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The goal of the Global Challenges Foundation is to minimize, preferably eliminate, global catastrophic risks, ie catastrophes that could wipe out more than 10 percent of humanity or cause damage that significantly impairs on the living conditions of a large proportion of the people on earth.
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Global challenges require global cooperation. We will not come up with and implement the perfect solution to the world’s greatest challenges on our own. In fact, nobody will.
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Better forms of communication could break emotional barriers that currently stand in the way of greater citizen engagement with global institutions
https://globalchallenges.org/who-cares-about-global-governance/
Global challenges require global cooperation
How can we then ensure that #leaders go beyond the narrow terms of their mandate and address #GlobalChallenges that will affect their constituents in the future? 🌏
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If anyone has the power to solve global crises, it would seem to be our officially elected leaders. But the leader of a nation only holds...
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Despite a virus that has claimed millions of lives and cost billions of dollars since the start of 2020, leaders from around the world now face two problems in seeking to allocate resources. First, there is a temptation to shift focus elsewhere as the threat from Covid appears to be fading. Second,... there are intensifying demands from other threats, most immediately the invasion of Ukraine
https://quicktelecast.com/health-groups-urge-greater-funding-to-combat-future-pandemic/
International policymakers gathering in London today are braced for a tough task: two years after Covid-19 unleashed an enormous human and economic...
quicktelecast.comThe #ClimateCrisis and the #COVID19 pandemic harshly highlight that there is a lack of an “all-of-government” and an “all-of-multilateralism” approach to addressing contemporary #global threats of a non-military nature. 🌐
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The climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic harshly highlight that there is a lack of an “all-of-government” and an...
globalchallenges.org.@jodilhbutts interviews @OrbackJens on global catastrophic risks #globalcrisis for @Canada2020 podcast #ClimateCrisis #solution. Listen👂on the link below -->
Show @@podcastShowName@@, Ep Global Catastrophic Risks with Jens Orback - Mar 10, 2022
podcasts.apple.comThis knowledge overview paper explores the implications of complexity thinking for governing global catastrophic risks (GCRs), in particular a new breed of super-complex GCRs. It offers a novel interrogation of why legacy governance structures are ‘not fit for purpose’ when it comes to ...responding to the complex drivers of GCRs. 🌐
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This knowledge overview paper explores the implications of complexity thinking for governing global catastrophic risks (GCRs), in particular a new...
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As we are looking forward towards #Stockholm50 what can we learn from previous environmental work in the UN?
In view of the sanctions against Russia, how does the global financial system actually work?