Global Governance for Peace and the SDGs
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) invites you to join us for the four-part webinar series, Global Governance for Peace and the SDGs, designed to make sense of today’s rapidly evolving global challenges, share best practices, and identify solutions for sustainable development beyond 2030.
Our world is grappling with more obstacles to sustainable development than ever before. Mounting pressures — rising climate change impacts, escalating global conflicts, intense power competition and technological races, persistent human rights violations, economic fragmentation, chronic underfinancing, and societal polarization. Together, these forces are reshaping the geopolitical landscape.
Against this backdrop are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal blueprint for addressing poverty, inequality, climate change, and the long-term viability of our planet. Adopted by all 193 UN Member States in 2015, the SDGs remain significantly off track, with fewer than 20% of targets expected to be achieved by 2030. In addition, the UN faces deep political, operational, and financial challenges, but remains critical for fostering cooperation, establishing global norms, and overcoming the complex geopolitical obstacles we face.
The UN is now entering a new era, with the appointment of a new Secretary-General this year and governments beginning to formally review the SDG agenda and define the post-2030 pathway. In this critical moment, the SDSN will convene a series of four global webinars examining the geopolitics of war and peace, the acceleration of SDG implementation, UN reform, and the post-2030 agenda.
Webinar Sessions
The Geopolitics of War and Peace:
February 2, 2026, 9:00 to 10:30 AM ET | Register
Sustainable development depends on peace and cooperation. This opening session will consider recent crises that are rapidly reshaping the geopolitical order. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, President of the SDSN, and will feature leading foreign policy experts. Speaker announcements coming soon.