Sustainability Week: UN General Assembly Inaugural Initiative | April 15-19

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Published Jun 22, 2024

The President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Dennis Francis, explains why we are having the first-ever Sustainability Week from 15-19 April.

The Week will be the first High-level event of its kind, focusing on five key elements: Sustainable Energy, Transportation, Tourism, Infrastructure, and Debt Sustainability.

Sustainability is now more crucial than ever for critical sectors of the economy to meaningfully contribute to a prosperous future for present and future generations.

Sustainability also means ensuring that the benefits of progress are shared equitably, leaving no one behind. The debt crisis—a development crisis—has further exacerbated socio-economic disparities worldwide. Therefore, addressing debt sustainability as an avenue to improve socio-economic equality should be central to the focus on building a sustainable future. Sustainable transportation, infrastructure, tourism, energy, and debt sustainability are all critical avenues to attaining such a future.

#ChooseSustainability

As part of Sustainability Week, the PGA will call on Member States, civil society, UN agencies, and the public to ‘Choose Sustainability.’ This will include pledges to adopt sustainable habits and actions, individually or as an organization.

The core element of the campaign will focus on Permanent Missions to the UN, civil society, UN agencies, and the public and will be primarily driven by social media posts.