Big Picture Plenary: The Time is Now

Plenary sessions | Main Stage

Host: UN SDG Action Campaign

The world faces the deepest global health, social and economic crises in a century, coupled with the growing destruction of biodiversity, worsening impacts of the climate crisis, increasing and intersecting inequalities, and threats to fundamental rights. Hard-won development gains are at serious risk of reversal. To have a future, we must make this current moment a turning point for people and our planet. We can pursue the transformation that leads to a better world if we choose to do so, individually and collectively.

To open the discussions at the SDG Global Festival of Action, this Big Picture plenary discussion with explore the following:

What have we learned from the current crisis?

What opportunities are emerging? What is possible today that might have been impossible only months ago?

What is happening now that aligns with the 2030 Agenda? What needs to be aligned?

What is next? Imagining life in a post-pandemic world, is a new social contract possible? What would it look like?

What are the roles of global solidarity, individual action and inclusive multilateralism in finding solutions to our greatest challenges?

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Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Achim Steiner

Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017 for a period

Co-founder and President, Igarapé Institute

Ilona Szabo

Ilona Szabó is a civic entrepreneur, co-founder and president of the Igarapé

Senior Creative Producer, Talk Up Yout

Kristeena Monteith

Kristeena Monteith specializes in making media and managing projects that connect people,

Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy

Marina Sereni

In 2001 she was elected for the first time to Parliament in

Photographer, CANON Ambassador

Tasneem Alsultan

Tasneem Alsultan is an investigative photographer and storyteller. Her work largely focuses on