Global Governance
The Global Challenges Foundation aims to strengthen global governance to address the world's most pressing challenges, such as climate change, nuclear war, and pandemics.
What is global governance?
Global governance can be defined as the system of institutions, rules, norms, and procedures that enable international cooperation on issues that cross national borders.
These issues include economic development, trade, human rights, peace and security, and environmental protection.
The system aims to facilitate decision-making and co-operation among international actors, including states, intergovernmental organisations, business, non-governmental organisations and other parts of civil society.
The goal of global governance is to find and manage collective solutions to global challenges.
Why global governance matters
In today’s interconnected world, there are many challenges that require globally coordinated solutions. Global governance creates a system for countries and other international actors to cooperate and make decisions together, to effectively manage these shared risks.
Our approach to global governance
Our belief is that the current system is inadequate at handling the scale and complexity of today’s global challenges.
To better address these complex challenges, the Global Challenges Foundation supports key strategies in its work to strengthen global governance:
- Enhanced Collaboration: We push for stronger cooperation among nations and global actors to effectively manage shared risks.
- Innovative Solutions: We focus on the development of new frameworks for global decision-making to better address emerging and complex challenges.
- Inclusive Participation: We prioritize the engagement of diverse voices in global governance to ensure that decision-making reflects a wide range of perspectives.
- Pioneering Research: We aim to drive change by supporting pioneering research and collaborating with global agents of change to better spread the findings and recommendations from the research.
Our vision for the future
Our ultimate goal is to help create a safer, more sustainable world. One where global risks are managed effectively, and all people can live with dignity. Achieving this requires a fundamental transformation of the global governance system, a change that can be achieved through collaboration, collective action, and innovation.