Reworlding Planetary Governance: YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON FUTURE GENERATIONS.

On March 14, 2025, 35 students from Arizona State University (ASU) and the Université Paris Cité / Learning Planet Institute (LPI), as well as young members of Je m’engage pour l’Afrique (JMA), gathered in Paris for a UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab titled Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance.

The Lab was organised as one of the first in a series of carry-through activities following the UN Summit of the Future (20-23 September 2024) orientated toward implementation of the Pact of the Future outcome document, as framed in the side event From Idea to Action and Impact: Mobilizing the outcomes of the Summit of the Future.

Designed in collaboration with the UNESCO Futures Literacy team and the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, the Lab was hosted at the Learning Planet Institute (LPI).

The goal was not to predict what may come next, but to practice different ways of seeing, sensing, conceptualizing, and shaping what might be possible by imagining and developing plausible scenarios for the future. 

We invite you to read the Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.

This report was prepared by UNESC0-MOST BRIDGES COALTION; ASU JULIE ANN WRIGLEY GLOBAL FUTURES LABORATORY & LEARNING PLANET INSTITUTE, based on youth contributions arising from the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab. 

Steven Hartman, Executive Director of BRIDGES, will be joined by Nsah Mala from the BRIDGES University of Cologne Hub, for a Futures Workshop Session at World Futures Day 2025, on 2 December, at UNESCO HQ in Paris, along with Maria Angelica Mejia, and students, from Learning Planet Institute (LPI), to present the outcomes of the UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance, contained in this Report.  More information can be found here. 

What if the very act of learning could be planetary?

What if a university could be a place not only of knowledge, but of responsibility, reciprocity, and regeneration? 

And what if governance made space for those who have never been allowed to speak—rivers, trees, future generations, and the systemically unheard?

Download the Report.