Our Future Agenda Quarterly

EDITOR'S NOTE

As 2025 comes to a close, this final edition of Our Future Agenda Quarterly looks back, but more importantly, it looks forward.

This edition brings together the strongest moments from across the year – where big global debates became more connected to the lives of young people and the countries where most future generations will live.

We begin in Brazil, on the edge of the Amazon, where our Intergenerational Town Hall happened alongside COP30. Led by Next Generation Fellows, this powerful moment brought together young people, elders, Indigenous leaders, artists, scientists, and policymakers to imagine the world we are building toward 2030, 2050, and 2100 – laying the groundwork for the Belém Declaration on Future Generations.

In From Vision to Action, we explored the landmark new project from the Next Generation India Fellows, Our Future India – a future-focused, youth-informed roadmap for India at 100, with insights from across the nation and the diaspora.

In 2025, Our Future Agenda also set its sights on a more equal financial system with The Economy Reboot, a video series that saw 15-year-old hacker Jacob take on and dismantle the ‘bosses’ of unfair financing – find out more in Hacking a Fairer Future for Global Finance.

A culmination of the year’s abundant energy and optimism, The Future is Now reflected on the final Engine Room pitstop of 2025, where Action Groups pitched their campaigns to contribute to the 2100 roadmap. Read the article to find out how you can get involved in 2026.

As the United Nations hit a new milestone, we celebrated its past while also looking to its future. In Insights from Youth on UNGA 80, we reflected on the changes young leaders are calling for from the institutions shaping their future, while helping to shed light on some of its more mysterious processes and buzzwords in The UN Loves Acronyms.

Taken together, these stories point to a shared truth: that the future is being shaped right here and right now. In Amazonian cities and island states, in youth-led spaces, and in the choices leaders make today.

As we turn toward 2026, one moment will loom large. Next year, the world will begin the process of selecting the next United Nations Secretary-General, a decision that will shape global cooperation well beyond 2030. At a time when trust in institutions is fragile and long-term challenges demand courageous leadership, this transition will test whether multilateralism can evolve to reflect the realities, voices, and futures of a changing world. It is a moment to watch closely, and to engage with care.

We invite you to read this edition with curiosity, and with responsibility. Because the work of building a fairer, more sustainable future is no longer theoretical. It is already underway, and it belongs to all of us.

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