A Space 18th SDG for the Future, Hybrid Workshop at U.N. Plaza 777, NYC

2025 is a crucial year. United Nations and its subsidiaries will perform two important re-examinations: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 17 SDGs, issued in 2015), and the Space 2030 Agenda (issued in 2021). The Space 18th SDG Coalition already developed a substantial critical review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and advanced a fundamental amendment: to add an 18th SDG, focused on Civilian-led Space Development. The Space 18th SDG Coalition also wants to bring its contribution to the discussion on the Space 2030 Agenda. All the Space Advocacy Organizations are warmly suggested to perform a critical review of such text. Space Renaissance International already initiated the work, and will soon propose a general review and some key amendments. While the most relevant concern in the Agenda is sustainability, space is only conceived as a tool to support sustainability on Earth’s surface. There’s no mention of outer space as an arena of possible expansion and development for human civilization. No mention of space settlement, nor of its fundamental contribution to solving the social and economic issues of civilization. Possible amendments should remediate such an incredible lack: to add an Overarching Objective 5, on Civilian Space Development, Space Settlement, and Industrialization, as key factors of sustainable development, having social, economic, and environmental concerns as primary criteria, in reshaping the Space 2030 Agenda. The day includes two main modules: – Module #01 – Symposium for the Future, starting 9 am, New York time – Module #02 – Round table on 5 sessions: Space 2030 Agenda – a Critical Review, Space for Peace, Space for Sustainable Economic and Social Growth, Space for Young Generations, Space for Earth’s Environment and Sustainable Development – starting 2:30 pm, New York time Many speakers and panelists, including well known public figures as Bob Zubrin and Frank White, diplomats and activists for human rights at U.N., like Claire Nelson, will be questioned about the critical issues faced by civilization, that require concrete actions before 2030. The meaningful concepts that will emerge during the workshop will be the subject of a final recommendation and will be key parts of the narration brought ahead by the Coalition’s representatives at U.N. COPUOS, ECOSOC and, even most important, to the public audience worldwide. The workshop is also intended to be a useful conceptual input to the two meaningful U.N. instances, occurring in September, in the same location in NYC: the Summit of the Future (SOTF), and the U.N. 79th General Assembly.

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