Background 

This statement aims to serve as a catalytic and unifying tool, in collaboration with existing efforts, to make the Summit of the Future the transformational global moment that the world demands. We, the School of International Futures and Foundations for Tomorrow, as two non-profit conveners within the global foresight and future generations community, seek to mobilise awareness and input from leading practitioners in service of this goal. We will review progress in a year’s time, at the 2024 Dubai Futures Forum.

Commitments to this pledge are completed within the personal capacity of individuals.

The Pledge:

As we mobilise over the coming months around the opportunity of the Summit, a Pledge will unite this community and signal our intent:

We commit to mobilising our efforts in a unified and collaborative joint strategy for an ambitious Summit of the Future in 2024, as a catalysing moment for building local, national and global governance for the future we need. 

The Summit of the Future provides a critical moment for reclaiming realistic optimism towards our common futures and committing to building the anticipatory governance this century demands. 

We advocate for an intergovernmental agreement that includes:

• An ambitious Declaration for the rights of Future Generations, 

• The appointment of a strategically positioned and well-resourced UN Special Envoy for Future Generations, 

• Substantive commitments to build futures-oriented governance,

• Obligations to institutionalise the principle of intergenerational fairness.

And we will do so by:

• Collaborating across disciplines and in alignment with the 2030 Agenda,

• Committing to unwavering solidarity between current and future generations, while placing global majority countries at the heart of the debate, 

• Mobilising progress across the local, national and global levels,

• Showcasing existing and emerging initiatives across UN member states to foster knowledge sharing and increased ambition.