At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, IDOS joined hands with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) to organise a closed-door session on “nourishing trust” in multilateral negotiations.
Together with co-creators from Asia, Africa and both South and North America, Dr Stephan Klingebiel and Dr Sebastian Haug had supported the design of a closed-door session facilitated by UNSSC. Participants included current and former government ministers, UN leaders, senior-level bureaucrats, academics as well as representatives from civil society and the private sector.
Throughout 100 minutes of fast-paced interactive engagement, participants not only got to know each other’s positions on some of the issues that currently undermine multilateral trust. In small groups, they also identified key fault lines and steps to overcome hurdles. Together, they highlighted the need for atypical coalitions, a differentiation of roles and responsibilities in line with unequal global structures, and an investment in the trustworthiness of both individual states and international institutions. In collaboration with BMZ and UNSSC, IDOS is set to build on insights from the Hamburg session to deepen collaboration with its partners as part of a commitment to co-shape sustainable futures.
The Hamburg Sustainability Conference took place from 7 to 8 October 2024. It brought together delegates from different parts of the world as well as representatives from public and private sectors to discuss sustainability challenges and ways to address them.