While delegates noted global progress in expanding education, healthcare, and social protection systems in the past three decades, many considered this Summit both timely and necessary to renew the global commitment to social justice, inclusion, and sustainable human development.

The four major climate funds jointly announced their commitment to enhance access to and increase the collective impact of climate finance. At this event, high-level leaders discussed the drive to achieve coherence and complementarity in crucial climate finance processes.

Representatives of trade unions, workers, and youth called for solidarity between climate and labor movements to achieve a just transition and combat the climate crisis. This event stressed basic rights – labor, energy, food, and others – at stake in the push for climate and social justice.