and inclusive forum. Crucially, it will prompt those hard, but necessary, conversations with heads of state, CEOs, NGO executives, and change makers, but also with those directly affected by the issues causing division across the globe.
*2020 Annual Summit registration to open on August 3, 2020*
The Sustainable Development Impact summit is the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting for integrating and leveraging the best examples of public-private cooperation, systems thinking and Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to develop the Sustainable Development Agenda.
Taking place during the United Nations General Assembly, the summit engages the most relevant and influential leaders across business, government, civil society, NGOs and academia to collaborate on and address the world’s most pressing problems.
The International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) provides a forum for academia, government, civil society, UN agencies, and the private sector to come together to share practical solutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ICSD brings together professionals from the private sector, academia, government, and civil society, along with students from the world’s top universities. They welcome participants from all sectors and experience levels.
