From Boundaries to Breakthroughs: Science for a Regenerative and Equitable Future
New York and Nairobi
8 – 30 Septembre 2026
Regeneration · Equity · Global Governance
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The Science Summit 2025 highlighted the urgency of operating within the planetary boundaries — the environmental thresholds that define the safe space for humanity. In 2026, the world moves from understanding the limits to defining the pathways forward.
Science Summit 2026 will focus on how science, technology, and innovation can drive regeneration — restoring ecosystems, rebuilding equity, and renewing trust in the scientific enterprise. It will explore the transition from boundaries to breakthroughs, where knowledge becomes the catalyst for global transformation.
This Summit will bring together leaders from science, policy, finance, civil society, and industry to identify the mechanisms that can scale innovation, mobilize capital, and govern technologies responsibly to achieve a regenerative and inclusive global economy.
The UN Pact for the Future and Declaration on Future Generations are entering their implementation phase.
The Financing for Development (FfD4) outcomes adopted in Seville (2025) call for a new
Global Science Financing Mechanism.
Preparations for the post-2030 Sustainable Development Agenda are intensifying, as are
negotiations on the UN Global Digital Compact and Global Climate Finance goals.
Against this backdrop, the Science Summit 2026 will serve as a multi-stakeholder platform to operationalise these frameworks through evidence-based science, technology deployment, and international cooperation.
Exploring how science and innovation can regenerate ecosystems and resources — from soil to oceans, from energy to materials.
Harnessing genomics, One Health, and digital innovation to ensure equitable access to healthcare and preparedness for future challenges.
Building trustworthy AI, open data, and digital public goods for science and society.
From mitigation to regeneration — exploring climate restoration technologies and planetary systems science.
Bridging policy, finance, and science to unlock new investment models for innovation in developing countries.
Positioning science as a pillar of diplomacy and peacebuilding, empowering regional scientific leadership, particularly in Africa and the Global South.
Putting Science at the Heart of Global Solutions
Online and in-person programme from New York and Nairobi
Bringing the world’s leading scientific voices together
Hybrid programme from New York, coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly 81
Hybrid programme from Nairobi: African Leadership Driving Global Science
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The Science Summit demonstrated how the right convening space could align research, finance and policy to bring more scalable impact.
The UN’s 2025 embrace of the Science Summit ends science’s absence from global deliberations. This is the turning point.
The Convening power of the Summit gives us, the Global Health Connector exciting opportunities to meet global experts from public and private sector organisations. The convergence of experts produces real partnerships and action ,or as we say CollaborAction.
The Science Summit 2025 was a timely opportunity to reinforce the role of science, data, and digital innovation in advancing equitable and resilient global health systems through evidence-based policy and strong partnerships.
Science Summit 25 platform amplified island perspectives, enabling a worldwide dialogue on how Living Labs can transform fragile ecosystems into engines of sustainable change.
A Science Action Declaration 2026, outlining pathways from knowledge to implementation.
Recommendations for science financing, AI governance, and international partnerships aligned with the Pact for the Future.
Launch of Science Investment Roundtables to connect capital markets and innovation ecosystems.
Enhanced collaboration between global scientific institutions, multilateral banks, and private investors.
Supporting a new global framework for financing science and innovation.
Accelerating progress through regenerative and equitable science systems
Linking scientific research to climate action and ecosystem restoration.
