Governments are making decisions on economic change, emerging technologies, climate and energy transitions, security and demographic pressures whose effects will be felt for decades. Yet political, budgetary and institutional cycles often reward short-term responses. This can shift costs and risks onto younger people and future generations, weaken trust and make it harder to sustain action across electoral cycles. Countries are responding in different ways. Governments and legislatures are testing parliamentary bodies, legal duties, foresight and anticipatory governance, participatory processes, financial mechanisms and new forms of youth and intergenerational representation. These approaches are at different stages, but together they offer practical evidence about how long-term considerations can influence decisions.

The New Alignment is an emerging coalition between countries, institutions and generations working to ensure that decisions made today are fairer to people across the life course and to generations yet to come. This session will connect countries already innovating, compare what is changing in practice and identify where collaboration could help these approaches become more durable and transferable. The event will inform The New Alignment Intergenerational Justice and Solidarity Working Group, a UCL Institute for Global Prosperity initiative established in advance of the United Kingdom's 2027 G20 Presidency. The Working Group is the mechanism for comparing evidence and developing practical recommendations. The discussion itself will centre on country experience and the contribution that the G20 and wider multilateral system could make.