Upcoming Report this United Nations Charter Day, June 26, 2025!
With multilateral institutions facing an extreme liquidity crisis and the international rules-based order under attack, states and civil society partners committed to collective security, sustainable development, human rights, and multilateral diplomacy must step up to defend and champion a stronger, reformed, and more capable global governance system. An enormous financing gap and eroding political support for the Paris Agreement further threaten progress on tackling the world’s most daunting challenge: climate change. Against a backdrop of divisive politics and mistrust among major powers, world leaders convened the Summit of the Future last September in New York to both renew existing international commitments and reimagine how aging international institutions can better cope with contemporary risks and opportunities. The Global Governance Innovation Report 2025 (GGIR’25) offers tools for assessing and boosting implementation of the summit’s chief outcomes—the Pact for the Future and its Global Digital Compact and Declaration on Future Generations—and considers ways to understand and overcome bottlenecks to positive change on the road to the Pact’s official high-level review in September 2028. It further analyzes and offers outside-the-box policy and institutional reform proposals for grappling with the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—an urgent, yet downplayed concern at the summit. GGIR’25 finds a slow yet visible headway to date in realizing key goals of the Pact. Further success hinges on skillful multilateral diplomacy, sustained leadership across the UN system, active civil society engagement, and a robust, closely monitored follow-up effort to support the goals and commitments adopted at the summit.
