WSDS 2026: Plenaries Sessions
Transformations through Vision, Voices and Values for Sustainable Development
This session will open the Summit by setting the tone for collective action. The session will highlight global leadership, shared responsibility, and moral purpose as guiding forces to accelerate transformative pathways for people and planet.
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Transforming through and for Nature
Transforming through and for Nature explores how nature-based solutions can drive climate resilience, restore ecosystems, and reframe development pathways while delivering co-benefits for people, planet, and prosperity.
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Towards a Himalayan Coalition for Sustainable Development
Towards a Himalayan Coalition for Sustainable Development, strengthened regional cooperation across the Himalayan region can advance climate resilience, safeguard fragile mountain ecosystems, and shape sustainable development pathways. The session highlights how protecting and working with nature can deliver co-benefits for people, planet, and prosperity.
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Greening Manufacturing and Trade
This session will explore how green manufacturing and sustainable trade can reshape global value chains. The session will examine pathways for the Global South to lead equitable transitions through innovation, circularity, and resilient industrial ecosystems.
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Future Tech for People, Planet, and Prosperity
This session will explore how emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and green chemistry—will drive sustainable innovation. The session will discuss how these advances can accelerate climate action, enable inclusive growth, and safeguard planetary boundaries.
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Ministerial: Multilateralism as a Force for Hope and Impact
This session will explore how emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and green chemistry—will drive sustainable innovation. The session will discuss how these advances can accelerate climate action, enable inclusive growth, and safeguard planetary boundaries.
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In Conversation: Multilateralism as a Force for Hope and Impact
This session will explore how renewed cooperation can rebuild trust and deliver collective progress on global challenges. The session will envision how inclusive, reformed, and responsive multilateral systems can translate shared purpose into meaningful action for people and planet.
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The Climate Finance Imperative
This session will examine how climate finance (including through public and grant-based finance, innovative financial instruments, and private sector engagement) can strengthen climate action, particularly for adaptation and resilience. It will explore the transformations needed to enable effective, adequate, and equitable finance flows, especially for vulnerable countries and communities.
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Accelerating Clean Energy Solutions
This session will explore how collaborative action among national, state, and city governments—along with the private sector—can accelerate energy solutions. The session will highlight pathways for multi-level governance, policy innovation, technologies, and investment to power a just and inclusive energy future.
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Valedictory: Reflections, Resurgence, and Resolve for Our Common Future
This session will conclude the Summit by reaffirming shared commitments to sustainable development. The session will reflect on collective learnings, celebrate renewed global resolve, and envision pathways for collaborative action toward resilient and inclusive common futures. The Act4Earth Manifesto will be launched.
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