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Key Deliverables in the Pact Include: • Agreement to strengthen international frameworks
• The most progressive and concrete commitment to that govern outer space, including a clear commitment
Security Council reform since the 1960s, with plans to to prevent an arms race in outer space and the need
improve the effectiveness and representativeness of to ensure all countries can benefit from the safe and
the Council, including by redressing the historical under- sustainable exploration of outer space.
representation of Africa as a priority. • Steps to avoid the weaponization and misuse of new
• The first multilateral recommitment to nuclear technologies, such as lethal autonomous weapons, and
disarmament in more than a decade, with a clear affirmation that the laws of war should apply to many of
commitment to the goal of totally eliminating nuclear these new technologies.
weapons.

On Sustainable Development, Climate and Financing for On Digital Cooperation
Development • The Global Digital Compact, annexed
• The entire Pact is designed to turbo-charge implementation of the to the Pact, is the first comprehensive
Sustainable Development Goals. global framework for digital cooperation
• The most detailed agreement ever at the United Nations on the and AI governance.
need for reform of the international financial architecture so that it • At the heart of the Compact is a
better represents and serves developing countries, including: commitment to design, use and govern
- Giving developing countries a greater say in how decisions are technology for the benefit of all. This
taken at international financial institutions; includes commitments by world leaders
- Mobilizing more financing from multilateral development banks to:
to help developing countries meet their development needs; - Connect all people, schools and
- Reviewing the sovereign debt architecture to ensure that hospitals to the Internet;
developing countries can borrow sustainably to invest in their - Anchor digital cooperation in human
future, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), UN, G20 and rights and international law;
other key players working together; - Make the online space safe for all,
- Strengthening the global financial safety net to protect the especially children, through actions
poorest in the event of financial and economic shocks, through by governments, tech companies and
concrete actions by the IMF and Member States; social media;
- Accelerating measures to address the challenge of climate - Govern artificial intelligence (AI),
change, including through delivering more finance to help with a road map that includes an
countries adapt to climate change and invest in renewable International Scientific Panel and a
energy. Global Policy Dialogue on AI;
- Improving how we measure human progress, going beyond GDP - Make data more open and accessible,
to capturing human and planetary wellbeing and sustainability. with agreements on open-source
• A commitment to consider ways to introduce a global minimum data, models and standards;
level of taxation on high-net-worth individuals. - This is also the first global
• On climate change, confirmation of the need to keep global commitment to data governance,
temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to placing it on the UN agenda and
transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems to achieve net- requiring countries to take concrete
zero emissions by 2050. actions by 2030.

Youth and Future Generations Human Rights and Gender
• The first-ever Declaration on Future Generations, with • A strengthening of our work on human rights, gender
concrete steps to take account of future generations equality and the empowerment of women.
in our decision-making, including a possible envoy for • A clear call on the need to protect human rights
future generations. defenders.
• A commitment to more meaningful opportunities • Strong signals on the importance of engagement of
for young people to participate in the decisions that other stakeholders in global governance, including
shape their lives, especially at the global level. local and regional governments, civil society, private
sector and others.

There are provisions across the Pact and its annexes for follow-up action, to ensure that the commitments made are implemented.

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