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Capacities for the Future Day | 7th Capacity Building Hub
19 November 2025
Despite ongoing challenges and setbacks in global climate action, individuals, communities, institutions and countries are making meaningful efforts to navigate the long-term challenges of planetary health and well-being. This thematic day focuses on the "unknown future" as a critical knowledge gap, responding to the need to think beyond the constraints of present realities. For this purpose, the day's sessions aim to foster transformative capacities to enable systemic thinking, innovation and creativity for deep changes to explore alternative futures in line with the SG's UN 2.0 initiative. Capacities for the Future Day aims to integrate diverse knowledge systems, including cultural, artistic, and scientific perspectives, to co-create regenerative and equitable futures through knowledge sharing, imagination, and open dialogue.
Kickoff Podcast
Listen to this introductory podcast of "Climate Action 101: Futures Literacy" that sets the stage for the thematic day!
From virtual reality to cinema and cultural expression, this session invites us to weave knowledge, imagine our different futures where creativity and technology help us see, feel and communicate about the world we aspire to live in.
What if we could play our way toward a more resilient planet? Join this interactive journey where imagination meets policy, and creativity drives transformation. Through futures literacy, this session explores how to reframe negotiations, bridge fragmented approaches, and co-create strategies to tackle the triple planetary crisis: climate, biodiversity, and land degradation.
As the world transitions to a green economy, how can communities be equipped with the skills to thrive? This session spotlights innovative approaches from Brazil and the UNESCO-UNEVOC network showing how technical and vocational education (TVET) empowers people to tackle climate challenges, build resilience, and drive sustainable change.
What does a people-centered future look like? This interactive World Café and Fish-Bowl session invites participants to reflect on community resilience, green skills, and the power of futures literacy to reimagine climate action. Together, we’ll explore how creativity, dialogue, and shared imagination can bridge science, policy, and practice—turning hopeful visions into collective action.
Step into the spotlight for a high-energy pitching competition that looks ahead to the future of climate action! Selected participants will present bold ideas, innovative visions, and transformative solutions that imagine and shape the futures we want. Expert mentors will share live feedback to help refine each pitch, and the audience will vote for the most inspiring vision for our shared climate future!
End the day with stories that move hearts and minds. The Futures Movie Night brings together short films and documentaries that capture the human side of climate action, from ancestral farming traditions to visionary urban transformations.
