For the ninth consecutive year, MY World Mexico and the UN SDG Action Campaign organize the Global Week to #Act4SDGs to commemorate the anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development and the SDGs through a week of in-person and virtual activation where people and organizations from all sectors accelerate moments and activities that promote sustainable development. It’s a joint call for accelerated action of Peace for Sustainable Development
SDG 8: ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Path for Partnership: Forging an Authentic Canada-Africa Relationship
ONE, in partnership with Global Citizen and Results Canada, invites you to a pivotal event focused on redefining Canada’s engagement with Africa. Join us to explore how strengthening this partnership can advance health, sustainable development, and economic growth. Engage with thought leaders and stakeholders to address barriers, share solutions, and foster strategies for mutual benefits. Your participation is key in shaping a dynamic, development-focused future for both Canada and Africa.
Africa at the Forefront of Global Financing Solutions
This policy event will focus on African-driven ideas, and feature leaders who are working to find common ground in tackling some of our most pressing challenges. Registration required!
SDG Impact Award – Launch Event
InnerView and United Nations Association USA officially launch the 8th Annual SDG Youth Impact Awards.
This year-long journey offers opportunities for US High School students and communities to be recognized for personal action for the SDGs. In 2023-24 more than 18,000 students earned honors and delivered progress to create a better world for all.
SDG Challenge Miami 2024
The SDG Challenge Miami is a student competition that delivers a transformational journey to mobilize companies, organizations, universities, and students to advance the UN SDGs and contribute to the region’s sustainable growth. The Challenge serves as a platform to activate college students to critically think about present-day sustainability topics and stimulates action to work together with leading companies in South Florida.
Planet Positive 2030 Miami
Accountable Impact in collaboration with IEEE, the world’s largest Technological Association focused on Advancing Technology for Humanity, Miami Dade College Earth Ethics Institute is launching Planet Positive 2030 Miami. Miami community members will come together to Imagine the Future We Can Build Together for how a “Planet Positive” Miami will look in 2030 in alignment with the UN SDGs.
ACTIVATING SDG 5- Bridging the Gap between Women’s Health and Women’s Economic Empowerment
As World leaders come together in the 79th UNGA to discuss on the theme “Leaving no one behind: acting together for the advancement of peace, sustainable development and human dignity for present and future generations” and with the upcoming Summit of the Future, one key conversation to be prioritized is on accelerating access towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goal 5. This is based on the fact that SDG 5 is still a long way from fulfillment, especially in developing countries.
Private Sector Forum
This year’s Forum will bring together 50 influential leaders—including CEOs, investors, Heads of State and Government and senior UN officials—for a candid, forward-looking dialogue on how to scale up private capital for sustainable and inclusive development.
This event is by invitation only.
Unstoppable Africa
Since its inception in 2022, the Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has convened global private sector leaders, CEOs, investors, industry leaders, philanthropy, academics, UN leaders, and heads of government at its various convenings. The annual flagship event, Unstoppable Africa, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, has witnessed the active participation of 10 Heads of State and over 8,000 participants.
8th Annual Blockchain Central UNGA
Global Blockchain Business Council’s 8th Annual Blockchain Central UNGA takes place alongside the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the Offices of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) in New York City. Blockchain Central UNGA brings together thought leaders and changemakers across blockchain, government, technology, and industry to examine how we can leverage blockchain-powered solutions to accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ghana House
Impact Hub Accra will take over Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area for a full day of Ghana-focused networking, issue focused round-table and panel discussions (2030 SDGs), and united calls for action. West African food provided! Register your interest now to get full updates on the schedule as it becomes available in August.
Forum of the Future 2025
With an eye towards the future, successful long-term development requires active conversations and debate, to ensure blueprints remain aligned with changes in global affairs.
Forum of the Future will amplify the outcomes of UNGA80 on an intergenerational and international basis.
Google for Startups and J.P. Morgan will jointly co-host this annual forum.
Future of Economics Forum 2025
Future of Economics is a youth-led think tank which, through an interdisciplinary approach to learning and applying economics, fosters multi-stakeholder action towards a thriving society.
To collectively advance towards UN80 commitments, the Future of Economics Forum hosts youth presentations, research showcases and experimental workshops on eight key areas of economics.
University of Chicago: Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is a co-host of this Forum.
Catalysing Research Convention 2025
The convention aims to highlight the urgency of encouraging and empowering sound and suitable research methodology for changemakers across all age groups to advance the 2030 Agenda.
There will be expert showcases, research presentations and prototype demos in order to share knowledge to the wider Global Goals Week community.
MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) will co-host the event.
Learning and Skills for Sustainable Youth Development Dialogue Series – UNGA 4th Edition
The event will focus on two themes: Learning to Earning: Equipping youth for the future of work; and Investing in Youth: Co-creating solutions in a disrupted world.
It will explore bold, collaborative approaches and contribute to the development of critical skills for youth that address some of the world’s most pressing issues facing the next generation.
Global Goals World Cup in Amman
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.
Global Solutions Forum
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.
SDG Business Forum
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.
SDG Action Zone
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.
Concordia Annual Summit
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*