Streets round UN HQ in Midtown Manhattan will likely be cordoned off, roadblocks erected, and safety heightened and tightened, as world leaders collect to take the heartbeat of the planet throughout every week of high-level events and are available collectively to sort out world challenges.
The 78th session of UNGA begins on 6 September and will likely be adopted by a collection of key conferences and summits on 18 September, not forgetting after all the Common Debate the place every Member State enjoys a world platform to deal with problems with worldwide significance.
Right here’s what to look out for at UNGA 78:
1. Taking the world’s pulse
![Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Ambassador Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago, President-elect of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Ambassador Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago, President-elect of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.](https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Libraries/Production%20Library/22-08-2023-UN-Photo-Dennis-Francis.jpg/image770x420cropped.jpg)
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UNGA 78 President Dennis Francis, from Trinidad and Tobago, will gavel open on 19 September the annual General Debate, the place world leaders will talk about rushing up progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underneath the theme Rebuilding belief and reigniting world solidarity.
All UN Member States and observers have the best to ship a speech within the storied Common Meeting Corridor and thru 25 September, their representatives will current and discover options to myriad intertwined world challenges to advance peace, safety, and sustainable improvement.
A custom established in 1955 at UNGA 10 carries on as we speak, with Brazil taking the rostrum first, adopted by the USA, as host nation of UN Headquarters, and the whole UN membership.
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2. Sustainable Improvement Objectives – The SDG Summit
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Because the centrepiece of UNGA 78’s high-level week, the SDG Summit would be the central platform for Heads of State and Authorities to offer political management on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the wide-reaching world motion plan targeted on attaining the 17 SDGs.
Kicking off the high-level week, from 18 to 19 September, the SDG Summit goals to mark the beginning of a brand new period of progress in direction of the objectives, which has slowed, culminating with the adoption of a forward-looking political declaration.
The 2030 Agenda is a promise, not a assure. On the midway mark (the agenda was launched in 2015), that promise is in deep peril. Improvement progress is dealing with the mixed impacts of local weather disasters, battle, financial downturn, and lingering results of COVID-19.
“The SDG Summit in September should be a second of unity to offer a renewed impetus and accelerated actions for reaching the SDGs,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres has mentioned.
The 2-day occasion will function a rallying cry to recharge momentum. It additionally goals to offer high-level political steering, determine progress and rising challenges, and mobilise additional actions in direction of the 2030 end line.
Study extra in regards to the SDG Summit here.
3. Local weather justice, the movers and doers
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On 20 September world leaders will likely be seeking to rework phrases into motion on the Local weather Ambition Summit. A political milestone for strolling the speak to sort out the ever-worsening local weather disaster, the occasion will deal with three acceleration tracks: ambition, credibility, and implementation.
The large challenge: How greatest to maneuver the world from emissions-producing fossil fuels to inexperienced, clear energy.
The UN Secretary-Common’s “to do” lists cite concrete actions wanted from authorities, enterprise, and finance leaders, from his Climate Action Acceleration Agenda to a guide to 5 essential actions the world should take to hurry the shift to renewable power.
“Now should be the time for ambition and motion,” the UN chief has mentioned. “I stay up for welcoming first movers and doers at my Local weather Ambition Summit. The world is watching, and the planet can’t wait.”
Study extra in regards to the Local weather Ambition Summit here.
4. Shaping a brighter post-pandemic world
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World leaders will contemplate the very best highway forward, from bracing for future pandemics to constructing sustainable economies, with the overarching objective of bettering the well being of individuals and the planet.
Safer world: The UNGA President and the World Well being Group (WHO) will convene a gathering on pandemic preparedness for Heads of State and Authorities on 20. Leaders are anticipated to undertake a declaration that goals to mobilise political will at nationwide, regional, and worldwide ranges. Study extra here.
Well being for all: A gathering on common well being care on 21 September will contemplate classes discovered from COVID-19 alongside evidence-based suggestions to speed up progress in direction of well being look after all by 2030. Study extra here.
Strolling the speak: Additionally on 20 September, a high-level dialogue on financing for improvement goals to offer political management and steering on the implementation of the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a UN framework for mobilising sources to attain the SDGs. It additionally expects to determine progress and rising challenges in addition to methods to set off additional successes. Study extra here.
Tackling TB epidemic: A high-level assembly on the struggle towards tuberculosis will happen on 21 September with the important thing goal of implementing a evaluation of progress within the context of the achievement of targets set within the 2018 political declaration, and within the SDGs. Study extra here.
5. Gearing up for Summit of the Future
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A ministerial assembly on 21 September will see delegates laying the groundwork for the September 2024 Summit of the Future.
The UN Secretary-Common desires this occasion to forge a brand new world consensus on readying the world for a future rife with dangers but in addition alternatives.
Ministers will talk about how the multilateral system can tackle rising world dangers and challenges and current concrete, formidable proposals to strengthen and rework the worldwide system.
An action-oriented “pact for the longer term” is predicted to be agreed by Member States.
Study extra in regards to the preparatory assembly here.