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The OECD is developing a dashboard of indicators that track recovery in four key dimensions – strength, resilience, inclusiveness and sustainability – the OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría said today on the Global Solutions Summit. This approach is very close to our Recoupling Dashboardhe which  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.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi, Italy’s Prime Minister and President of the G20, kicked off the second day of the Global Solutions Summit by making a strong case for multilateralism and global cooperation in tackling global issues including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. “The pandemic shows that all of the attempts to fight it at the national level will simply not be sufficient, it cannot be sufficient in order to overcome the Covid-19 crisis,” Merkel said. “We need to ensure access in all countries – access to vaccines, to medication, to tests, and this is true for the poorest countries in the world.” The German chancellor said she took pride in the fact that Europe is exporting vaccines to other nations, and warned that incentives should not be reduced for vaccine research and development in preparing for future health threats. Draghi said that at the beginning of the pandemic, “multilateralism was weak … because there wasn’t enough of it.” “Multilateralism is now bouncing back,” he said, stressing that Italy, which holds the G20 presidency this year, is “determined to lead a change in the paradigm – the world means the world, not a collection of individual states.” Draghi said the European Union “has shown its sovereignty in the vaccine campaign,” and called for “a joined sovereignty in Europe in many fields besides the health area.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi, Italian Prime Minister and President of the G20, are set to open the second conference day on Friday, which will also feature UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Tune in a 1 pm.