Empowering Global Goals Through Expositions

Promoting the SDGs

We advance the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) through public-private partnerships. These include hosting international expositions, convening global educational forums, participating in United Nations events, and providing technical and financial support to expo bid committees and campaigns. Most recently, this has included Arizona’s bid to host the 2035 World Expo, South Carolina’s campaign to host a Specialized Expo in 2032, and Minnesota's bids to host Specialized Expos in 2023 and 2027 and Horticultural Expos in 2025 and 2031.

As one aspect of our SDG work, we promote participation by our national government in international expositions. In 2017, for example, we successfully brought the U.S. State Department back into full membership in the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the official coordinator of World Expos. BIE membership was necessary before Minnesota was allowed to officially advance its SDG Expo bid.