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Global Economy Addressing the need for sustainable and balanced economic growth, the Global Economy program is a central area of CIGI expertise. Its importance was heightened by the global financial crisis at the end of the last decade which gave impetus to the formation of the G20 leaders’ summits — a development for which CIGI experts had advocated.
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The Institute for New Economic Thinking, CIGI and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change host its third annual plenary conference in Berlin from April 12 to 15, 2012. The conference, entitled “Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics," takes place in the Axica Conference Center adjacent to the world famous Brandenburg Gate.
In advance of G20 summits, CIGI conducts an active outreach and consultation program with the summit host country and key G20 stakeholders. This includes private and public preparatory meetings with summit organizers, policy makers and representatives from leading international think tanks.
| Environment and Energy Planet Earth faces severe and growing stresses as a result of human development and consumption. The Environment and Energy program at CIGI focuses on governance issues related to climate change, geoengineering (from a governance perspective), sustainable economics, alternative energy, and agriculture and food security.
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In August 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the UN High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable growth. The panel was tasked with exploring different approaches to effectively tackle hunger, inequality and the deterioration of the natural environment.
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Concepts for intentionally modifying our global climate — known as geoengineering — are rapidly emerging into the scientific and policy discussions surrounding climate change. This project focuses on the international governance framework for the various geoengineering modalities being proposed across the globe.
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Global Security Since humans first began to deploy weaponry in inter-tribal warfare, our greatest danger has been, collectively, from ourselves — and at no time has the risk been greater than in the modern age, with its weapons of mass destruction. CIGI’s Global Security program focuses on a range of issues in peace, conflict and security, including nuclear-energy governance.
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Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency seeks to capitalize on the success of the Nuclear Energy Futures project by advancing ideas contained in the project report "The Future of Nuclear Energy to 2030 and its Implications for Global Governance."
This project examines the continued relevance of the United Nations (UN), as well as the use of the UN as the universal forum of choice for the international community to debate and manage global governance issues. This line of inquiry leads to the ultimate question of whether the UN can evolve with the times.
| Global Development CIGI's Development Program focuses on "global development," which emphasizes the importance of systemic coherence and shared responsibility for overcoming global and international challenges to equitable growth and sustainable development.
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The program will focus on innovative financing of development, with emphasis on the role of emerging donors, both state and non-state. The sectors of concentration are infrastructure/connectivity, technology sharing, and health.
This project will convene high-level discussions to assess current international development mechanisms and advance policy options for the post-Millennium Development Goals governance paradigm. Undertaken in partnership with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the project’s outputs will influence emerging policies and governance innovations in the development field.
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