UN Pact for the Future
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UN Pact for the Future
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Pact for the Future
Preamble
- We gather to address the profound global challenges facing
humanity, including existential risks and avoidable suffering,
and are committed to setting a course towards a future that is
safe, sustainable, and inclusive for all.
- We recognize that global problems are interconnected and
cannot be solved without international cooperation,
multilateralism, and an effective United Nations.
- We reaffirm our commitment to sustainable development,
international law, peace and human rights,
- We resolve to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, solve climate change, prevent biodiversity loss, protect vital ecosystems, financially help poorer communities and developing countries, uphold the UN Charter, and achieve a peaceful and just world.
I
Improving the UN and Global Cooperation
- Positive reforms are needed to make the UN more inclusive,
representative, fair, impartial, and effective towards the
purposes and principles of the UN Charter and help advance human
rights, fair opportunities, a peaceful life and a sustainable
environment for present and future generations.
- Global institutions need to be more representative and
effective in helping achieve a world that is safe, peaceful,
just, equal, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous.
- International cooperation must be strengthened to address
the critical global challenges that threaten humanity and future
generations.
UN Values and Goals
- Global Peace and
Security
- International Cooperation
- Human Rights and Freedoms
- Social
Equality and Inclusive Opportunities
- Humanitarian
and Healthcare Assistance
- Education
and Employment Opportunities
- Sustainable
Economic Development
- Responsible
Industries and Technologies
- Protecting Ecosystems and
Climate
- Protecting Rights of Future Generations
Improving UN Effectiveness
- Strengthen the effectiveness and coordination of the
General Assembly, Human Rights Council, Economic and Social
Council, World Food Programme, UN Children's Fund, UN Environment
Programme, and the Peacebuilding Commission.
- Strengthen collaboration between the UN System of Funds,
Programmes and Specialized Agencies with global financial
institutions, multinational corporations, governments, civil
society organizations and alliances.
- Strengthen financing for the UN System and its
international activities, for the good of all nations, for the
shared good of developing a sustainable long-term ecological
world, creating international peace and disarmament, and helping
those in need.
- Strengthen financing for the UN development system and its
country and local coordinators, for the good of helping the most
needy and advancing communities in sustainable development.
- Strengthen financing for the Human Rights Council and human rights mechanisms working cooperatively with civil society global civil rights groups.
- Ensure that all aspects of the UN System and its affiliated global institutions are inclusive, representative, transparent, fair and effective in their decision-making processes, policies and activities, in addressing current global problems and being prepared for the future.
- Ensure the selection process for the Secretary-General and
all UN executive heads is guided by merit, transparency,
inclusiveness, and regional rotation.
- Strengthen the UN Environment Assembly to accelerate
implementation and compliance with multilateral environmental
agreements.
- Improve UN engagement and partnerships with national,
regional and local governing representatives and civil society
organizations, and strengthen global and stakeholder
participation in UN processes.
- Advance civil society initiatives, such as: a World
Citizens’ Initiative, a UN Parliamentary Assembly, a
permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly and a UN Civil Society
Envoy.
- Strengthen international governance of outer space and with private owned businesses to address the issues of space traffic and debris, and to ensure its peaceful, safe, and equitable use.
- Strengthen UN capacities and emergency platforms for
responding effectively to global emergencies and shocks.
Global Commitments for a Better Future
- We will protect the needs of
present and future generations, through the actions agreed in
this Pact for the Future.
- We will strengthen international cooperation and multilateral agreements, to solve the major environmental, ecological, climate, and human problems of our present world.
- We will prioritize global environmental protection and sustainable economic development.
- We will seize the
opportunity to build a sustainable future, through advances in
science, technology and innovation.
- We will eradicate extreme
poverty and build a world that is sustainable, peaceful, safe,
inclusive, just, and resilient.
- We will cooperatively work
to solve the global crises of climate change and ecological
destruction, and we will support developing countries to adapt to
the adverse impacts of climate change.
- We reaffirm the UN Charter
commitment to protecting future generations from the scourge of
war, and we will use all instruments of diplomacy to resolve
disputes peacefully and apply international law to end impunity.
- We reaffirm the fundamental protections and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and we promote diversity, universal rights and equality for all people.
- We uphold gender equality and woman's rightful participation in governing decisions, and we pledge to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls.
- We reaffirm our agreement to sustainable development, peace and security, human rights, and protecting the natural environment for all generations.
II
International Peace and Security
- The global security landscape is worsening with continuing wars, nuclear risks, and escalations of military spending.
- The UN can solve these problems through peace diplomacy, organized disarmament, and multilateral cooperative agreements.
Peace and Security Agreements
- Agree to the need for international peace and an end to
military conflicts.
- Agree to International Laws, the UN Charter, and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Agree to not use (or threaten) military force against any
state's territorial integrity or political independence.
- Agree to solve all international disputes and conflicts by
peaceful diplomatic negotiations, supported by UN mediation.
- Address all threats to international peace and security,
especially the risk of using nuclear weapons.
Peace and Security Institutions
- Support decisions of the International Court of Justice.
- Enhance the General Assembly's contribution to global
peace and security, and improve dialogue between the General
Assembly and the Security Council.
- Increase the authority of Human Rights Declarations upon
international conflicts, peace and security. .
- Reform the Security
Council to be more effective at peacefully resolving
international military conflicts and maintaining international
peace and human security.
Security Council Reforms
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Reaffirm the Security Council's major purposes and
mandates, as stated in the UN Charter.
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Improve the Security Council's relationship,
dialogue, and cooperation with the General Assembly, the
Peacebuilding Commission, and the Economic and Social Council.
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Ensure the Security Council's accountability by
improving General Assembly access to the deliberations and
planned actions of the Security Council and its subsidiary
organs.
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Support efforts of the Security Council to review
and improve its working methods, including its penholding and
co-penholding arrangements.
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Strengthen the Security Council's commitment and
effectiveness to peacefully resolve international disputes in
order to maintain global peace and security, and especially to
prevent genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes.
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Reform the Security Council membership rules
to make it more globally representative, increasing a rotational
representation from the developing countries of Africa, Asia,
Latin America, AsiaPacific and Caribbean islands; while also
ensuring the Council's efficiency and effectiveness.
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Reform the Security Council rules so that a
permanent member cannot veto a resolution to prevent or halt
genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes.
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Reform the Security Council rules so that if a
permanent member is involved in a particular war or dispute, it
cannot veto a resolution to condemn or impose restrictions on its
own activities in that war or dispute.
Peace Operations
- Employ UN Peace
Operations to current and potential conflict situations,
and coordinate the 4 branches of:
Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding, and Post-conflict
Recovery operations.
- Create a UN Peace Operations toolbox for peace mediation,
conflict-prevention, and peacebuilding.
- Support African-led peace operations and all regional and
local peace operations.
- Employ Peacemaking Teams
to help resolve conflicts in progress, through diplomacy
mediation and negotiated agreements, and to coordinate with other
peacemaking actors, envoys and local peace organizations.
- Develop Peace Mediation Teams to mediate
conflict-resolution negotiations and help end all wars.
- Strengthen all diplomatic peacemaking mechanisms
to prevent and resolve conflicts, and collaborate with civil
society peace organisations.
- Strengthen conflict-prevention measures to prevent
tensions and disputes from escalating into violence or armed
conflict, by applying early-warning information gathering and
analysis of the factors underlying a potential armed conflict.
- Promote preventive diplomacy and peaceful settlement of
disputes, and collaborate with regional and local organizations.
- Employ Peacekeeping Operations, including a
UN Peacekeeping Force if authorized by the Security Council, to
enforce a ceasefire or
peace agreement, and to protect
human rights and civilians, especially women and children.
- Employ Peacebuilding Teams for overall
conflict management and conflict prevention, aiming to reduce
conflict tensions, avoid armed conflict, and help build
sustainable peace and human security.
- Develop Peacebuilding Teams to promote peaceful
international, inter-tribal, inter-racial, and inter-religious
relations in collaboration with local and global peace
organizations.
- Promote dialogue, understanding, and positive
relations between all nations, cultures, and religions, and
support peacebuilding through outreach programmes and social
media.
- Enhance the role of the Peacebuilding Commission
in all key discussions and activities concerning global peace
and security.
- Establish Post-conflict Recovery Operations
to assist nations and communities harmfully impacted by war and
violence, including the expansion of Restorative Justice
programmes in coordination with local peace and justice
organizations.
Women & Youth in Peace Processes
- Include women and youth in all mechanisms, decisions and
activities involving peace and security, especially women and
youth residing in areas of armed conflict.
- Increase efforts to achieve gender equality in peace and
security activities.
- Recognize the role of women as agents of peace, ensuring
their full and meaningful participation in decision-making,
mediation, and peace processes.
- Recognize the important role of youth in promoting
international peace and security, and ensure youth participation
in all levels of peacemaking and peacebuilding, including youth
opportunities in UN peace deliberations and operations.
Solving Humanitarian Problems
- Increase humanitarian access and assistance to provide
food, water and healthcare in conflict areas and in all
emergencies. .
- Protect humanitarian personnel, and ensure fair justice
and accountability for all harms done to people in conflict
areas.
- Solve the problems of forced displacement and refugees.
Multilateral Disarmament
- Uphold current disarmament obligations, while accelerating
larger disarmament agreements and reductions in arms trade.
- Strive for a world free of nuclear weapons, reaffirming
the goal of total nuclear disarmament and preventing nuclear war.
- Strengthen the disarmament and non-proliferation
architecture, ensuring compliance with international norms and
preventing their erosion.
- Pursue a world free from chemical and biological weapons,
and ensure accountability for any use or leaks.
- Prevent the illicit trade of small to large destructive
weapons and other military equipment by non-state actors.
Terrorism and Organized Crime
- Study and address the root causes of terrorism,
and counter terrorism by promoting nonviolent principles
throughout all aspects of social and cultural organisations.
- Strengthen international cooperation and strategies to
combat transnational organized crime and illicit financial flows.
- Prevent the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by
non-state actors, and combat illicit trade in small arms, light
weapons, and gaps in ammunition management.
Risks of Advancing Military Technologies
- Address the potential abuses and global dangers
of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence in military
systems and in systems of social repression.
- Address the risks from rapid technological advances in
mass destructive militaries and autonomous weapons, and prevent
an arms race in outer space.
- Address the risks from misuses of digital
information-communications technologies and artificial
intelligence.
- Address the potential abuses and global dangers of
advanced technologies and artificial intelligence in military
systems and in systems of social repression.
Militaries and the Global Environment
- Address challenges to peace and security posed by climate
change and environmental impacts, ensuring UN bodies consider
these implications in peace operations.
- Study the impacts of climate and environmental adversity
on international peace and security, and recognize the impacts of
military operations and wars on climate and the environment.
- Ensure that military spending does not hinder investment
in sustainable development and peace, and request analysis of
military expenditure's impact on the SDGs.
III
Reforming Financial Institutions
- International Financial Institutions must be guided by the
principles of long-term environmental sustainability, human
rights, social freedoms, fair justice, and prosperity for all.
- International Financial Institutions need to make reforms,
in order to effectively provide the needed financing for
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for a more inclusive,
just, and sustainable world.
Priorities for International Financial
Institutions
- Accelerate
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, the 2030
Agenda, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the 2023 SDG Political
Declaration, the Rio Declaration and the Paris Agreement,
addressing hunger, poverty, human rights, climate change,
pollution, and degrading ecosystems.
- Prioritize financial assistance and lending to developing
countries and to SDG projects and businesses that benefit the
global environment, climate, and communities in need.
- Ensure that global development aligns with environmental
sustainability, human rights and social equality, especially
promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.
- Support international efforts to build peaceful, just and
inclusive societies, with human rights, fundamental freedoms, and
equal justice for all.
- Promote sustainable production, fair international trade,
and responsible consumption.
Environmental and Climate Priorities
- Protect and conserve natural ecosystems and the
physical environment, and ensure that natural resources are used
sustainably.
- Invest in clean industries, clean energy, climate
solutions, circular economies, green businesses, and
technologies, to protect the natural environment and help solve
the climate problem.
- Prioritize financial assistance to climate-vulnerable
communities, to mitigate climate change impacts and improve their
climate resilience and risk management.
- Increase climate and ecology financing from Multilateral
Development Banks and from corporate investors, for the most
vulnerable developing countries.
- Promote circular economies, to use fewer natural resources
and produce less waste and emissions.
Financial Assistance for Developing Countries
- Ensure that global financial institutions can assist
countries in financial crises or instability.
- Provide humanitarian assistance to those in urgent need.
- Increase financial assistance and concessional loans from
multilateral development banks for developing countries, to
increase their sustainable development and reduce their poverty.
- Reduce the SDG financing gap in underdeveloped countries,
to eliminate extreme poverty and food/water insecurity.
- Improve food supply chains and access to food, and manage
market volatility.
- Increase financing for sustainable local agriculture.
Reforms in the Global Financial System
- Improve the international financial system to be
more inclusive and representative of developing countries.
- Increase representation from developing countries on IMF
and World Bank Boards.
- Improve equitable fairness in the debt architecture of the
IMF, World Bank, and other international financial institutions.
- Improve financial support, credit-access, and
debt-transparency for countries with high and unsustainable debt
burdens.
- Engage credit-rating agencies to improve developing
countries' access to concessional finance and sustainable credit.
- Strengthen the global financial safety net by providing
IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to developing countries.
Reforms in Financial Policies and Priorities
- Develop indicators to measure economic development and
progress, not just by GDP but by the benefits and improvements to
people, society, communities, the environment, ecosystems, and
climate.
- Ensure that underdeveloped countries and communities have
equitable access to needed capital and resources for eliminating
food/water insecurity, reducing poverty, developing sustainable
economies, and advancing economic prosperity.
- Prioritize financial assistance and lending to developing
countries and to SDG projects and businesses that benefit the
global environment, climate, and communities in need.
- Create economic policies to financially incentivize
businesses and projects that produce ecological and social
benefits, and disincentivize businesses and projects that produce
ecological or social harm.
- Invest in sustainable development projects and businesses,
rather than non-sustainable business endeavors for short-term
profits.
- Divest from ecological and community-harmful businesses
and projects, then reinvest this capital into ecological and
community-benefiting businesses and projects.
- Divest from carbon-emitting and ecological-destructive
businesses and projects, and divest from the military industries
that harm ecologies, air, water, land, and climate.
IV
Science, Technology and Digital Cooperation
- Science, technology, and innovation hold great potential for advancing UN goals and benefiting the whole world.
- International cooperation and partnerships are essential to bridge the technological and digital divide between developed and developing nations.
- We need to ensure that digital technologies, including AI, contribute to an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable future, rather than worsen economic inequalities.
Apply Science & Technology to benefit
people and planet
- Promote a responsible, safe, sustainable and inclusive
technological future.
- Apply science and emerging technologies, including digital
technologies and artificial intelligence, for social and
environmental benefits and for achieving the sustainable
development goals.
- Support developing countries in building their science,
technology, and innovation capacities.
- Foster creative innovation and competition in the
technology industry.
- Uphold intellectual property rights to support innovation
and facilitate technology transfer to developing countries.
- Foster international
collaboration in scientific research and technological innovation
to address global challenges and inform policy-making.
- Develop multi-stakeholder
cooperation among governments, international businesses and
financial institutions, scientific and technology communities,
civil society advocacy and non-profit organizations to advance a
responsible, inclusive, ethical, safe and secure digital
future for the benefit of all people and our planet.
Ensuring Ethical Uses of Technologies &
Digital Capacities
- Adopt a forward-looking approach capable of identifying,
anticipating, assessing, and monitoring both the potential
benefits and risks of emerging technologies and digital
applications.
- Adopt a responsible, accountable, transparent and
human-centric approach to the development and use of emerging
technologies and digital applications, and maintain some level of
cooperative oversight and review.
- Agree to ethical standards and baseline regulations for impactful technologies, especially ensuring human rights
and ecological protections.
- Ensure responsible and ethical uses of science and new
technologies, in alignment with global goals.
- Ensure that uses of technology do not harm people or
communities, or cause social inequalities or gender injustice.
- Ensure that uses of technology do not harm the
environment, ecosystems or climate.
- Solve the sustainability problems of technological and
digital infrastructure by reducing the use of non-renewable
resources, along with reducing carbon emissions and e-waste in
the processes of production, delivery and consumption.
- Strengthen cybersecurity to protect global digital
infrastructures and communication systems.
- Ensure that freedom of speech and social outreach, through digital communication, is not suppressed or censored unless particular instances are transparently proven to be inciting violence.
- Ensure that digital technologies and artificial intelligence are not used for public surveillance in violation of personal and social privacy and freedoms.
Equitable Access to Science and Technology
Problem: Many people and communities lack access to beneficial digital technologies and services, resulting in further global inequalities and digital divides.
Problem: Participation in and benefits from the emerging digital economy is currently concentrated in developed countries and in wealthier economic groups.
Reality: Equitable inclusion in the digital economy will require existing concentrations of technological capacity and market power to generously share some of their capacities to less-wealthy communities and economies.
- Bridge the technology and innovation gap between developed
and developing countries.
- Close digital divides within and between countries,
advancing an equitable digital economy that is accessible to all.
- Increase access to scientific knowledge, beneficial
technologies and technological skills in developing countries.
- Increase affordable technologies and services for social
and environmental benefits.
- Agree that access to beneficial technologies is a human
right.
- Address gender discrimination in access to digital
technologies and close the gender digital divide, to empower
women and girls education, dialogue and participation in digital
spaces.
- Ensure that digital technologies benefit vulnerable
populations, including empowering persons with disabilities
through accessible technology.
- Improve access to new scientific knowledge and beneficial
technologies for indigenous communities, complementing their
traditional practices.
V
Youth and Future Generations
- Recognize that our
present actions will significantly impact children, youth, and
future generations.
- Recognize the needs and
rights of future generations.
- Recognize young people as
positive contributors for shaping
policies involving their future.
- Agree to a Declaration for
Future Generations.
Rights of Future Generations
- Recognize the Rights of Future Generations and
Intergenerational Justice as fundamental human rights.
- Recognize the rights of young people and future
generations to inherit a sustainable healthy environment and a
peaceful world with positive life opportunities.
- Address the impacts of climate change and environmental
challenges on young people’s rights.
- Ensure that UN and international policies intelligently
consider the long-term impacts on future generations.
- Ensure that all levels of government decision-making
address the needs and interests of future generations alongside
current generations, promoting intergenerational equity.
- Agree that current governing
decisions should lead towards a sustainable ecological, safe and
enjoyable world for future generations.
Rights and Needs of Young People
- Protect the human rights of
all young people and children, protecting them from violence,
harm, discrimination, child labor and child trafficking.
- Invest in the human
development and education of children and youth.
- Invest in
early-childhood and youth-related social services, and improve
equitable access to healthcare, education and skills development.
- Prioritize the rights and
protections of young women and girls, and ensure their equitable
educational and economic opportunities.
Economic Needs for Youth
- Recognize the need for improving the economic
opportunities for youth and the next generations.
- Create future-sustainable jobs and decent livelihoods
for youth, especially prioritizing youth now in poverty.
- Invest
in youth skills-development for the evolving future job
market.
- Enhance economic
opportunities for young persons with disabilities through
assistive technologies.
Opportunities for Youth Participation
- Recognize young people as the rightful
representatives of future generations, who ought to be involved
in decision making.
- Include
youth representatives as positive contributors in shaping
government policies for environmental protections and sustainable
development.
- Increase youth representation and participation
across the UN System, at
all levels of governance, in all global discussions and in all
international policy decisions that impact future generations.
- Include youth delegates
in representative delegations and assemblies.
- Increase
participation of youth from developing countries in UN
meetings and global activities.
- Strengthen
intergenerational dialogue
and collaboration between newer and older generations.
- Encourage
and support youth-led initiatives and youth-led organizations
for achieving a sustainable and prosperous future.
Youth Participation in the UN System
- Establish a Futures
Council to support the implementation of this Declaration
and to annually review and publicize its progress.
- Establish a Youth Council to represent the needs and
interests of future generations.
- Establish a Global Youth Forum for enhancing youth
engagement and dialogue in all countries and within the UN
System.
- Establish a Youth Envoy for
Future Generations:
- to represent and give voice
to the existential needs and the just civil and economic rights
of future generations;
- to participate in all kinds of UN discussions
relevant to future generations;
- to lead organized efforts to
build international youth discussions about the needs of future
generations.
- The Envoy and Council can be
chosen by a global democratic process in which any person and in
any place of the world, without discrimination, has an
opportunity to be a candidate for this selection, in a
global-wide process of youth dialogue groups and regional
conferences on the needs of the future. At these conferences the
futures representatives will be decided.
- The Envoy and Council for
Future Generations will have advisory and advocacy functions,
such as:
- Representing and advocating for the needs and interests
of future generations across the UN system and in
intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder processes.
- Ensuring long-term thinking and foresight, with research
and analysis, regarding of the future risks, challenges and
opportunities of UN and intergovernmental proposals and
policies.
- Raising awareness of and advising on the scientifically
predicted future impacts of proposals, policies and programmes
under consideration.
- Facilitating coordination and collaboration with the
Futures Lab network and the science advisory mechanism.
- Sharing best practices among peer institutions,
committees and networks for future generations.
- Supporting Member States by serving as a focal point for
efforts to embed future generations and long-term thinking in
global, national and subnational policymaking processes and
channeling capacity-building resources to that end.
UN Declaration for the Future
Preamble
- We reaffirm our commitment to future generations in the
principles of the UN Charter, Human Rights, and Sustainable
Development Goals.
- We recognize the impact of current choices and actions on
future generations, necessitating responsible and future-thinking
actions.
- We emphasize the need for intergenerational dialogue in
decision-making processes that affect the future.
Rights of Future Generations
- Recognize the Rights of Future Generations and
Intergenerational Justice as fundamental human rights.
- Recognize the rights of young people and future
generations to inherit a sustainable healthy environment and a
peaceful world with positive life opportunities.
- Address the impacts of climate change and environmental
challenges on young people’s rights.
- Ensure that UN and international policies intelligently
consider the long-term impacts on future generations.
- Ensure that all levels of government decision-making
address the needs and interests of future generations alongside
current generations, promoting intergenerational equity.
- Agree that current governing
decisions should lead towards a sustainable ecological, safe and
enjoyable world for future generations.
Goals for the Future
- Ensure a healthy and sustainable environment for future
generations.
- Prevent environmental and ecological degradation, and
support climate-change solutions and resilience.
- Build international peace and security for all
generations.
- Create international laws that protect all people and all
generations.
- Promote sustainable economic development for all people
and all communities.
- Eliminate extreme poverty and reduce economic
inequalities.
- Protect equal human rights and civil freedoms for all
people.
- Ensure opportunities for inclusive participation by all
people and cultures in decision-making processes, without any
social discrimination.
- Apply science and innovative technologies to build a
prosperous future for all generations.
- Build inclusive, transparent and effective global
institutions for future generations.
Commitments
- Reverse the degradation of
ecosystems to ensure a healthy and sustainable environment for
current and future generations.
- Implement effective
environmental and climate solutions, along with measures to
reduce disaster-risk and build resilience.
- Promote global peace,
nonviolence, and human rights.
- Invest in sustainable and
inclusive economic development.
- Ensure food and water
security, reduce poverty and inequalities, and address the
specific needs of vulnerable or struggling populations.
- Address the interlinkages
between issues of development, population and migration across
all regions.
- Promote gender equality,
eliminate gender discrimination, eliminate violence and abuse
against women, and increase women's leadership in societies.
- Protect cultural diversity
and heritage, especially protecting the cultures, rights and
properties of Indigenous Peoples, and foster intercultural and
interreligious dialogue.
- Promote a better future for all generations by increasing
the equitable access to:
- quality healthcare, therapeutics, medicines, mental
health and counseling services.
- education, digital learning, vocational training, sports
and arts.
- beneficial technologies for sustainable economic
advancement.
Needed Actions
- Safeguard the needs and
interests of future generations.
- Encourage long-term
future-oriented thinking and planning throughout the United
Nations and all levels of governance.
- Apply science-based
predictions, regarding the future impacts of current policies and
planning.
- Strengthen disaster
risk-management and resilience, with a priority to protect the
most vulnerable populations.
- Promote intergenerational
dialogue and decision-making, share best practices, and develop
innovative, long-term, forward-thinking policies.
- Evaluate economic
development & progress by its social and ecological benefits,
rather than by a limited measurement of GDP.
- Ensure inclusive access to
education, vocational and life skills, while fostering critical
thinking and creative innovation.
- Enhance dialogue and
cooperation with all stakeholders, including civil society,
academia, the scientific and technological community, and the
private sector of business and investment.
- Establish
a Special Envoy for Future Generations and a Future Advocating
Council, to support the implementation of this Declaration and to
annually review and publicize its progress.
Economics for a Sustainable Future
- Make government policies to
economically incentivize businesses and projects that benefit the
ecological and social future.
- Divest from harmful
industries, then Reinvest this capital into a Better Future with
social and ecological benefiting industries.
- Divest from carbon-emitting
and ecological-destructive corporations, enterprises, and
projects.
- Divest from the military-war
industries which perpetuate wars and violence, and harm
ecologies, air, water, land, and climate.