World leaders on 23 September 2024 adopted the Pact for the Future, a landmark declaration pledging concrete actions towards a safer, more peaceful, sustainable and inclusive world for tomorrow’s generations.
Key points
- The Pact along with its annexes, the Global Digital Compact and the Declaration on Future Generations, was adopted by consensus.
- Russia and Iran were among seven nations opposed the “Pact for the Future”.
- The Pact’s five broad focus areas include: sustainable development; international peace and security; science and technology; youth and future generations and transforming global governance.
- This has become an urgent pivot, as multilateral financial institutions and even the United Nations itself have come up short seeking solutions to 21st century problems, the pact lays out.
- The pact also promise to reform the Security Council, recognising the urgent need to make it more representative, inclusive, transparent, efficient, effective, democratic and accountable.
- The Prime Minister Narendra Modi also attend the two-day United Nations ‘Summit of the Future’ conference.
