GOODNESS GRACIOUS, so many meetings of the minds going on. Every time you turn around the ELITE and/or the “STAKEHOLDERS” are having some kind of GATHERING. Plotting and Planning how they are going to reign in the mindless masses.
That is how they see us, I hope you know. In their opinion, they are the only ones worthy to make decisions for all the rest of us.
There is no way to bring the whole world into agreement. There are two many different people groups, too many individuals with their own ideas of how things should be and what they want to do with their lives. A dictatorship is the only way that there can be a GLOBAL GOVERNMENT. I don’t know about you but in my mind I cannot picture feeling safe and at peace under a totalitarian regime. Big brother watching every move you make, determining where you can live, what you can do, what you can eat and how you can spend your time and money and all of it enforced by an iron fist, is not my idea of peace. Neither does it leave any room for freedom for anyone but those at the very top of the pyramid.
If you imagine that this “GLOBAL UTOPIA” they promise will be free of “RELIGIOUS” ORDIANCES AND REQUIREMENTS or even free of RELIGION AT ALL you better think again. Because in TRUTH there are only two forces at work in this world. GOOD and EVIL, THE ONE TRUE ALMIGHTY GOD and THE DEVIL and his minions. Any god, demon, force, energy, spirit, sprite, entity you worship that is not the ONE TRUE CREATOR GOD, comes from one source… DARKESS. They like to call their religion “enlightenment” and their leader “the Light Bearer”. But, that is a lie. Just lie everything else that comes out of them. SATAN/LUCIFER is the bringer of deception, of a False light. JESUS is THE LIGHT. Satan and his minions are leading everyone they can down the path of destruction.
Those who believe themselves to be the sons of the gods and their progeny have plans for you. Believe me their plans are not for your good.
But, GOD says:
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13
We are getting closer and closer to end of TIME. This world as we know it is about to be destroyed. That is why those who serve the forces of darkness are scrambling like crazy. If they cannot defeat GOD, they want to take as many of us with them that they can.
Their next big pow wow will take place on September SUMMIT for the Future.
22-23 September 2024, in New York, New York
This post is my effort to help you to know what is happening, understand what it means for you, and make your own mind up about whether you wish to surrender your God given authority to them.
Many of you very likely assume that “summit” just means meeting. Naturally, since that is the way the word has been applied in modern times. It is not what the word means at all.
Here is the etymology of the word summit, which really means HIGHEST.
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 The “high places” is a shorthand term for places of pagan worship, usually (though not always) on hills or mountains to bring them closer to their false gods. They were centers of idolatry, 93 Bible results for “High Places” from King James Version. |
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So, this people, have raised themselves up to a level they believe to be HIGH above everyone else. In their opinion, they have not only the RIGHT but the OBLIGATION to RULE over the masses. Since they view the rest of us as inferior, and incapable of self determination, it seems on logical in their minds that they should usurp our rights and whatever freedom we imagined ourselves as possessing. Whatever they determine to be the right and ethical path according to their way of thinking, their beliefs and their gods, will be the rule of law. At least, if we allow it.
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High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Concludes
(Note: Due to the financial liquidity crisis affecting the United Nations and the resulting constraints, this meeting was not covered.)
The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development concluded its three-day ministerial segment today, with the adoption of a Ministerial Declaration and the Forum’s procedural report. It concluded its general debate on the theme “From the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future” and held voluntary national reviews, with presentations by Austria, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Congo, Ecuador, Namibia, Oman, Brazil, Mexico and Vanuatu.
Held under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, the Forum took place from 8 to 17 July. This year’s theme was “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions”.
The session included the three-day ministerial segment of the Forum from 15 to 17 July as part of the High-Level Segment of the Council, which will conclude on 18 July.
The programme is available online.
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* This includes the Economic and Social Council plenary, 34th Meeting.
The UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) was held in New York from 8 to 17 July 2024. The HLPF is the core UN platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The theme of the 2024 forum was “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions”. It conducted in-depth review of SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 13 (climate action), SDG 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) and SDG 17 (partnerships for the Goals).
UNU-IAS contributed to the forum through the following events and expert presentations.
The Japanese word satoyama describes a landscape that lies between the opposites of the natural and human worlds. Source
This is a religion that does not know the Creator. God created the world for mankind/humanity. Humans are not invaders on the earth. We are not the destroyers, unless we are following the Destroyer. Humans who live by God’s commands are husbandmen to the Earth. While we were hunter-gathers and even as an agricultural society, we lived in harmony with nature. Even the early tools were made from natural material. TECHNOLOGY is what ruins EVERYTHING.
But, the elite have convinced everyone that Humanity/Mankind is EVIL and Destructive and a CURSE ON THE EARTH.
In the following segments you will see that the elite want to bring us back into bondage to the demonic forces that ruled the pagan world.
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Satoyama (里山) is a Japanese term applied to the border zone or area between mountain foothills and arable flat land. Literally, sato (里) means village, and yama (山) means hill or mountain Source
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The term satoyama translates loosely into “countryside” in English and is a conjunction of the words for “village” and “mountain”. But it’s generally used for regions that sit between the mountains and rural farmland, where communities live in harmony with the natural world in a traditional manner.
Satoyama essentially describes a way of life, where old-fashioned customs related to agriculture and spirituality are followed and embraced. Villages that stick to the ways of satoyama still use traditional techniques for farming and living. Rice paddies and piles of firewood are common sights in these places, just as they would have been centuries ago. If you want to get a sense of what Japan’s traditional side is like, then you’ll definitely want to visit a satoyama village.
But satoyama regions also place a high degree of importance on the natural world and its spiritual importance. These beliefs say that the natural world is home to all manner of gods and deities, and that it is therefore the duty of believers to protect it. As such, these regions are known for their biodiversity and are leading examples of ecotourism in Japan.
Satoyama Initiative
One of several attempts to support and preserve the satoyama concept is the Satoyama Initiative. This project was established through UNESCO in 2009 to recognize and promote destinations that embody the spirit of satoyama, not just in Japan but globally. Over one hundred governments and organizations have joined the initiative so far to support such communities and help provide education of the values of this eco-friendly philosophy.
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(PDF) The Origin and Meaning of Satoyama
The Origin and Meaning of Satoyama: A People’s Perspective from Citizens of Suzu City, Japan / excerpts only read the full document at: ResearchGate
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Oku-noto no Aenokoto
Inscribed in 2009 (4.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
© 2008 by Noto-cho, Housu-gun, Ishikawa-ken
Oku-noto no Aenokoto is an agricultural ritual transmitted from generation to generation by the rice farmers of the Noto Peninsula, which projects from Ishikawa prefecture in the centre of Japan’s main island, Honshu. The twice-yearly ceremony is unique among the harvest rituals of Asia in that the master of the house invites the deity of the rice field into his home, behaving as though the invisible spirit were really present. In December, to express gratitude for the harvest, the farmer draws a bath and begins to prepare a meal, summoning the deity from the field with the sound of pounding rice cakes. Welcoming his guest in formal clothes with a lantern, the farmer allows it to rest in a guest room before assisting it with a bath and offering a meal of rice, beans and fish. Because the deity is said to have poor eyesight, the host describes the meal as he serves it. A similar ritual is performed before planting in February to ensure an abundant harvest. Performed with individual variations throughout the region, Oku-noto no Aenokoto reflects the everyday culture of the Japanese, who have cultivated rice since ancient times, and serves as a marker of identity for the area’s farmers.
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The concept of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) is distinct from, and more complex than, a conventional heritage site or protected area/landscape. A GIAHS is a living, evolving system of human communities in an intricate relationship with their territory, cultural or agricultural landscape or biophysical and wider social environment.
The humans and their livelihood activities have continually adapted to the potentials and constraints of the environment and also shaped the landscape and the biological environment to different degrees. This has led to an accumulation of experience over generations, an increasing range and depth of their knowledge systems and generally, but not necessarily, a complex and diverse range of livelihood activities, often closely integrated.
The resilience of many GIAHS sites has been developed and adapted to cope with climatic variability and change, i.e. natural hazards, new technologies and changing social and political situations, so as to ensure food and livelihood security and alleviate risk. Dynamic conservation strategies and processes allow maintaining biodiversity and essential ecosystem services thanks to continuous innovation, transfer between generations and exchange with other communities and ecosystems. The wealth and breadth of accumulated knowledge and experience in the management and use of resources is a globally significant treasure that needs to be promoted and conserved and, at the same time, allowed to evolve.
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Showing Hospitality to the Rice-Field Deities
November 2020
In the Oku Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, an agricultural ritual in which farming families show hospitality to the deities of the rice fields has been passed down for over 200 years.
In Oku Noto, a rice-producing region, an agricultural ritual known as Oku-noto no Aenokoto has been handed down by farming families for many years and has been inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The “Ae” of Aenokoto means “hospitality through food” and “koto” means “ritual.”
Aenokoto is a rite in which farming families show hospitality to the deities of the rice fields, and it is performed every year on December 5 and February 9. In December, farmers give thanks for the year’s harvest by inviting the deities of the rice fields into their homes, and in February, before planting, they pray to the deities for an abundant harvest and show them back out to the rice fields.
What makes this custom unique is that the head of the house, wearing formal robes, performs the ritual while speaking politely as if the deities were actually present.
The ritual in December begins with the head of the house going into the rice fields carrying in one hand a sacred sprig of a young evergreen tree and, in the other, a hoe. The farmer ceremonially tills the soil with the hoe three times then leads the deities back to his house. The deities are considered to be a married couple, and as both are said to have poor eyesight, the head of the house deferentially guides them and talks to them politely. For example, if there are steps in their path, he says, “There are some steps. Please step carefully.”
When they reach the house, the farmer invites the deities to rest by the hearth. While they are resting, he checks the temperature of the bath, and when the water is deemed hot enough, he invites the deities to bathe. After that, he guides them to the sitting room and describes the feast of rice, black rockfish, vegetables and other produce laid out before them. The head of the house expresses gratitude to the deities for the harvest of the ingredients. After the meal, the deities retire to a space where stacked rice bales have been ceremonially placed, and they stay there until February. In February, a similar ritual is performed, in which the deities are shown back out to the fields.
It is not clear when these rituals were established, but we know that they have continued for at least 200 years, as tableware for Aenokoto has been found inscribed with a date from the second half of the eighteenth century. During the Edo period (1603–1867), when there were no modern agricultural technologies, farmers faced many difficulties in producing rice, including weather disasters and pests. As Oku Noto is located between the mountains and the sea and has few open plains, rice is cultivated in small terraced fields carved out of the mountains, requiring a great deal of effort. It is thought that the ritual of paying respects to the deities of the rice fields, symbolic of nature itself, began as a means of overcoming these challenges.
Takeuchi Tsuyoshi, a representative of the Noto Mirai Sozo Network (Network in Noto for Future Design), says of Aenokoto, “It is fundamentally a conveyance of gratitude for the deities of the fields for the harvest of this year and a prayer for the next good harvest.”
The Noto Mirai Sozo Network was established with the goal of promoting the revitalization of the Noto region, and it manages Gorokuan, a thatched-roof house in the Yanagida Botanical Park where visitors can watch Aenokoto at any time of year.
Takeuchi says, “All of the dishes presented in the ritual are offered in generous portions. On top of that, two servings are prepared as the deities are a couple. After the ritual, the food is eaten by the family members.”
However, there are fewer and fewer farmers each year left to pass on the custom of Aenokoto. Tashiro Nobuo, from the Local Promotion Division at Noto Town Hall, says, “Currently, there are about eighty farmers who perform Aenokoto. Simplification of the ritual slowly continues and there may only be ten farmers remaining who perform the ritual in the formal attire. I hope visitors learn how local people relate to nature by watching the ritual at Gorokuan.”
This rare ritual of showing hospitality to the deities of the rice fields is a part of Japanese farming culture. Local people continue to work together to preserve and pass on this unique folk tradition.
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HLPF Special Event Highlights Critical Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development
HESI Global Forum discusses the intersection of education, innovation, and sustainability.
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Jonghwi Park – Academic Programme Officer, Head of Innovation and Education – United Nations
On 15 July 2024, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), co-chaired by UNU, organized a special event at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York. The HESI Global Forum, on the theme The Future of Higher Education for Sustainable Development, brought together a diverse group of stakeholders and showcased innovative projects contributing to the SDGs.
The forum explored the potential of emerging technologies to enhance sustainability efforts in higher education. A multi-stakeholder panel discussed how emerging technologies such as AI can advance the SDGs, innovative teaching and learning practices that promote sustainability in higher education, visions on the future of higher education and ways to strengthen partnerships between universities and other stakeholders.
Shen Xiaomeng (Vice-Rector in Europe, UNU & Director, UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security) underscored the urgency of transforming higher education to address global challenges and harness emerging technologies. Prof. Shen recognized the potential of technology, including AI, to help achieve the SDGs, and contribute to solutions to the interconnected challenges that the world is facing. She noted that “AI can be a powerful and transformative tool, yet AI is a double-edged sword”, recognizing its environmental footprint and the existential questions raised by its ever-increasing capabilities. This presents an opportunity for higher education to take on a critical role, to “ensure inclusive access to AI for all learners, bridge the technology divide, and develop AI ethically, with human rights at its core”.
Jonghwi Park (Academic Programme Officer, UNU-IAS) announced the launch of a HESI Action Group on Futures of Higher Education and AI, which UNU is co-leading with the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC). “We would like to place higher education at the heart of informing our society of evidence-based directions for AI for sustainable development”, Dr Park added, highlighting the important role of higher education in maximizing the potential benefits of using AI while minimizing the risks and inequality issues it raises. The action group will serve as a transdisciplinary collaborative platform that will build a knowledge base on the current trends, opportunities and risks that AI poses to higher education through the lens of sustainable development. A call for partner institutions was made to join sub-action groups on AI for teaching and learning; research and development; community-industry engagement; AI for university administration; AI ethics and inclusivity.
The HESI Global Forum generated recommendations and strategies that will inform policy and practice, shaping advocacy efforts and action plans for sustainable development in higher education. The forum served as a preparatory platform for upcoming initiatives that will be advocated or launched at the September 2024 Summit of the Future.
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AI has the potential to transform education, but also carries serious risks, school leaders warn … [+]
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School leaders have warned that AI poses a “real and present” danger to education, leaving teachers “bewildered” by the pace of change.
And they have cast doubt on the ability and willingness of both governments and technology companies to regulate the technology effectively to protect the interests and well-being of students.
Developments in artificial intelligence have gripped the public imagination since Open AI released ChatGPT in December last year, but there is growing disquiet at the potential impact on education.
Now a group of school leaders in the U.K. has outlined their fears in a letter published in today’s London Times.
The letter warns of the “very real and present hazards and dangers” presented by AI, alongside the potential to benefit students and staff.
And while much attention has focused on the risk of students using AI to cheat in coursework and assessment, there are also concerns about the impact on children’s mental health as well as on the teaching profession.
The school leaders, led by Sir Anthony Seldon, the head of Epsom College and biographer of former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, also announced the creation of an advisory body to help teachers navigate developments in AI.
“We have no confidence that the large digital companies will be capable of regulating themselves in the interests of students, staff and schools and in the past the government has not shown itself capable or willing to do so.”
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HLPF Special Event Highlights Critical Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development
HESI Global Forum discusses the intersection of education, innovation, and sustainability.
On 15 July 2024, the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI), co-chaired by UNU, organized a special event at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York. The HESI Global Forum, on the theme The Future of Higher Education for Sustainable Development, brought together a diverse group of stakeholders and showcased innovative projects contributing to the SDGs.
The forum explored the potential of emerging technologies to enhance sustainability efforts in higher education. A multi-stakeholder panel discussed how emerging technologies such as AI can advance the SDGs, innovative teaching and learning practices that promote sustainability in higher education, visions on the future of higher education and ways to strengthen partnerships between universities and other stakeholders.
Shen Xiaomeng (Vice-Rector in Europe, UNU & Director, UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security) underscored the urgency of transforming higher education to address global challenges and harness emerging technologies. Prof. Shen recognized the potential of technology, including AI, to help achieve the SDGs, and contribute to solutions to the interconnected challenges that the world is facing. She noted that “AI can be a powerful and transformative tool, yet AI is a double-edged sword”, recognizing its environmental footprint and the existential questions raised by its ever-increasing capabilities. This presents an opportunity for higher education to take on a critical role, to “ensure inclusive access to AI for all learners, bridge the technology divide, and develop AI ethically, with human rights at its core”.
Jonghwi Park (Academic Programme Officer, UNU-IAS) announced the launch of a HESI Action Group on Futures of Higher Education and AI, which UNU is co-leading with the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC). “We would like to place higher education at the heart of informing our society of evidence-based directions for AI for sustainable development”, Dr Park added, highlighting the important role of higher education in maximizing the potential benefits of using AI while minimizing the risks and inequality issues it raises. The action group will serve as a transdisciplinary collaborative platform that will build a knowledge base on the current trends, opportunities and risks that AI poses to higher education through the lens of sustainable development. A call for partner institutions was made to join sub-action groups on AI for teaching and learning; research and development; community-industry engagement; AI for university administration; AI ethics and inclusivity.
The HESI Global Forum generated recommendations and strategies that will inform policy and practice, shaping advocacy efforts and action plans for sustainable development in higher education. The forum served as a preparatory platform for upcoming initiatives that will be advocated or launched at the September 2024 Summit of the Future.
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UNU-IAS Highlights Crucial Role of Cities in Leveraging Climate–SDG Synergies
A special event of the 2024 UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development discussed leveraging synergies between climate action and SDGs.
On 16 July 2024, UNU-IAS contributed to a special event of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York, on the theme Bridging the Ambition Gap for the Future We Want through Climate and SDGs Synergy.
The event featured the launch of the 2024 Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergies, developed by a group of independent experts co-convened by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and UN Climate Change (UNFCCC Secretariat). It provides a roadmap for policymakers with concrete recommendations on how to realize synergistic climate and SDG actions on the ground.
Speaking in a roundtable on Seeking Synergy Solutions and the Role of Knowledge and Data and Cities to Accelerate Climate and SDGs in Synergy, Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi (Director, UNU-IAS) stressed the unique role of cities in synergistic solutions to accelerate climate action and SDG progress.
Half of the world’s population resides in cities and urban areas, generating between 71% and 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Prof. Yamaguchi underlined that if cities become platforms for synergistic action, the potential for transformative change could be enormous.
Drawing on UNU research, she highlighted three urgent efforts required.
First, systemic efforts are needed to deliver integrated climate action planning and coherent infrastructure policies.
Second: Effective multi-level governance is also necessary to ensure the successful implementation of synergistic solutions in cities and in building integrated data collection efforts. Prof. Yamaguchi emphasized the importance of having national and local governments, civil society, the private sector, and citizens working together to foster cross-agency coordination.
The third point she highlighted was building capacity and enhancing knowledge utilization in cities, explaining that we must also focus on enhancing the capacity of policymakers to deliver on the SDGs and the Paris Agreement together. This includes investing in education and training programs that build the skills necessary for climate action planning, monitoring and reporting, data analysis, interpretation and application.
The event was co-organized by UN DESA and UN Climate Change.
A recording of the event is available on UN Web TV.
United Nations HE forum explores AI’s role in sustainability
Institutions working with and within the United Nations’ Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) have been building action groups and collaborations to boost how artificial intelligence might aid the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
That was a key message of the HESI Global Forum 2024 on “The Future of Higher Education for Sustainable Development”. The annual HESI forum was held in New York on Monday 15 July as a special event to the 2024 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the UN’s main platform for reviewing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Jonghwi Park, head of innovation and education at the Tokyo-based United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) warned: “The world is feeling very divided about AI,” including regarding sustainable development.
While there is appreciation of how AI can provide personalised tutoring for students and many other functions, there is also concern that such services will focus on students speaking one of the world’s major languages such as Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi and Arabic.
Park warned that this could accelerate “the extinction of minor languages”.
She explained: “This is where higher education comes into play with leadership to inform our society on how to maximise the potential of AI by minimising the risks and inequality issues that AI may pose to humanity.”
The United Nations University and the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) are responding by co-launching a HESI Action Group on the Future of Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence. Its goal, said a UNESCO note, is: “To drive ethical and effective digital transformation at higher education in making efforts towards a sustainable future for all.”
Park said the group would stage webinars and develop research papers that will “deep dive into sub-topics”. Through “academically productive debates we hope that our efforts and knowledge outputs will inform member states in decision making and on adopting AI for their sustainable development and also UN agenda setting,” Park added.
It will work and seek synergies with other HESI action groups, such as those on university leaders; student action; rankings and ratings; education for green jobs; and the SDG publishers’ compact.
The new HESI action group will also work with other initiatives, such as: IESALC’s guidelines on using ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education; and academic research, such as using deep data and AI analysis to understand the impact of academic journals in achieving SDGs.
UN Global Digital Compact
Jayashri Wyatt, chief of the education outreach section at the outreach division of the UN department of global communications, told the forum: “Generative AI is transforming the world; the potential is immense.”
She said concerns about AI would be integrated into a UN Global Digital Compact policy to be agreed at the September United Nations Summit of the Future, with the goal being an “inclusive open secure digital future for all”.
This will require international cooperation and governance, Wyatt said, with equitable and inclusive access to AI: “We need humane technology; we need humane Gen AI” that is subject to regulation based on risk, set before AI is released.
Her concern is that research takes time and “investment and the research now is not keeping pace with [technological] developments” as AI systems hit the market.
Wyatt said the UN was working to make this policy strengthen the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative, which engages higher education institutions with UN activities.
The UN Global Digital Compact policy will help the UN encourage member states to invest in AI research and prioritise responsible regulation, she said, highlighting UNAI’s promotion of a University of Oxford research initiative aimed at ensuring that AI technologies are promoting social good, including studies examining AI ethics and the relationship between AI and the SDGs.
Higher education must do more
Quinn Runkle, director of education at SOS-UK (Students Organising for Sustainability), agreed that “there are big risks and challenges ahead” in the advancement of technology. “The higher education sector needs to be pushed to go further and faster in the face of the climate and ecological emergency”. This is fear mongering. The elite use fear to drive people to the choices they want them to make. They want you to get into such desperate straights that you must have outside help whether you turn to them and their technology or to the old gods, demons or ancestors it does not matter. AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT BELEIVE AND TRUST IN THE CREATOR, ALMIGHTY GOD. Because any other god, be is science, or self, or the sea, or the stars, or angels or demons, or demigods, or goddesses, or sprites, or mermaids, or fairies, or little folk, etc. They are all on the same side. They are all PAGAN and not the TRUE and LIVING God who is the ONLY ONE who can save you.
Runkle asked: “How do we collectively push those lagging behind to catch up?” The answer she suggested is: “We need all institutions and all students to experience a higher education in which sustainability is deeply integrated.” In other words, we (the elite) need to INDOCTRINATE them while they are yet young. So that they will be predisposed to agree with whatever we (the elite) put forth.
The conference heard of a series of initiatives that will help to achieve this. One is the launch by UNESCO IESALC of a SET4HEI sustainability evaluation tool for higher education institutions, a free, online and open resource to map higher education current and potential future contributions to achieving the SDGs.
Victoria Galán-Muros, chief of research and analysis at the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education, said the system was a result of a one-year consultation with education and sustainability leaders plus academics after many higher education institutions had requested support on helping to advance the SDGs:
“They have the interest, but they didn’t know how to proceed.”
She said the tool is unique and multidimensional: “It’s global, it’s open, it’s free, should be simple, transparent and non-competitive in nature, and longitudinal so you can come back and check your results.”
Duncan Ross, director of data and analytics at Times Higher Education – which produces one of the global university rankings – welcomed this move, saying: “It’s great to see global rankings agencies having increasingly put aspects of sustainability into their rankings and into their assessments.
He said that it was also good to see consistent growth in the number of universities that are participating in sustainability assessments.
The ‘greening’ of rankings, he argued, “is now by quite a considerable margin the single biggest way in which universities across the world are holding themselves accountable for the work that they’re doing in terms of sustainable development goals”.
Ross said that next year the HESI Ratings, Rankings and Assessments Action Group, which he co-chairs, will work with national and international student groups, developing more collaboration.
The activist university
Such work matters, said Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, in a keynote address called “Rethinking Higher Education for a Sustainable Future”.
“The SDGs represent a lifeline to universities and higher education,” he said.
“They call upon us to be activists in this 21st century – the activist university that has sleeves rolled up and is out there in the community … participating in human development, helping to resolve some of the major problems facing humanity,” such as poverty, food security, public health and climate change.
“The activist university looks beyond itself – the university sees its own role not only in terms of its internal sustainability but also the role it has to play in promoting human development. No university can claim to be excellent unless they are ethical,” he explained.
Now, I want you to really think about the last 100 years. With all the technology, research, experimentation, studies, committees, summits, all the work the projects that have come out of the United Nations, all the policies, and all the pacts/agreements/ and resolutions; how much real, true progress have you seen in ANY AREA of life? Not only is our environment being destroyed, our agriculture, our government, our legal systems, our law enforcement, our schools, our neighborhoods, our infrastructure, our faith, our trust in government, our free press, our supply system, have all gone to pot. Our world is falling apart. Not because of the common people but because of the rulers of this world. The real problem is that we have turned away from GOD and allowed ourselves to be herded right back into bondage to demonic spirits and Fallen Angels. The elite, are and even claim to be, descendants of the fallen. Why would we listen to anything they have to say. The TRUTH is NOT IN THEM. They can only speak lies for they are of their FATHER the Devil/Satan/Lucifer/The Adversary.
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The Summit of the Future: multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow will be hosted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 22-23 September 2024. The organisers are calling it a “once-in-a-generation opportunity“, aiming to strengthen global governance for the sake of present and future generations. The goal is to agree on a concise, action-orientated Outcome Document (“A Pact for the Future”) in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations and endorsed by Heads of State/Government at the Summit. In addition, the summit may address the possibility of a UN Special Envoy for Future Generations, an option the World Future Council has long advocated for – as well as other institutional reforms or initiatives that protect and enshrine the rights of future generations.
With UN-resolution adopted on 8 September 2022 setting out the modalities for the Summit of the Future, further planning is to take place at the HLPF this July and the SDG Summit in September 2023.
The UN Summit of the Future is a timely initiative by the United Nations as we face historically unprecedented challenges, both in their globality and their vast time horizon: with many of the decisions we make today we are not just affecting the next century or two, but millennial or even geological time spans. It is therefore most urgent to address the long-term impacts of our actions. How can we protect the future against the pressures of the here and now?
The Summit of the Future follows on from a series of UN Summits. Last year, at the UN Environment Stockholm+50 conference in June 2022, relations between humans and nature were top of the agenda, in December 2022, the Kunmig-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted and most recently, the High Seas Treaty, also known as the biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction treaty (BBNJ) was agreed in March 2023. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on world leaders to end a “senseless and suicidal war against nature: We know what to do. And, increasingly, we have the tools to do it. … I appeal to leaders in all sectors: Lead us out of this mess”.
The General Assembly decided that the Summit of the Future would take place in September 2024, building on the 2023 SDG Summit, and that its outcome would be an intergovernmental negotiated, action-oriented Pact for the Future, comprising a chapeau and five chapters on sustainable development and financing for development; international peace and security; science, technology and innovation and digital cooperation; youth and future generations; and transforming global governance.
The aim of the Summit is twofold: accelerate efforts to meet our existing international commitments and take concrete steps to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.
Dates: 22-23 September 2024
Location: New York City, US
Oficial website: https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future
Pact for the Future Zero Draft
Germany and Namibia, co-facilitators of the Summit, announce the release of the zero draft of the Pact for the Future. The draft is intended to serve as a starting point for the intergovernmental deliberations this year, with the ultimate aim of adopting an ambitious, concise, action-oriented Pact for the Future, per resolution 76/307.
Participation of the Global Platform for the Right to the City
For the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C), the Summit of the Future is an opportunity to strengthen alliances with civil society organizations and local and regional governments seeking to contribute and influence discussions around democratizing and reshaping the multilateral system; and to influence programs and strategies towards localization of SDGs through territorial-based strategies, community-led and based on Human Rights.
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