People First Community Gathering 2025: The Urgency of Taking the Long Term View

Sustainable development is at a crossroads, with an urgent need to move beyond silos and a narrow focus on technical solutions, to more holistic, long-term approaches that lead to systemic and sustainable change.

As global leaders convene during the UN General Assembly, the People First Community Gathering is a dedicated time to take stock of the current moment, discuss the path forward and explore what more can be done to promote collective leadership for sustainable development.

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Global Goals Summit 2025 (NYC)

The Global Goals Summit 2025 will unite leaders in New York, Nairobi and online to co-create solutions for decent jobs, resilient livelihoods, and inclusive economic opportunity. Use promo code BFPGGS25FRIEND to secure a free online space or apply to attend in person via the event site.

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Global Goals Summit 2025

The Global Goals Summit 2025 will unite leaders in New York, Nairobi and online to co-create solutions for decent jobs, resilient livelihoods, and inclusive economic opportunity. This day is by invitation only. Open sessions are available on 23rd and 24th September.

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Impact For Breakfast – Climate Week

This event is geared for impact investors and other sustainable finance funders to exchange with fellow practitioners and explore how emerging investment practices can shape a greener, more equitable future.

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New Alignments: Climate, Capital, and Common Ground

New Alignments: Climate, Capital, and Common Ground is an event that brings together leaders from business, academia, policy, and finance to explore how unlikely allies can collaborate to drive climate solutions.

​Hosted by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area.

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Financing the Green Economy in Developing Countries

Financing the Green Economy in Developing Countries is a four-part session examining the current funding paradigm affecting emerging markets and how investors can fill the gaps in the decline of development assistance to achieve Green Economy goals.

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The Business Imperative for Sustainability: Panels, Discussions, and Networking Happy Hour

The Business Imperative for Sustainability is a multi-session event that brings together leaders from business, finance, and impact investing to explore how sustainability continues to drive corporate value and growth.

​The afternoon and evening will feature a panel discussion with experts from consumer products, fashion, and banking, curated small group discussions on key sustainability topics, and a networking happy hour.

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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.

YOUNGA Forum

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.

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 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: PeoplePlanet and Partnerships.

International Conference on Sustainable Development

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.