The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how the interconnectedness of our global systems can turn local crises into worldwide emergencies. Rising inequality, a hugely complex global financial system, increasing digitalisation, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity all increase the risk of systemic failures, according to the OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative. Before the Covid-19 crisis the president chose to travel around the country by train in order to reduce his carbon footprint. The conference will include discussions on how countries are responding to the current pandemic and how prepared we are to confront global emergencies in the future. This conference is an important contribution to changing the global order economically, socially, politically, and environmentally because we are all in this together.

Source: Irish Examiner October 08, 2020 05:55 UTC