G20 Summit in Focus
Read our analysis of the 2024 G20 Leaders' Summit and what it means for COP29 and beyond.
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Introducing "Solution Spaces"
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New Publication: Financing the SDGs in Focus
GSI Fellow Helge Sigurd Naess-Schmidt and co-authors provide key analysis in their latest issue paper.
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Global Solutions Summit 2024
May 6-7, 2024, at ESMT Berlin.

This year's theme is “Moving Beyond the Crisis: Mobilizing Change for Global Prosperity."
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Global Solutions Journal - Issue 10
Structured around the six priorities set by T20 Brasil, Issue 10 includes 30 contributions by 86 leading experts.
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Meet the 2024 Young Global Changers
The vibrant 2024 cohort of Young Global Changers

Get to know these 50 young changemakers with inspiring and unique projects!
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Our Network
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS

PUBLICATIONS

NEW ESSAY
Markus Engels argues for the G20 as a driver of global multilateralism

PUBLICATIONS

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS JOURNAL
Issue 10 Now Online

SUMMIT 2024

Read a recap of the summit

NEWS

NEW PARTNER
Partnership with Project Liberty Institute Launched

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OUR PROGRAM

ECONOMIC PARADIGM CHANGE The workshop series invites major contributors in the development of new paradigms for economics, an underlying critique of orthodox economies and its central charachteristics: individualism, socially disengaged behaviour, etc.
ECONOMIC PARADIGM CHANGE
The workshop series invites major contributors in the development of new paradigms for economics, an underlying critique of orthodox economies and its central charachteristics: individualism, socially disengaged behaviour, etc.
MEASURING PROSPERITY The workshop series aims to bring the measurement of prosperity in these two domains into consonance as a prelude to the consistent assessment of government policy and business reporting.
MEASURING PROSPERITY
The workshop series aims to bring the measurement of prosperity in these two domains into consonance as a prelude to the consistent assessment of government policy and business reporting.
RECOUPLING DASHBOARD The Recoupling Dashboard is a country-specific research tool to measure the wellbeing of societies beyond GDP and illustrates the correlation of economic prosperity, social prosperity and environmental sustainability.
RECOUPLING DASHBOARD
The Recoupling Dashboard is a country-specific research tool to measure the wellbeing of societies beyond GDP and illustrates the correlation of economic prosperity, social prosperity and environmental sustainability.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY The Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) advance the circular economy agenda and facilitate the initiative to disseminate green technologies globally and their contextualized application.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) advance the circular economy agenda and facilitate the initiative to disseminate green technologies globally and their contextualized application.
DIGITALIZATION IN AGRICULTURE The workshop series on "Enabling policies for digitalization in agriculture" aims at developing concrete policy recommendations for digitalization in agriculture to enhance productivity, inclusivity, and sustainability.
DIGITALIZATION IN AGRICULTURE
The workshop series on "Enabling policies for digitalization in agriculture" aims at developing concrete policy recommendations for digitalization in agriculture to enhance productivity, inclusivity, and sustainability.
DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT The workshop series aims at improving the rules of digital governance to protect individuals and democracy in an environment distorted by the power of obscure, mass data aggregation and influencer-paid surveillance capitalism.
DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT
The workshop series aims at improving the rules of digital governance to protect individuals and democracy in an environment distorted by the power of obscure, mass data aggregation and influencer-paid surveillance capitalism.
REVISITING DIGITAL GOVERNANCE The GSI has set itself the goal of actively advancing the debate on digital governance and developing proposals in close cooperation between research, business and politics that will lead to the reorientation of the digital space.
REVISITING DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
The GSI has set itself the goal of actively advancing the debate on digital governance and developing proposals in close cooperation between research, business and politics that will lead to the reorientation of the digital space.
RETHINKING MULTILATERALISM AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE The workshop series will discuss new strategies and models for international cooperation that is sustainable, resilient and just in the light of multiple global crises.
RETHINKING MULTILATERALISM AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
The workshop series will discuss new strategies and models for international cooperation that is sustainable, resilient and just in the light of multiple global crises.
CHINA-WEST DIALOGUE The China-West Dialogue (CWD) is an inclusive project which draws together thought-leaders. The CWD seeks to define an “alternative framework” for China-West relations which dominate geopolitics.
CHINA-WEST DIALOGUE
The China-West Dialogue (CWD) is an inclusive project which draws together thought-leaders. The CWD seeks to define an “alternative framework” for China-West relations which dominate geopolitics.

WHO WE ARE

OUR VISION 
A global economic system that benefits people and planet.

OUR MISSION
Mobilize change to recouple economic progress with social and environmental prosperity.

The Global Solutions Initiative (GSI) works towards a global economic system that benefits people and planet. Rooted in research, GSI brings together policy, academia, civil society, and the private sector to generate insights for better global governance.

Founded in 2017, the Berlin-based independent, non-profit organization annually convenes the Global Solutions Summit, which serves as a steppingstone to the G20 and G7 Summits. GSI is led by Dennis J. Snower, Markus Engels, and Christian Kastrop. The Global Solutions Initiative was founded during the 2017 German G20 Presidency by the Initiative’s President Dennis J. Snower.

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SUMMIT

The Global Solutions Summit – the World Policy Forum – is an international conference aimed at addressing key policy challenges facing the G20 and G7 and other global governance fora.

Distinguished experts from think tanks, research organizations, governance, business, and civil society come together each year in the middle of every G20 Presidency to work on concrete policy solutions.

The next Global Solutions Summit will take place on May 5-6, 2025. Stay up to date on social media and in our newsletter.

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The G20 Insights Platform offers policy proposals to the G20. It is an initiative of the Think 20 Engagement Group.

The Policy Briefs, produced by Task Forces from the Think20 (T20) Group and other sources, are clustered in Policy Areas, Presidencies and Task Forces and describe either recommendations or visions.

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