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Young people to gather at the Â鶹APP to drive urgent action on the Sustainable Development Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n Innovate, Unite and Transform: Youth Shaping the Road to 2030<\/strong><\/p>\n Young leaders, innovators and advocates from around the world will gather at Â鶹APP Headquarters in New York on 14 to 16 April 2026 for the 2026 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum<\/a>, to advance innovative solutions to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the world confronts increasingly complex and interconnected crises \u2014 from climate change and growing inequalities to economic and technological transformations \u2014 the leadership and voices of young people have never been more vital.<\/p>\n Held under the theme \u201cInnovate, Unite and Transform: Youth Shaping the Road to 2030,\u201d<\/em> the Forum \u2014 the largest annual gathering of young people at Â鶹APP Headquarters in New York \u2014 provides a global platform for youth to engage with Member States, the Â鶹APP system, and other stakeholders, reaffirming young people as essential partners in building a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future.<\/p>\n Discussions will focus on clean water (SDG 6), energy (SDG 7), infrastructure (SDG 9), sustainable cities (SDG 11), and partnerships (SDG 17, which will be discussed in depth at the upcoming 2026 High-level Political Forum<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/p>\n WHEN: <\/strong>14 \u2013 16 April 2026<\/p>\n WHERE: <\/strong>Â鶹APP Headquarters, New York, and streamed live on UN WebTV: http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n FORMAT:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>SDG MEDIA ZONE: In Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n Join the Â鶹APP Department of Global Communications at the virtual SDG Media Zone<\/a> during the 2026 ECOSOC Youth Forum and hear about the transformation and solutions needed to accelerate action on the SDGs. The SDG Media Zone extends discussions beyond the policy space and into the public sphere through impactful interviews and conversations on issues that matter to people everywhere.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>KEY LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Media Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n Media Advisory Young people to gather at the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117618,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117614\/revisions\/117618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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