Global Solutions Initiative
The Global Solutions Initiative is a think tank network that advises international organizations such as the G20 , the OECD and others on issues of global problems such as climate change, social injustice or migration and makes political and research-based recommendations. The seat of the secretariat is in Berlin. The Global Solutions Initiative was founded in 2017 on the occasion of the German G20 Council Presidency by Dennis J. Snower , who is also President of the initiative. After the German, the Argentine (2018) and Japanese G20 presidencies (2019), the initiative has accompanied.
Structure and goal
The backbone of the Global Solutions Initiative are the think tanks (T = Think) that are part of the T20 network. The initiative has brought together the think tanks and universities associated with it in the "Council for Global Problem-Solving" (CGP). This formulates research-based policy recommendations for the G20, which are presented annually to the respective G20 President via the T20. In terms of content, the recommendations relate to the priorities of the G20 and T20 (e.g. climate change, social inequality, data society, migration, gender equality, cooperation with Africa, future of work, further development of multilateralism, global health care, food and energy security). The Global Solutions Initiative makes the recommendations for action available to the public on the "G20 Insights Platform". The research coordinator of the Global Solutions Initiative is the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW).
The Global Solutions Initiative is committed to ensuring that the center of politics, business and social coexistence is the recoupling of economic, technological and social progress. In order to achieve this, there must be a paradigm shift in business and society towards sustainability:
“Recoupling is [...] about focusing on future-oriented training and lifelong learning, with a focus on social solidarity and personal ability to shape one's own life through one's own strength. So to include the social dimension of every action. (Dennis J. Snower and Markus Engels on the concept of "Recoupling" in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 27, 2019) "
management
Dennis J. Snower is the founder and president of the Global Solutions Initiative . In addition, since the academic year 2019/20 he has been Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government (Oxford University), Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution and visiting professor at University College London and Birkbeck College , Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (London), at the IZA (Institute for the Future of Work, Bonn) and at CESifo (Munich). Until 2019 he was President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). The general secretary of the initiative is Markus Engels, who u. a. worked for the German Bundestag, the SPD and the European Parliament. Susanne Staufer is the managing director of the Global Solutions Initiative Foundation.
Formats and publications
The Global Solutions Initiative organizes the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin once a year, which takes place in the middle of each G20 presidency. Heads of government, ministers, representatives of international organizations and global civil society as well as business representatives with leading academics will be invited to this conference to discuss concrete proposed solutions for sustainable multilateralism . Chancellor Angela Merkel , Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, among others, have already participated in the Global Solutions Summit, as have EU Vice-Commission Presidents Frans Timmermans and Valdis Dombrovskis , Nobel Prize winners Georg Akerlof , James J. Heckman , Edmund Phelps , and the G20 Sherpa the OECD Gabriela Ramos , the President of the Global Summit of Women Irene Natividad and the founder of the African technology group Janngo, Fatoumata Ba .
The Global Solutions Initiative also offers an annual trainee program for young executives from all over the world who are committed to the initiative's recoupling narrative. As part of the so-called Young Global Changers (YGC) program, up to 100 young people from research, policy advice, business and civil society are invited to the Global Solutions Summit and attend a summer school beforehand.
The Global Solutions Initiative is the publisher of the Global Solutions Journal , which brings together articles by academics, business and civil society authors who work on implementing ideas for global solutions. The editions are intended to build a bridge between visions, recommendations and actions and will be published for the Global Solutions Summit and official T20 events.
financing
The Global Solutions Initiative is financed through cooperation with partners, including a. with the Mercator and Robert Bosch Foundation , the Hertie School of Governance , the Berliner Tagesspiegel , the Bertelsmann Foundation , the German Federal Environment Foundation , the Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) , the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Konrad-Adenauer- Foundation , the Berlin Senate , the Federal Foreign Office and PwC International . In addition to Tagesspiegel , the media partners are Bloomberg , Deutsche Welle and the local radio station Radio Eins .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Snower and Markus Engels: Saturday essay: Survival with a system. In: sueddeutsche.de . September 27, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019
- ↑ Carlotta Hartmann: Dennis Snower continues research . In: Taz . February 13, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019
- ↑ Marius Mestermann, Claudia salts, Paul Starzmann, Thorsten Mumme, Markus Lücker, Nora Maria Zaremba: A call for more international cooperation . In: Tagesspiegel . March 19, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019
- ↑ Video: Olaf Scholz during the 3rd Global Solutions Summit on March 18th, 2019 . In: Phoenix YouTube channel. March 18, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019
- ↑ Sabine Kinkartz: The G20 and nationalism . In: Deutsche Welle . May 29, 2018, accessed November 5, 2019
