Global Goals Week

The week includes events, summits, conferences, forums, workshops, pledges, and other activations in New York, around the world, and online.

It usually runs alongside Climate Week NYC, the annual conference of Goalkeepers (Gates Foundation), Bloomberg Global Business Forum and many other high-level events.

It is also an opportunity to "speak out as one voice, share ideas and transformative solutions in the fight to build back better from global challenges".

[3] World leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 78th session of the General Assembly (UNGA 78) under the theme, “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and the sustainability for all.” The first day of the high-level General Debate was September 19.

[4] Heads of State and Government and ministers explored solutions to the intertwined global challenges to advance peace, security, and sustainable development.

[5] Heads of State and Government also gathered at UN Headquarters in New York on September 18-19 for the 2023 SDG Summit to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the target year of 2030 for achieving the Goals.

The seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly opened on 13 September under the theme, "A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges."

The theme stems from the recognition that the world is at a critical moment in the history of the United Nations due to complex and interconnected crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, humanitarian challenges of unprecedented nature, a tipping point in climate change as well as growing concerns about threats to the global economy.

The goal was to "cultivate ideas, identify solutions, and build partnerships with the power to solve a wide range of complex global problems from inequality to climate change".