The Future of our World and the Role of the Youth in 2030 – An Agenda

The future of humanity and of our planet lies in our hands. It lies also in the hands of today’s younger generation who will pass the torch to future generations.

Years ago, an earlier generation of world leaders came together to create the United Nations. From the ashes of war and division they fashioned this organization and the values of peace, dialogue and international cooperation which underpin it. The supreme embodiment of those values is the Charter of the United Nations.

We can be the first generation to succeed in ending poverty; just as we may be the last to have a chance of saving the planet. The world will be a better place in 2030 if we are successful. Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world.

We have a responsibility to ending poverty and hunger in all their forms and dimensions and to ensure that the human race can fulfil their potential in dignity, equality and in a healthy environment as well as protecting the planet from degradation. This can only be done through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations.

Ancilliary to this is fostering peace, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development. Mobilizing the means required to implement an Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity with a focused in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people.

The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realized. If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the better.

Sustainable Development Goals and targets are integrated and indivisible, global in nature and universally applicable, taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.

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