Working for the Wellbeing of Current and Future Generations

Learning from in-country innovations and building a global community for change

Summary

The UN Summit of the Future and the Wellbeing of Current and Future Generations was a powerful framing and a once-in-a-generation opportunity that is inspiring hope, energy and agency. The Declaration on Future Generations (DFG), due to be adopted at the Summit, signals widespread recognition that short-term crisis management is insufficient to address today’s challenges. It invites governments and multilateral organisations to instead prioritise long-term thinking in policy and planning.

But how do we turn this ambition into concrete action and impact? The School of International Futures (SOIF) has launched the Implementation Handbook for the UN Declaration on Future Generations to answer this question.

There are many innovators around the world who are already making visible changes in governing for the long term. SOIF has drawn on research and interviews with hundreds of changemakers across more than 50 countries to produce an Implementation Handbook, outlining a practical roadmap for national-level champions—policymakers and civil society—to embed intergenerational fairness and long-term governance principles into their national strategies.