Global Citizen Festival 2024: Doja Cat, Rauw Alejandro and More Announced to Headline

On a wider scale, the aims for this year’s campaign include demanding equity and defending the planet. Equity comes from the access to nutritious food, health systems and quality education, wherein support from governments such as Australia, Norway and Spain, amongst others, will be solicited for funds.

Defending the planet as part of the Global Citizen’s aims seeks to invest $1 billion in the protection and restoration of the Amazon rainforest, and also supporting indigenous communities who are guardians of 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity. The need to defeat poverty remains a cornerstone of the Global Citizen mission, and during the 2024 campaign, calls will be made to the G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the U.K. and the U.S. — to step-up their support for anti-poverty programs worldwide.

With the aim of replenishing the International Development Agency by at least $100 billion, which would go into supporting the social and economic development of more than 1.5 billion people across the world’s 75 lowest-income countries, there’s a need to tackle the major issues spreading poverty across the globe.

“For countries like Zambia,” says Hakainde Hichilema, the President of Zambia, “Global Citizen’s support of the World Bank’s replenishment could not have come at a more critical time. As our worst agricultural season in over 40 years takes hold, our nation and our neighbors are facing dire food shortages and severe instability in our power supply. The participation of the world’s wealthy nations in this replenishment is not just generosity — it is life or death for millions experiencing the worst impacts of climate change.”