Behind the scenes at the General Assembly
Focus on the Future is a podcast mini-series, taking listeners behind the scenes during the busiest week of the year at UNHQ, with all the action from the General Debate, the Summit of the Future, and main side events (including the SDG Media Zone and SDG Lounge).
Each episode will have an overall topic, linked to the focus of the day, and will include highlights from the GA debate and a colourful wrap up of the side events.
The series is a takeover of The Lid Is On, the UN's flagship news podcast, from Monday 23 September to Friday 27 September.
You can find Focus on the Future by subscribing to The Lid Is On podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most major podcast platforms.
Music by Joachim Harris, all rights reserved
Focus on the Future: Peace, out
The risk of the world’s major powers engaging in conflict is at its highest level since the Cold War, and the possibility of nuclear war breaking out is greater today than it has been for several decades.
Focus on the Future: A world in dangerous waters
In the Pact for the Future UN Member States pledged to do more to fight the climate crisis, a subject that has dominated several sessions at UN Headquarters this week.
Focus on the Future: The World arrives
Reforming the Security Council, to make it more representative of today’s world, has been under discussion for decades. The subject made it into the Pact for the Future, adopted earlier this week. Does this mean that it is more likely to happen?
Focus on the Future: Ascending the Summit
Crippling debt burdens are holding many African countries back: some of them are paying more on repayments than on health, education and infrastructure.
Focus on the Future: Signed, sealed, delivered
On the first episode of Focus on the Future, our mini-series running throughout High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, Conor Lennon and Shanaé Harte explain what the Summit of the Future is all about, how to bring back trust