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Implementing the SDGs

G20 Support for SDGs and Development Cooperation What can the G20 do to kick-start the “10 years of action” to achieve the SDGs? While progress is made in many places to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to align economic, social and environmental progress globally; the overall speed and level … Read more

Rebuilding Macroeconomics after the Pandemic

Global Tables by Partners Recoupling: Strategies and Visions Rebuilding Macroeconomics after the Pandemic Curated and produced by ESRC’s Rebuilding Macroeconomics Financial Crisis, nationalism and COVID-19 are all socio-economic pandemics in the last decade. Each one starts in a small corner of our world, then spreads across continents in a very … Read more

Circular carbon economy

Climate Change and Environment What can the G20 do to promote a circular carbon economy? It is increasingly clear that to stay within the limits agreed with the Paris Agreement, all possible climate mitigation options and pathways must be seriously considered. The need to substantially reduce CO2 emissions, including in … Read more

YGC Recoupling Awards

YGC Projects & Awards 2022-2025 With the “Young Global Changers Recoupling Awards” the Global Solutions Initiative aims to identify and recognize young changemakers from all over the world who contribute actively towards a better alignment – a “recoupling” – of economic prosperity with environmental sustainability and the needs and demands of societies, communities and individuals. … Read more

Fostering sustainable infrastructure

Infrastructure Investment and Financing What can the G20 do to foster sustainable infrastructure? Improving the wellbeing of billions of people globally depends on building more and better infrastructure, including for transportation, for access to energy and sanitation. This infrastructure build-up must be sustainable, as otherwise, it can have detrimental effects … Read more

New Office for Global Risk Preparedness

Global Tables by Partners Policy Responses to COVID-19 Decision-Making for Governments and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Why we need a new Office for Global Risk Preparedness Curated and produced by CRUISSE Network and the UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty Policy-making is best understood as enacted in contexts of … Read more

COVID-19 and the Reinforced Case for Sustainable Infrastructure Development

Global Tables by Partners Infrastructure Investment and Financing COVID-19 & the Reinforced Case for Sustainable Infrastructure Development: Mobilizing Infrastructure Investments as Catalysts for Net Zero & SDG Delivery Curated and produced by The Solutions Lab – Scaling for Sustainable Infrastructure, a joint initiative by GIZ and the Global Solutions Initiative … Read more

David Kaczan

David Kaczan is a Senior Economist at the World Bank, based in the Jakarta Office. He works on investment operations and research in the Bank’s Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice. He is an environmental and resource economist by training, and applies economic principles and empirical methods to … Read more

COVID-19 and the financial systems

International Financial Architecture What can the G20 and Central Banks do to deal with monetary and financial challenges in context of the COVID-19 crisis while preparing the way to a new normal in monetary policy? The discussion about ending the exceptional monetary and financial measures and policy strategies adopted after … Read more

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