{"id":53605,"date":"2018-09-29T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=53605"},"modified":"2018-12-04T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:37:22","slug":"forest-whitaker-and-prime-minister-solberg-speak-at-the-global-citizen-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/09\/forest-whitaker-and-prime-minister-solberg-speak-at-the-global-citizen-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Whitaker and Prime Minister Solberg speak at the Global Citizen Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>On 29 September 2018, <strong>SDG Advocate Forest Whitaker<\/strong>spoke on stage at the Global Citizen Festival: Be The Generation in New York. He joined other celebrities and leaders in donating their time to advocate for action on the SDGs, making a specific statement on the importance of education as a tool to change the world. Hosted this year by Hugh Jackman and featuring artists such as Janet Jackson and The Weeknd, the Global Citizen Festival encourages people from around the world to call on world leaders to fulfill their obligation to achieve the SDGs by 2030. <strong>SDG Advocate and Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg<\/strong>also addressed the crowd via video message to emphasize Norway\u2019s commitment to protecting our oceans and calling on other countries to come together to combat marine pollution. The Festival wrapped up Global Citizen Week, during which 17 commitments, 23 announcements, and 24 calls to action were made to achieve the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlblCtzn\/status\/1046176134130544640\">Video clip of Forest speaking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 29 September 2018, SDG Advocate Forest Whitakerspoke on stage at the Global Citizen Festival: Be The Generation in New York. He joined other celebrities and leaders in donating their time to advocate for action on the SDGs, making a specific statement on the importance of education as a tool to change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":53608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}