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1. We, the Heads of State and Government, representing the peoples of the world, have gathered at United Nations Headquarters to protect the needs and interests of present and future generations through the actions in this Pact for the Future. (Pact for the Future, 27 August Draft Version 3 Preamble ¶ 1).
Future planning has always been a fascinating project. It is fascinating in its old or original sense "from Latin fascinatus, past participle of fascinare "bewitch, enchant, fascinate," from fascinus "a charm, enchantment, spell, witchcraft," which is of uncertain origin. Earliest used of witches and of serpents, who were said to be able to cast a spell by a look that rendered one unable to move or resist. Sense of "delight, attract and hold the attention of" is first recorded 1815." (Etymology Online , Fascinate).
These enchantments, this witchcraft, has taken on the pall of science as appropriate to the linguistic-cultural turn from the 18th century and mixed it up nicely with the secularizing Enlightenment project of human directed perfectionism through the guiding forces of social leading forces which, when combined with a Leninism attached to and through arxist theory produces a combination of scientific and political power in the hands of a dedicated organized and institutionalized party which serve as the counterpoint to its analogues in the religious magisteria and in secular though more diffused "lading forced" well marbled within the leading institutions of education, science, politics and economics.
All of this to say that the 21st century may be witnessing a sort of apotheosis of the inclination of aggregated humans to tell people what is good for them, and what to do--not merely because they can, but also because they have been vested with the authority to tel others what is good for them. This inclination is now so well embedded in human social relations (especially in its positive elements--contrast traditional societies in which its leading forces were meant to serve to cultivate and protect customs and norms and work them at their edges (eg Aristotle's Politics).
None of this is bad--or good. But it is important to remember, especially because these underlying structures and the premises which give them authority and legitimacy, tend to be so well embedded in the product of presumption that it is easy to forget that what appears natural and inevitable are neither; just powerfully important choices.
In this century, the impulse toward the perfect has been founded not just on science, but also on the presumptions of "social" science, and with it its hybrid expressions in data based technologies that are meant to leverage both through tools that are both virtual and inevitably self-conscious. Those tools require workers to tend to them, and overseers to direct them. The first form the legions of well trained producers of the inputs necessary for the forward march of progress. The later form the techno-administrators who both define the pathways toward progress and direct and deploy the production of the worker castes. In a sense the interactions between techno-produces and their directorial consumers are undertaken within platforms in which those exchanges can be ordered and rationalized and then exported to the objects of all of this--human mass organizations. That projection and those platforms are constituted in ways that suit the cultural context and historical conditions in which they are applied--to those ends ideological ordering structures are useful. The result is that one can better understand ideological frameworks not as the generative but the consequential forms of the current state of the basic human impulse toward progress as it is currently manifested through the interaction of consumers and producers of "progress."
Until the later part f the last century, these trajectories were embedded in social relations constituted as states. After 1945, and slowly thereafter, the collectives of states developed sometimes more robust institutions in which their authority could be leveraged through sort of joint action. The problem has been that in order to achieve its states have to abandon to some extent, the locally contextually relevant and ideologically driven cloaks over the manifestation of the operation of this progress platforms in localities. That remains a work in progress; progress, as they understand it, though, appears to be unrelenting, in accordance with the basic premise of the contemporary organization of human social relations. And thus the loop.
And thus we come to the United Nations--as the formally constituted state driven platform for progress--and its long gestating Summit for the Future, its future; our future it seems.
The high-level event will bring together UN Member States, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, the private sector, and youth under the theme, ‘Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow’. The Summit aims to forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it. * * * Guterres has characterized the Summit of the Future as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate global action, recommit to fundamental principles, and further develop the frameworks of multilateralism so they are fit for the future”. (Summit for the Future).The spectacle that marks the end of the construction of the vision for the future and the start of the process for its realization, such as it will be, is scheduled for 22-23 September 2024 in the UN New York office. The full text of the Press Release follows below (with links to generative documents). And yet it is in the underlying documents that create the platform for progress, including its managerial and guidance structures, that ought to be of great interest to those with an interest in peering into the heart of this particular Enlightenment-Leninist -Magisterial vision of a platform through which a specific vision of progress is sketched and the course of compliance mapped.
In the style that has become standard in this stage of historical development, That platform will be visualized through a framework "Pact for the Future," the several revisions of which to date have been posted online, the 3rd version of which, released 27 August 2024, also follows below. That is the heart, the textual core, around which the platform for progress is created and its course charted (or rather its pathway constructed. And like most human hearts, it is bound up in its past, now reorganized, rearranged and projected into a future. In some sense, the Pact is a coordinating and aggregating document--a master framework suitable for coding. Pact, supra, 5, ¶ 67 ("A transformation in global governance is essential to ensure that the positive progress we have seen across all three pillars of the United Nations’ work in recent decades does not unravel. We will not allow this to happen."); Acton 41-60). But it is also inherently narcissistic; a document fundamentally concerned with placing the United Nations at the center of power relations (Pact, chp. 5 ¶ 69). ) (That is no criticism but rather a conformation of the semiotics of power relations; one in which the objectivity of the core is a necessary foundational element in its signification; thus signified it can then order the community around and through which it is constituted. Every directed future requires a shepherd.
16. We reaffirm our pledge, made on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, to reinvigorate global action to ensure the future we want and to effectively respond to current and future challenges, in partnership with all relevant stakeholders. We recognize that the well-being of current and future generations and the sustainability of our planet rests on our willingness to take action. To that end, in this Pact we commit to sixty actions in the areas of sustainable development and financing for development, international peace and security, science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation, youth and future generations, and transforming global governance. (Pact, Preamble ¶ 16).
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Whatever its direction, the glamour of progress is irresistible and returns one to the element of fascination in its construction. And so is its presumptions of linearity and morals. That concoction of premises distinguishes the human and forms an essential part of what orients human consciousness. A signal, a direction, a purpose,an orientation, a basis of comparison and judgment, a goal. These worthy objects, basic to the constitution of the human will, when sufficiently distilled, also form the basis of the generative intelligence that humanity will create to serve these purposes; and perhaps its own. But that is a story for later. For the moment, one adds another platform of progress into a formidable universe of such platforms. In solidarity there is reality.
The high-level event will bring together UN Member States, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, the private sector, and youth under the theme, ‘Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow’. The Summit aims to forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it.
In 2020, in the Declaration on the Commemoration of the 75 Anniversary of the United Nations, Member States called on the Secretary-General to develop recommendations for addressing current and future challenges. Secretary-General António Guterres subsequently issued ‘Our Common Agenda,’ which identifies options to rebuild global governance cooperation and multilateralism within the United Nations and proposes convening a Summit of the Future “to forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and what we can do today to secure it.”
Guterres has characterized the Summit of the Future as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate global action, recommit to fundamental principles, and further develop the frameworks of multilateralism so they are fit for the future”.
Following an announcement of 13 February 2023, the UN Secretary-General released 11 policy briefs offering “concrete ideas” on how to advance Our Common Agenda (OCA) as Member States prepare for the Summit of the Future. The briefs focus on: 1) the needs of future generations; 2) improving the international response to complex global shocks through an emergency platform; 3) more systematic participation by young people in decision-making processes; 4) metrics that go beyond gross domestic product (GDP); 5) global digital cooperation on maximizing and sharing the benefits of digital technology through a global digital compact; 6) reform of the global financial architecture; 7) the peaceful, secure, and sustainable use of outer space; 8) a New Agenda for Peace; 9) information integrity; 10) transforming education; and 11) ‘UN 2.0.’
In line with a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution outlining the modalities for the Summit of the Future (A/RES/76/307), the Summit was preceded by a preparatory ministerial meeting on 18 September 2023 where ministers outlined their priorities.
The Summit will adopt a ‘Pact for the Future’ – a concise, action-oriented outcome document, to be agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations.
According to a letter dated 19 October 2023, co-facilitators leading the intergovernmental preparatory process for the Summit of the Future, Permanent Representative of Germany Antje Leendertse and Permanent Representative of Namibia Neville Melvin Gertze, held informal consultations on the preparations of the Pact for the Future on 9 November 2023, where they outlined their approach, timeline, and plans for consultations. Following this initial meeting, the co-facilitators convened a series of closed informal consultations in December “to hear directly from Member States on the substantive issues that they would like to see reflected in the zero draft of the Pact for the Future on a chapter-by-chapter basis.” A a zero draft of the Pact for the Future was released in early 2024. Subsequent revisions were shared in the lead up to the Summit.
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DATE 22–23 September 2024
LOCATION New York City, United States of America
WEBSITE https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future
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1. We, the Heads of State and Government, representing the peoples of the world, have gathered at United
Nations Headquarters to protect the needs and interests of present and future generations through the
actions in this Pact for the Future.
2. We are at a time of profound global transformation. We are confronted by rising catastrophic and existential risks, many caused by the choices we make. Fellow human beings are enduring terrible suffering. If we do not change course, we risk tipping into a future of persistent crisis and breakdown.
3. Yet this is also a moment of hope and opportunity. Global transformation is a chance for renewal and
progress grounded in our common humanity. Advances in knowledge, science, technology, and innovation
could deliver a breakthrough to a better and more sustainable future for all. The choice is ours.
4. We believe there is a path to a brighter future for all of humanity, including those living in poverty and
vulnerable situations. Through the actions we take today, we resolve to set ourselves on that path, striving for a world that is safe, peaceful, just, equal, inclusive, sustainable and prosperous, a world in which human wellbeing, security and dignity and a healthy planet are assured.
5. This will require a recommitment to international cooperation based on respect for international law,
without which we can neither manage the risks nor seize the opportunities we face. This is not an option but a necessity. Our challenges are deeply interconnected and far exceed the capacity of any single State alone. They can only be addressed collectively, through strong and sustained international cooperation guided by trust and solidarity for the benefit of all and harnessing the power of those who can contribute from all sectors and generations.
6. We recognize that the multilateral system and its institutions, with the United Nations and its Charter at the centre, must be strengthened to keep pace with a changing world. They must be fit for the present and the future – effective and capable, prepared for the future, just, democratic, equitable and representative of
today’s world, inclusive, interconnected, and financially stable.
7. Today, we pledge a new beginning in multilateralism. The actions in this Pact aim to ensure that the United Nations and other key multilateral institutions can deliver a better future for people and planet, enabling us to fulfil our existing commitments while rising to new and emerging challenges and opportunities.
8. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to act in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations and its purposes and principles.
9. We also reaffirm that the three pillars of the United Nations – sustainable development, peace and security, and human rights – are equally important, interlinked and mutually reinforcing. We cannot have one without the others.
10. We recognize that sustainable development in all of its three dimensions is a central goal in itself and that its achievement, leaving no-one behind, is and always will be a central objective of multilateralism. We reaffirm our enduring commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable
Development Goals. We will urgently accelerate progress towards achieving the goals, including through
concrete political steps and mobilizing significant financing for developing countries, with special attention to opportunities for young people and the needs of those in special situations. Poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, remains the greatest global challenge and its eradication is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
11. Climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation are amongst the greatest challenges of our time with adverse impacts that are disproportionately felt by developing countries and those in
vulnerable situations. We commit to accelerate meeting our obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement1. We reaffirm the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. We underscore the urgency and importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this critical decade in order to keep global
1 Adopted under the UNFCCC in FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, decision 1/CP.21.
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average temperature rise below 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels and support developing
countries to adapt and respond to the adverse effects of climate change.
12. To live up to our foundational promise to protect succeeding generations from the scourge of war, we must abide by international law, including the Charter, and make full use of all the instruments and mechanisms set out in the Charter, intensifying our use of diplomacy, committing to resolve our disputes peacefully, refraining from the threat or use of force or acts of aggression, respecting each-other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, upholding the principles of political independence and self-determination, strengthening accountability and ending impunity. With challenges and risks to international peace and security taking on more dangerous forms, in traditional and new domains, our efforts must keep pace.
13. Every commitment in this Pact is fully consistent and aligned with international law, including human
rights law. We reaffirm the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the fundamental freedoms enshrined therein and we will place the full enjoyment of human rights and dignity at the heart of our actions to implement the Pact. We will respect, protect, promote and fulfil all human rights, recognizing their universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness and we will be unequivocal in what we stand for and uphold: freedom from fear and freedom from want for all.
14. We recognize that our efforts to redress injustice and to reduce inequalities within and between countries to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies cannot succeed unless we step up our efforts to promote tolerance, embrace diversity and combat all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance and all their abhorrent and contemporary forms and manifestations.
15. None of our goals can be achieved without the full, safe, equal and meaningful participation and
representation of all women and girls in political and economic life. We reaffirm our commitment to the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, to accelerating our efforts to achieve gender equality, women’s participation and the empowerment of all women and girls in all domains and to eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls.
16. We reaffirm our pledge, made on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, to reinvigorate global action to ensure the future we want and to effectively respond to current and future
challenges, in partnership with all relevant stakeholders. We recognize that the well-being of current and
future generations and the sustainability of our planet rests on our willingness to take action. To that end, in this Pact we commit to sixty actions in the areas of sustainable development and financing for development, international peace and security, science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation, youth and future generations, and transforming global governance.
17. We will advance implementation of these actions through relevant, mandated intergovernmental
processes, where they exist. We will review the overall implementation of the Pact at the beginning of the
eighty-third session of the General Assembly through a meeting at the level of Heads of State and Government. We are confident that by then, we will be well on course towards the better and more sustainable future we want for ourselves, our children and all the generations who will come after us.
1. Sustainable development and financing for development
18. In 2015, we resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty, hunger and want and to heal and
secure our planet. We promised we would leave no one behind. We have made some progress, but the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals is in peril. Progress on most of the goals is either moving too slowly or has regressed below the 2015 baseline. Years of sustainable development gains are being reversed. Poverty, hunger and inequality have increased. Human rights are under threat, and we run the risk of leaving millions of people behind. Climate change, biodiversity loss, desertification and sand and dust storms, pollution and other environmental challenges pose immense risks to our natural environment and our prospects for development.
19. We will not accept a future in which dignity and opportunity are denied to half the world’s population or becomes the sole preserve of those with privilege and wealth. Sustainable development and the realization of
human rights and fundamental freedoms are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. We reaffirm that the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is our overarching road map for achieving sustainable
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development in all three of its dimensions, overcoming the multiple, interlinked crises we face and securing a better future for present and future generations. We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. We reaffirm that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is an essential prerequisite to sustainable development. We cannot achieve our shared ambitions for the future without addressing these challenges with urgency and renewed vigour. We are committed to ensuring that the multilateral system can turbocharge our aspirations to deliver for people and planet, and we will place people at the center of all our actions.
Action 1. We will take bold, ambitious, accelerated, just and transformative actions to implement the
2030 Agenda, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and leave no one behind.
20. We reaffirm that the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive, far-reaching and people centered.
We reiterate our steadfast commitment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and revitalize
the global partnership for sustainable development, working closely with all relevant stakeholders. We
recognize that the 2030 Agenda is universal and that all developing countries, including countries in special
situations, in particular African Countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small
island developing States , as well as those with specific challenges, including Middle Income Countries and
countries in conflict and post conflict situations, require assistance to implement the Agenda. We reaffirm the
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, including all its principles. We decide to:
(a) Scale up our efforts towards the full implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the
Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Paris Agreement.
(b) Fully implement the commitments in the Political Declaration agreed at the Sustainable Development
Goals Summit in 2023.
(c) Mobilize and deliver significant and adequate resources and investments from all sources for sustainable
development.
(d) Remove all obstacles to sustainable development and refrain from economic coercion.
Action 2. We will place the eradication of poverty at the centre of our efforts to achieve the 2030
Agenda.
21. Eradicating poverty, in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is an imperative for all
humankind. We decide to:
(a) Take comprehensive and targeted measures to eradicate poverty by addressing the multidimensional
nature of poverty, including through rural development strategies and investments and innovations in the
social sector, especially education and health.
(b) Take concrete actions to prevent people falling back into poverty, including by establishing well-designed,
sustainable and efficient social protection systems for all that are responsive to shocks.
Action 3. We will end hunger, eliminate food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition.
22. We remain deeply concerned that one-third of the world's population remain food insecure, and we will
respond to and tackle the drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition. We decide to:
(a) Support countries and communities affected by food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition through
coordinated action, including through the provision of emergency food supplies, programmes, financing,
support to agricultural production, building national resilience to shocks and by ensuring food and agriculture
supply chains function, and markets and trade channels remain free and open.
(b) Assist countries in debt distress manage volatility in international food markets and work in partnership
with international financial institutions and the United Nations system to support developing countries
affected by food insecurity.
(c) Promote equitable, resilient, inclusive and sustainable agrifood systems so that everyone has access to
safe, affordable, sufficient and nutritious food.
Action 4. We will close the SDG financing gap in developing countries.
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23. We are deeply concerned by the growing SDG financing gap facing developing countries. We must close
this gap to prevent a lasting sustainable development divide, widening inequality within and between
countries and a further erosion of trust in international relations and the multilateral system. We note
ongoing efforts to address the SDG financing gap, including through the Secretary-General’s proposal for an
SDG Stimulus. We decide to:
(a) Provide and mobilize sustainable, affordable, accessible, transparent and predictable development finance
from all sources and the required means of implementation to developing countries.
(b) Continue to advance with urgency towards an SDG Stimulus through the Secretary-General’s proposal at
the United Nations and in other relevant fora.
(c) Scale up and fulfil our respective official development assistance commitments, including the commitment
by most developed countries to reach the goal of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development
assistance (ODA/GNI), and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance
to Least Developed Countries.
(d) Continue discussions on the modernization of measurements of official development assistance, while
adhering to existing commitments.
(e) Ensure that development assistance is focused on, and reaches developing countries, focused in particular
on the poorest and most vulnerable, and take further actions to strengthen its effectiveness.
(f) Create a more enabling environment at the global, regional and national level to increase the mobilization
of domestic resources and enhance the capacities, institutions and systems of developing countries at all
levels to achieve this goal, including through international support, to increase investment in sustainable
development.
(g) Implement effective economic, social and environmental policies and ensure good governance and
transparent institutions to advance sustainable development.
(h) Strengthen ongoing efforts to prevent and combat illicit financial flows, corruption, money laundering, tax
evasion, eliminate safe havens and recover and return assets derived from illicit activities.
(i) Promote inclusive and effective international tax cooperation, which contributes significantly to national
efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, as it enables countries to effectively mobilize their
domestic resources and stress that the current international tax governance structures need improvements.
We are committed to strengthening the inclusiveness and effectiveness of tax cooperation at the United
Nations, while taking into consideration the work of other relevant forums and institutions, and will continue
to engage constructively in the process towards developing a United Nations framework convention on
international tax cooperation.
(j) Explore options for international cooperation on the taxation of high net-worth individuals in the
appropriate fora.
(k) Support developing countries to catalyze increased private sector investment in sustainable development,
including by promoting inclusive and innovative finance mechanisms and partnerships and by creating a more
enabling domestic and international regulatory and investment environment, and through the catalytic use of
public financing.
(l) Scale up support from all sources for investment in increasing productive capacities, inclusive and
sustainable industrialization, infrastructure and structural economic transformation, diversification and
growth in developing countries.
(m) Secure an ambitious outcome at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in
2025 to close the SDG financing gap and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Action 5. We will ensure that the multilateral trading system continues to be an engine for sustainable
development.
24. We are committed to a rules-based, non-discriminatory, open, fair, inclusive, equitable and transparent
multilateral trading system, with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core. We underscore the
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importance of the multilateral trading system contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals. We reiterate that States are strongly urged to refrain from promulgating and applying
unilateral economic measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations
that impede the full achievement of economic and social development, particularly in developing countries.
We decide to:
(a) Promote export-led growth in developing countries through, inter alia, preferential trade access for least
developed countries, as appropriate, and targeted special and differential treatment that responds to the
development needs of individual countries.
(b) Work towards concluding the necessary reform of the WTO to improve all its functions and effectively
address the challenges facing global trade.
(c) Facilitate accession to the WTO, especially for developing countries, and promote trade and investment
liberalization and facilitation.
Action 6. We will invest in people to end poverty and strengthen trust and social cohesion.
25. We express our deep concern at persistent inequalities within and between countries and at the slow pace
of progress towards improving the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere, including people in vulnerable
situations. We must meet the Sustainable Development Goals for all segments of society and leave no one
behind, including through the localization of sustainable development. We decide to:
(a) Secure an ambitious outcome at the World Social Summit entitled the Second World Summit for Social
Development in 2025.
(b) Promote universal health coverage, increase access to quality, inclusive education and lifelong learning,
including in emergencies, and improve opportunities for decent work for all, universal access to social
protection to eradicate poverty and reduce inequalities.
(c) Ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and support developing countries to plan
and implement just, safe, healthy, accessible, resilient and sustainable cities.
(d) Accelerate efforts to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all and
increase substantially the share of renewable energy.
(e) Maximize the positive contribution of migrants to the sustainable development of origin, transit,
destination and host countries and strengthen international partnerships and global cooperation for safe,
orderly and regular migration to comprehensively address the drivers of irregular migration and ensure the
safety, dignity and human rights of all migrants, regardless of their migration status.
(f) Address and promote the prevention of water scarcity and build resilience to drought to achieve a world in
which water is a sustainable resource and ensure the availability and sustainable management of clean and
safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all.
Action 7. We will strengthen our efforts to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive
institutions at all levels and uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms.
26. We reaffirm the need to build peaceful just and inclusive societies that provide equal access to justice and
that are based on respect for human rights, on effective rule of law and good governance at all levels and on
transparent and effective and accountable institutions. We reaffirm that all human rights are universal,
indivisible, interrelated, interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that all human rights must be treated in
a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis. We decide to:
(a) Respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development,
promote the effective rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal justice for all and
develop good governance at all levels and transparent, inclusive, effective and accountable institutions at all
levels.
(b) Promote and protect human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development as interrelated and mutually reinforcing, while recognizing that the 2030 Agenda for
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Sustainable Development contains a pledge to leave no one behind and envisages universal respect and
promotion of human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination.
Action 8. We will achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as crucial
contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets.
27. We recognize that the achievement of full human potential and sustainable development is not possible if
women and girls are denied full human rights and opportunities. Sustained, inclusive and equitable economic
growth and sustainable development can only be realized when all women, adolescent girls and girls have
their full human rights respected, protected and fulfilled. We decide to:
(a) Take bold, ambitious, accelerated, just and transformative actions to ensure the full and equal enjoyment
of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all women and girls.
(b) Urgently remove all legal, social and economic barriers to achieve gender equality and ensure women’s full
and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political,
economic and public life.
(c) Take targeted and accelerated action to eradicate all forms of violence and harassment against all women
and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence.
(d) Significantly increase investments to close the gender gap, including in the care and support economy,
acknowledging the linkage between poverty and gender inequality and the need to strengthen support for
institutions in relation to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
(e) Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and
control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, natural resources, and
appropriate new technology, in accordance with national laws.
(f) Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance
with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing
Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
Action 9. We will strengthen our actions to address climate change.
28. We are deeply concerned at the current slow pace of progress in addressing climate change, the continued
growth in greenhouse gas emissions recognizing the importance of the means of implementation and support
for developing countries and the increasing frequency, intensity and scale of the adverse impacts of climate
change, in particular on developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse
effects of climate change. In pursuit of the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change and of the Paris Agreement, we reaffirm the importance of accelerating action in this critical decade
on the basis of the best available science, reflecting equity and the principle of common but differentiated
responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances and in the context
of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. We underscore that the impact of climate change
will be much lower at the temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with 2 degrees Celsius. We
decide to:
(a) Welcome the decisions adopted at the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the decisions adopted under the “UAE
Consensus” that includes the outcome of the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement, at the fifth session
of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement.
(b) Reaffirm our resolve to set, at COP 29, a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) from a floor of USD 100
billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries.
(c) Come forward in our next nationally determined contributions with ambitious, economy-wide emission
reduction targets, covering all greenhouse gases, sectors and categories and aligned with limiting global
warming to 1.5 °C, as informed by the latest science, in the light of different national circumstances, while
reaffirming the nationally determined nature of nationally determined contributions and in line with article 4
of the Paris Agreement.
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(d) Significantly enhance international cooperation and the international enabling environment to stimulate
ambition in the next round of nationally determined contributions.
(e) Accelerate the development, transfer and deployment of clean and renewable energy technologies,
including to triple renewable energy capacity globally, and double the global average annual rate of energy
efficiency improvements by 2030, as well as accelerate the development and deployment of other zero and
low-emission technologies and transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and
equitable manner, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science.
(f) Recognize that adaptation finance will have to be significantly scaled up beyond the decision to double
adaptation finance, to support the urgent and evolving need to accelerate adaptation and build resilience in
developing countries, while emphasizing that finance, capacity building and technology transfer are critical
enablers of climate action and noting that scaling up the provision and mobilization of new and additional
grant-based, highly concessional finance and non-debt instruments remains essential to supporting
developing countries, particularly as they transition in a just and equitable manner.
(g) Further operationalize and capitalize the new funding arrangements, including the Fund, for responding to
loss and damage.
(h) Protect everyone on earth through universal coverage of multi-hazard early warning systems by 2027,
including through the accelerated implementation of the Early Warnings for All initiative.
Action 10. We will accelerate our efforts to restore, protect, conserve and sustainably use the
environment.
29. We are deeply concerned about rapid environmental degradation, and we recognize the urgent need for a
fundamental shift in our approach in order to achieve a world in which humanity lives in harmony with
nature. We must conserve, restore and sustainably use our planet’s ecosystems and natural resources to
support the health and well-being of present and future generations. We will address the interlinked causes
and adverse impacts of climate change, sea-level rise, biodiversity loss, pollution, water scarcity, floods,
desertification, land degradation, drought, deforestation and sand and dust storms. We decide to:
(a) Achieve a world in which humanity lives in harmony with nature, conserve and sustainably use our
planet’s resources and reverse the trends of environmental degradation.
(b) Take ambitious action to improve the health, productivity, sustainable use and resilience of the ocean and
their ecosystems, and conserve and sustainably use and restore seas and freshwater resources, as well as
forests, mountains, glaciers and drylands and protect, conserve and restore biodiversity, ecosystems and
wildlife.
(c) Promote sustainable consumption and production patterns, including sustainable lifestyles, and circular
economy approaches as a pathway to achieving sustainable consumption and production patterns, and zero
waste initiatives.
(d) Accelerate efforts to address the pollution of air, land and soil, freshwater and the ocean, including the
sound management of chemicals, and work towards the conclusion of an ambitious international legally-
binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, by the end of 2024.
(e) Deliver on our agreed commitments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and implement all
multilateral environmental agreements.
Action 11. We will protect and promote culture and sport as integral components of sustainable
development.
30. We recognize that culture as well as sport offer individuals and communities a strong sense of identity and
fosters social cohesion. We also recognize that sport can contribute to individuals’ and communities’ health
and wellbeing. Culture as well as sport therefore have the potential to be important enablers of sustainable
development. We decide to:
(a) Ensure that culture as well as sport can contribute to more effective, inclusive, equitable and sustainable
development, and integrate culture into economic, social and environmental development policies and
strategies and ensure adequate public investment in the protection and promotion of culture.
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(b) Engage constructively on the return or restitution of cultural property of spiritual, historical and cultural
value to countries of origin, and strongly encourage relevant private entities to similarly engage, as required,
and strengthen international cooperation on this issue, in line with relevant international conventions and
national legislation.
(c) Promote and support intercultural and interreligious dialogue to strengthen social cohesion and
contribute to sustainable development.
Action 12. We will plan for the future and strengthen our collective efforts to turbocharge the full
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by 2030 and beyond.
31. We remain steadfastly focused and committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
We will sustain our efforts to build the future we want by addressing existing, new and emerging challenges to
sustainable development by 2030 and beyond. We decide to:
(a) Significantly advance progress towards the full and timely achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development by 2030, including through strengthening the role of the High-level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development (HLPF) as the main platform for the follow up and review of the sustainable
development agenda.
(b) Invite the HLPF, under the auspices of the General Assembly, to consider in September 2027 how we will
advance sustainable development by 2030 and beyond, as a priority and at the center of our work.
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