The United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) and InnerView are excited to launch the 8th annual SDG Youth Impact Awards. This inspiring program continues to shine a spotlight on young changemakers who are strengthening their communities and accelerating progress for the SDGs. Last year more than 15,000 students were recognized – Kickoff session with US High Schools Learn more at InnerView.org/Awards
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Celebrating 2Million Youth Impact hours for the SDGs with our Champions of Change! Gain access to the latest trends of US students (ages 14 to 24) as they explore issues, develop skills, and explore leadership roles in their community. Following the session, the report is available for download.
Blockchain Central UNGA will bring 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).
The Creative Climate Forum brings together artists, youth, educators, community members, and advocates to explore creative tools for a just and sustainable future. Learn how to dismantle broken systems and spark collective action toward regenerative futures through performances, panels, workshops, and immersive installations. Come activate the power of imagination and collaboration to respond to the climate crisis—together.
Drawing on nearly 30 jurisdictions across every region of the world, this session will launch a landmark study by Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader and the GCSI through a lively, in-person discussion. It will explore how governments are creating enabling environments for social innovation through legislation, national strategies, institutions, financing, public procurement and other policy tools, and what can be learned from approaches around the world.
Sponsored by Netflix and Harvard University, the Youth Global Creative Challenge empowers young people aged 15–24 to articulate their ambitions through impact-led projects presented in compelling multimedia formats. Supported by Youth Studios, the Challenge recognises that influence-building is essential to turning individual ideas into generation-led action — enabling young creators to mobilise peers, shape public dialogue, and develop practical solutions to global challenges.
As development aid declines and significant new private wealth is being created, philanthropy is entering a period of profound change. What would it take for philanthropy to invest more intentionally, and at greater scale, in the people, relationships, capabilities and shared leadership that make sustained progress possible?
We will bring together practitioners and philanthropy to explore what philanthropy and leadership development field may each need to do differently.
Co-sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies and University of Pennsylvania, the Challenge invites young people aged 15–24 to submit a 1,000-word orally narrated video story inspired by real-world events which collectively advance the UN SDGs. Co-hosted by the Multi-Literacy Project, entries should dynamically shape the future direction of meaningful, inclusive youth engagement in decisions that align with UN’s Youth2030 strategy.
Join us in Midtown Manhattan for a day of programming designed specifically for entrepreneurs in climate, technology, and social impact.
Impact State of Mind is a groundbreaking initiative of Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area with leading partners Princeton University’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance, Finpublica, Sustainable Investment Leadership Council (SILC), and XPRIZE.
We’ve heard what entrepreneurs really want from an UNGA event and we’re taking action!
A full day of programming created for investors, funders, business leaders, and other adjacent stakeholders.
Impact State of Mind is a groundbreaking initiative of Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area with leading partners Princeton University’s Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance, Finpublica, Sustainable Investment Leadership Council (SILC), and XPRIZE. This year’s content themes will explore sustainable finance, the economy of climate adaptation, carbon markets, AI and more!
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
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
