Hosts
World Economic Forum
Watch On
https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-summit-2021
Languages
English
Channels
Climate & Environment
Education
Sustainable Development
UNGA Guide
For over a year, countries have struggled to address a pandemic that respects no borders, destroys lives and livelihoods, and deepens pre-existing global challenges like inequality, climate change and education. With less than a decade left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the fully virtual Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, hosted alongside the United Nations General Assembly, will bring together global leaders from diverse sectors, disciplines and geographies. Ensuring the world exits the pandemic stronger than it entered it will only be possible if leaders work together across sectors and borders to share and deploy know-how, innovation and promising approaches and accelerate the recovery.
Context
In 2020, for the first time, the world retreated in its progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As countries struggled to address the COVID-19 pandemic, over 100 million people were pushed back into poverty, the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs were lost and 101 million youth fell below a minimum reading level. With less than a decade to meet the SDGs, the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, hosted alongside the United Nations General Assembly, will bring together leaders for collective action to shape a new trajectory of accelerated progress.
Objective
Leveraging the most promising approaches and methods to advance a sustainable, equitable and inclusive recovery, leaders will work together across sectors, geographies and disciplines to share and deploy know-how and innovation to exit the pandemic stronger than we entered it. Leaders and experts across sectors will:
- Share new technologies, markets and innovations that offer tangible solutions to global challenges
- Create innovative policy recommendations, action frameworks and methodologies to advance global cooperation
- Advance partnerships, alliances and consortia that can rapidly accelerate progress on pressing and emerging issues
Hosts
World Economic Forum