UN adopts groundbreaking PACT for the Future on opening day of the UN Summit for the Future

Posted: 23rd September 2024

UN adopts groundbreaking PACT for the Future on opening day of the UN Summit for the Future
Join our ‘correspondents’ live from New York today for an update

Register for WFM and MEGA Live from the Summit of the FutureDear Peter Gloyns, 

On the opening day of the UN Summit of the Future yesterday, world leaders adopted a ground-breaking Pact for the Future that also includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations (See UN adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance, UN press release, September 22).

Following an unsuccessful effort by Russia and its allies yesterday morning to render the PACT toothless in national jurisdictions, it was adopted without vote, i.e. by consensus.

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. As the Secretary-General has said, “we cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.”

While innovative and ground-breaking, the PACT is not as ambitious as hoped by many like-minded governments and civil society networks who had advanced a range of even stronger proposals for better global governance to ensure peace, environmental protection, human rights, democracy and sustainability for current and future generations. See, for example, the Peoples Pact for the Future.

Join civil society leaders from World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM) and Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance (MEGA) online today for an update on the Summit of the Future, the adoption of the PACT and where-to-from here.
  

WFM and MEGA correspondents at the Summit

• John Vlasto (UK)
  Chair of the Board, World Federalist Movement-Institute of Global Policy (WFM-IGP). Co-founder and Steering Committee Member, Mobilizing an Earth Governance Coalition (MEGA). 
• Caroline Vernaillen (Belgium/Germany)
  Global Manager for Community Building at Democracy International,
• Tad Daley (USA)
  President, Americans for Democratic Action Foundation of Southern California.
• Andreas Bummel (Germany)
  Executive Director, Democracy without Borders.
• Maja Graf (Canada/Netherlands)
  Convenor, Climate Governance Commission. Co-founder and Steering Committee Member of MEGA.

They will be interviewed by Ayleen Roy, Masters Student at London School of Economics. Member, WFM-IGP Working Group on Faith and Values-based perspectives and global governance and Alyn Ware, Program Director, WFM-IGP and Global Coordinator of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.Yours sincerely
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