Shaping the future of multilateralism
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
Date: 02/06/2021

More info: https://eu.boell.org/en/future-of-multilateralism

Global governance is the challenge of this decade. The international system has been ill-equipped to deal with the parallel and intersecting crises of the Covid-19 pandemic, rising debt levels and accelerating climate change. Global inequality and poverty are on the rise at a time when trust in multilateral institutions and processes is at a low point.
At a time when the United States is returning to the global stage and when liberal democracies are debating how to counter the influence of China’s authoritarian model, it is time to explore new visions of fiscal solidarity, ecologic sustainability and the protection of human rights.
With this event, and through our new publication series, we want to open up a conversation on pathways to a just, sustainable and democratic international order that takes into account the needs and priorities of countries with emerging and developing economies and the most vulnerable people and communities. Our discussion inputs will focus on the connections between debt and climate finance, on the conditions for fair trade with goods as well as digital services, as well as on a vision for the global economy that promotes and protects diversity, human rights and gender equality.
The inputs will be the basis for a high-level panel discussion among policymakers and experts from the EU, US, and the Global South.
A project by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC offices.