UN Day Event: "The World We Want, the United Nations We Need"

The seventeen interconnected Sustainable Development Goals provide the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. In order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030. Reaching each of these goals on a global scale will require effective cooperation across borders, sectors and generations. Failure to do so will have far-reaching consequences for the welfare of our children and grandchildren -- and our planet itself. To mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in 2020, under the leadership of Secretary-General António Guterres, the UN plans to launch a series of dialogues involving people from all regions and walks of life to discuss how we can collectively navigate the gap between the world we want and where we are headed, if current negative trends continue. This Minnesota event, held in honor of UN Day (Oct 24), will kick off a year of Minnesota-based activities, engaging "we the peoples" in creating "The future we want, the UN we need."