Strategic Foresight

The inaugural UN 2.0 Awards recognize UN system teams and initiatives that are achieving outstanding results through new ways of working and new solutions.

A practical conversation on what it takes for innovation to move beyond pilots and become lasting institutional change.

A forward-looking session on how digital systems can build trust, improve access and serve people in real-world contexts.

An open, audience-driven exchange on the realities of leading transformation across the UN system.

A candid opening conversation to take stock of where UN 2.0 is delivering change, where progress is uneven, and what needs to shift next.

This first edition of the 2025 UN Innovation Update showcases how 31 UN entities are testing, scaling, and applying practical solutions across health, climate, education, humanitarian action, and more, to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

This session explores feminist foresight tools to challenge assumptions, amplify excluded voices, and drive bold, gender-equitable change.

UN 2.0 Side Event on Foresight: Future of Programming

Youth Foresight: Reimagining Decision-Making Spaces

A virtual UN 2.0 side event organized for exploring how IOM is using innovation, data, and youth leadership to operationalize anticipatory action in migration management.

DigitalAAP at UN 2.0 showcased AI-powered refugee feedback, turning real-time insights into faster humanitarian decisions.

Humanity faces intertwined challenges like climate change, geopolitical instability, and socioeconomic disparities, shaping children's well-being. Addressing these issues requires integrated, equitable solutions and informed policy choices. This study presents four scenarios modeling the long-term impact of technology, resources, and global cooperation on human development.

Explore how 40 UN Entities are leveraging innovative thinking, technologies and new way of working in their work.

An extended global foresight report with regional and stakeholders' insights

This report provides an update on the state of climate science and the latest weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.

This comprehensive action plan encourages UN entities and teams to adapt the actions to the current stage of their journey, setting ambitious targets for each step.