17/08/2024
One of the most promising expected outcomes of the SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE 2024 is a range of initiatives due to emerge from the FUTURE GENERATIONS EXCHANGES.
Youth and the Elderly are both closest to the quality of total detatchment from existing frameworks typical for the state of "being unborn". That is a crucial source of creativity, change-making and social innovation, constituting intergenerational dialogue and collaboration. Ambassador Kobsak Chutikul, Moderator (thanks for sharing the pictures) proposes a FUTURE GENERATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE based in Thailand and reaching out to ASEAN and the Asia Pacific Region.
The urgent need to appoint a Special UN Envoy for Future Generations has been articulated for decades by the World Future Councild (WFC) based in Hamburg, Germany. One of the WFC Councillors and also the Co-Chair of the Earth Trusteeship Working Group, Neshan Gunasekera, Sri Lanka, will be in Bangkok this 27th August.
Assoc. Prof. Emilie Gaillard, expert in "future generations and legal transitions" and co-founder of the Chaire Normansie pour la Paix, French co-sponsor of the Pacific Island Students Fighting against Climate Change will attend the Summit of the Future in New York; as will Jan Van De Venis, Netherlands Human Rights lawyer, Deputy Chair of the global network of institues for future generations with 20 members worldwide.
A big thank you to Ambassador Kobsak, Emilie and resource persons Khun Chamsai of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Khun Suchada Kulawat, Senior UN analyst, Jeta Jiranuntarat of Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) and Christian Mortelliti of United Nations ESCAP.