It is a common practice today to speak about the demise of the liberal world order. Threats to multilateralism, free trade and democratic values seem to arise from everywhere; both through a growing assertiveness of authoritarian regimes, but also from within liberal democracies.
Many observers have expressed frustration with the G20’s growing ineffectiveness after its stellar role in averting a global financial meltdown and deep recession following the 2008 crisis. Its subsequent performance has never quite matched up to that as the body traversed from crisis to recovery mode. Consensus and cooperation has eluded it more often than not since, in part because of shift in focus to more complex, underlying economic issues.
The G20 summit in Osaka was perhaps most notable for the breakdowns that did not occur. Leaders have eventually agreed on a joint communiqué and endorsed consensual language on trade and many other issues. The nineteen members who had reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement in Hamburg and Buenos Aires did so again.…
The Group of Twenty (G20) Osaka Summit was relatively successfully, with progress on important policy issues, despite the awkward compromises on climate and trade. It might be remembered for its striking similarities with the preceding Buenos Aires G20 Summit. The unusually short, seven-month gap between the two summits left the core agenda largely unchanged, partly reflecting the broad continuities in world politics.
Am 25. Juni 2019 stellte die Bonner Allianz für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung vor Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft ihr gemeinsames Großprojekt in Bonn vor: den Innovations-Campus Bonn (ICB). Der Innovations-Campus Bonn soll zu einer integrativen Plattform für die gesamtgesellschaftliche Arbeit an einer nachhaltigen Zukunft werden. In der Bonner Allianz für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung engagieren sich…
