As world leaders gathered in New York for the 80th United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week (September 21-27, 2025), a noticeable tension hung in the air: growing attacks, financing cuts, and weakened commitments on multilateralism from powerful states and leaders. Yet amid the noise, many Latin American leaders offered a different tone — a firm commitment to […]

Download the Future of International Cooperation Report 2025 here Without bold and decisive action, growing injustice within and among countries threaten global stability and shared progress. Drawing on insights from the Future of International Cooperation Report 2025 (FIC’25), this side event for the Second World Summit for Social Development, titled “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises […]

Editor’s Note: Justin Snyder is a young expert in the Global Governance Innovation Network. This commentary is part of the GGIN’s Next Generation Experts series in an effort to elevate youth research and writing. Justin Snyder’s interest and research center on climate, climate governance, and climate migration By Rebecca Snyder, Research Associate, Global Governance, Justice and […]

Featured here is the T20 South Africa Communiqué Detailed here is the G20 South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration Presented here is the G20 Social Summit 2025 Declaration Through research and collaborative initiatives, the Think Tank 20 (T20) offers intellectual support and drives progress on critical issues like economic inequality, climate change, and sustainable development. Since […]

The Climate Governance Commission, together with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), co-convened a Global Policy Dialogue on “Earth System Governance: Ensuring Human Flourishing in the Anthropocene” on 30 October 2025 at GGGI Headquarters in Seoul. The Dialogue, which included H.E. Keum-sil Kang, Climate Action Ambassador and former Minister of Justice of the Republic of Korea, brought […]

This forum, jointly organised by GISR and Stimson Centre, follows the historic UN speech of Ahmad Al Sharaa, the first by a Syrian head of State in 60 years. It brought together senior officials from Syria’s new administration, regional diplomats, and international policy experts, primarily from the United States, to build further on the earlier […]

The report of the “Global Policy Dialogue 2025: Promoting Climate Finance and Just Transitions in the Lead-Up to COP30” is now available for download in English. The meeting took place on 17 – 18 July 2025 at the Anchieta Palace, seat of the Government of Espírito Santo, in Vitória. It brought together more than 100 high-level participants […]

MENARA is born! We have now tallied all of the votes and the winning name for the Greater MENA research network on regional and global governance innovation is MENARA (Middle East and North Africa Research Advancement). Monday, 8 December at GISR-HBKU (11:45-6:00 pm) – FEATURED HERE IS THE 2025 MENA DIALOGUE REPORT. Without urgent and […]

Bring in the New Year by rewinding and enjoying some memorable GGIN moments in 2025, from major reports, policy briefs, global policy dialogues, and annual gatherings to the T20 Summit, World Social Summit, COP30, and continued follow-up to the Pact for the Future. Here’s a 2025 gift-wrapped snapshot from our network of global governance innovators. Pact Innovation Forum The […]