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Day 4/4. As we are heading towards the closing ceremony of the Summit is evening, September 23, 2024, with a focus on Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow. It’s trite that the summit is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation on critical challenges and address gaps in global governance. Two interactive dialogues took place just as we did yesterday. 1. Towards a Common Digital Future aimed to strengthen inclusive innovation and cooperation to bridge the digital divides. This session highlights the importance of collaboration to ensure no one is left behind, especially in developing countries. 2. The second dialogue, The Future Starts Now: Enhancing the Global System for Current and Future Generations, focused on enhancing the global system to benefit both current and future generations. This session likely built upon the outcomes of the previous day's discussions, including the adoption of the Pact for the Future, which includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. Throughout the Summit, world leaders emphasized the need for effective global cooperation, recognition of the immense benefits of digital technologies, and the importance of mitigating risks associated with them. The event is concluding with the adoption of the Pact for the Future, which happened yesterday, September 22, 2024 marking a significant step towards a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable future for all.

The Summit of the Future offers a chance to commit to bold new solutions. It provides an opportunity to create international mechanisms that better reflect the realities of the 21st century and can respond to today's and tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. The Summit of the Future has 5 inter-governmentally negotiated, action-oriented Pact for the Future, with 56 action statements and 5 key objectives. The five Pact for the Future includes: 1. Sustainable development and financing for development; 2. International peace and security; 3. Science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation; 4. Youth and future generations; and 5. Transforming global governance. By working together, we can achieve a safer, more peaceful, just, equal, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future. You can join the ongoing Summit of the Future via the link below: https://lnkd.in/dRjVk_B2 #OurCommonFuture #SDGsCatalyst

Global cooperation is at a crossroads. While overall collaboration has flatlined, driven by heightened geopolitical tensions and instability, positive momentum in areas of climate and nature, innovation and technology, and health and wellness offer hope.   The Global Cooperation Barometer 2025, developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, underlines the urgency of innovative, flexible approaches to partnership as leaders navigate a more disordered global landscape. Strengthening cooperation remains essential for addressing shared challenges and achieving sustainable growth and resilience. #WEF25 #GlobalCooperation2025 #SustainableGrowth   Read more at https://bit.ly/4gLdevK

The Summit of the Future will bring world leaders together to: ✅ accelerate efforts to meet our existing international commitments ✅ take concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities This will be achieved through an action-oriented outcome document called the Pact for the Future which will be negotiated and endorsed by countries in the lead-up to and during the Summit in September 2024. The result will be a world – and an international system – that is better prepared to manage the challenges we face now and in the future, for the sake of all humanity and for future generations. Learn more: https://bit.ly/SotF2024

THE SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE Who says we're not headed toward a New World Order? World leaders are gathering at the UN the week of Sept. 20-23 at "The Summit of the Future" to possibly say otherwise. "The Summit is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future," their website says. "Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using outdated structures that no longer reflect today’s political and economic realities." https://lnkd.in/gvJvfiMd Synopsis & analysis - https://lnkd.in/g42AHYtB

World Economic Forum (WEF) The Global Cooperation Barometer 2025 – Second Edition [7 January 2025] https://lnkd.in/g7Q2YCpJ or https://lnkd.in/gEAaaa6j Global cooperation is at a crossroads. While overall collaboration has flatlined, driven by heightened geopolitical tensions and instability, positive momentum in areas of climate and nature, innovation and technology, and health and wellness offer hope. The Global Cooperation Barometer 2025 offers a comprehensive assessment of global collaboration broadly and across five pillars: trade and capital, innovation and technology, climate and natural capital, health and wellness, and peace and security. By analysing 41 indicators, the report identifies areas of progress and stagnation, highlighting the complexities of cooperation in a world marked by economic uncertainty, geopolitical divides and rapid technological advancements. The findings underline the urgency of innovative, flexible approaches to partnership as leaders navigate a more disordered global landscape. Strengthening cooperation remains essential for addressing shared challenges and achieving sustainable growth and resilience. This is the second edition of the Global Cooperation Barometer. The first edition is available here.

Today the World Economic Forum launched the second edition of the Global Cooperation Barometer in partnership with McKinsey & Company. The Barometer measures the state of global cooperation broadly and along five dimensions, finding that cooperation has stalled at the aggregate level over the past three years but there are some promising signs in several key areas. As Børge Brende and Bob Sternfels note in the foreword of the accompanying insight report, amid a complex and more contentious global climate, “while the geopolitical dial won’t, and shouldn’t, turn back to the order of the past, it must turn more towards cooperation.” Read the full report here: wef.ch/GlobalCooperation25

Today, we launched the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company's Global Cooperation Barometer 2025, a vital report that takes a comprehensive look at the state of global #collaboration at a time of significant uncertainty. #GlobalCooperation25 The Barometer is being released when many new governments are charting their courses for the year ahead. While geopolitical tensions and instability have caused overall collaboration to stall, there are signs of growing cooperation in several specific areas. The Barometer uses 41 metrics to examine the state of global cooperation along five essential pillars: #trade and capital, #innovation and #technology, #climate and natural capital #health and wellness #peace and security. What the Barometer shows is that cooperation is not only essential to address crucial economic, environmental and technological challenges, it is possible within today’s more turbulent context. Discover in full here https://lnkd.in/eZkbftzJ World Economic Forum

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Excerpts from the UN Summit of the Future Press Release United Nations adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance New York, 22 September 2024 – World leaders today adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. This Pact is the culmination of an inclusive, years-long process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow. The most wide-ranging international agreement in many years, covering entirely new areas as well as issues on which agreement has not been possible in decades, the Pact aims above all to ensure that international institutions can deliver in the face of a world that has changed dramatically since they were created. As the Secretary-General has said, “we cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.” Overall, the agreement of the Pact is a strong statement of countries’ commitment to the United Nations, the international system and international law. Leaders set out a clear vision of an international system that can deliver on its promises, is more representative of today’s world and draws on the energy and expertise of governments, civil society and other key partners. “The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations open the door to new opportunities and untapped possibilities,” said the Secretary-General during his remarks at the opening of the Summit of the Future. The President of the General Assembly noted that the Pact would “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all peoples and nations.” The Pact covers a broad range of issues including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance. There are provisions across the Pact and its annexes for follow-up action, to ensure that the commitments made are implemented. The Summit brought together over 4000 individuals from Heads of State and Government, observers, IGOs, UN System, civil society and non-governmental organizations. In a broader push to increase the engagement of diverse actors, the formal Summit was preceded by the Action Days from 20-21 September, which attracted more than 7,000 individuals representing all segments of society. The Action Days featured strong commitments to action by all stakeholders, as well as pledges of USD 1.05 billion to advance digital inclusion.