The United Nations Summit of the Future (SOTF), proposed for September 2024 in New York, is a critical milestone in the reform process initiated by UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Our Common Agenda report. It is intended to “advance ideas for governance arrangements in the areas of international concern mentioned in this report, and potentially others where arrangements are nascent or require updating.”
This gathering will take place a year after the SDG Summit and the Ministerial Meeting on a Summit of the Future, scheduled for September 2023 and likely to define the scope and ambition of the SOTF. In order to ensure that diverse civil society perspectives are engaged in the preparatory process of the 2024 Summit of the Future and preceding 2023 SOTF Ministerial Forum to build the UN we need, a civil society-led Global Futures Forum (GFF) is proposed for Spring 2023 March 20 – 22 in New York.