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Press release:
Young Global Changers Recoupling Award - Start-ups for a better world
Mathias Charles Yabe is awarded the first prize of the Young Global Changers Recoupling Award. The founder of the Ghana-based startup AkoFresh receives the first prize for developing solar-powered cold storage facilities that can drastically reduce food loss in rural Africa. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros.
Press release:
Global Solutions Summit 2022
Accelerating the Circular Economy transition
Doubling the circularity of the world economy from 10% to 20% could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%, by 2030, according to the Call for Action by an international group of experts convened by the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ), ahead of the Global Solutions Summit 2022 in Berlin.
Press release:
European Union’s ‘Digital Market Act’ is good, but for online users – it’s not good enough
“The Digital Market Act definitely places some constraints on how some of these tech giants can use consumers’ personal data, but in terms of giving them control over their own personal information, it comes up short,” said Dr Paul Twomey, one of the lead authors of a report entitled Empowering Digital Citizens.
Policy Advice
Capitalism Recoupled
This paper examines major forces that have decoupled economic and business prosperity from social prosperity and explores how recoupling can be promoted. Economists have specified well-known conditions under which free-market enterprise with shareholder value maximization is efficient.
D. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative),
C. Kelly (PwC)
The Socioeconomics of Pandemics Policy
To encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, policymakers at local, national and global levels will need to encourage people around the world to cooperate globally in tackling global problems, with the aid of two powerful tools that humans throughout history have used to coordinate their efforts: identity-shaping narratives and institutions of multi-level governance. Read more.
D. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative)
Measuring what you treasure: The Recoupling Dashboard
To stop fragmentation among societies and to ensure economic activities are carried out sustainably, the use of GDP as an indicator of prosperity is no longer enough.
D. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative), K. Lima de Miranda (IfW Kiel)
Who we are
The Global Solutions Initiative is a global collaborative enterprise comprised of a network of world-renowned think tanks. It proposes policy responses to major global problems, addressed by the G20, the G7 and other global governance fora.
Our Vision
- To provide research-based policy advice to help governments tackle major global challenges of the G20 and beyond
- To generate proposals for aligning business, civil societies and governments for global problem-solving to address human needs in thriving societies
- To start a world-wide movement that aims to recouple economic, political and environmental prosperity with social prosperity
Our Mission
- To provide an intellectual backbone for the T20 process and thereby for the G20, pursued in the spirit of global citizenship for the recoupling of economic, social, political and environmental prosperity.
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