Nations. United.
Multilateral organizations and international governance forums, particularly the United Nations, are crucial in addressing global challenges and fostering international cooperation.
They play a vital role in managing global risk, such as pandemics, conflict and insecurity, and natural disasters. They facilitate coordinated responses and support countries fulfill their responsibilities to manage global risk and disasters.
In an interconnected world facing complex risk, advocacy at the multilateral level can improve disaster risk management – from local to global disasters – and develop new norms for countries to follow in their own national policy.
The Pact for the Future is a potentially transformational international agreement outlining how the United Nations intends to reshape and reform itself for future challenges. Most relevant for global catastrophic risk, it recognizes “the need for a more coherent, coordinated and multidimensional international response to complex global shocks.”
In the most current version of the Pact, the UN proposes to convene and operationalize “emergency platforms,” as a coordination mechanism for international response to future complex global shocks. In time, we believe the “emergency platforms” can enhance the capabilities of the international system for response to complex global shocks, including those from global catastrophes.
The emergency platforms concept is being advocated for by the UN Secretary-General as part of his “Our Common Agenda,” but it continues to be revised throughout the negotiation process. Global Shield has been educating other influential civil society groups about the importance of the UN adopting the emergency platforms proposal, and we are developing critical support for it as it moves through the member state negotiation process.
Existential and global catastrophic risk is appearing as a major consideration in a range of new surveys, polls, analyses, and reports on global risk. These reports are being conducted by a wide range of governmental and non-government organizations, including the UN, which will release a Global Risk Report in September 2024.
Global Shield believes that global risk reports, especially the UN Global Risk Report, must consider the growing global catastrophic risk from all hazards. Policymakers must acknowledge and understand the insights from these reports, compare the results to their own risk and capability assessments, and resolve critical policy gaps.
As a result, Global Shield is taking a number of steps over 2024, including convening a diverse group of organizations that produce these risk reports, developing policy reports on how to translate global risk reports into action, and conducting public and policy engagement around the integration of global catastrophic risk into the “global risk” report ecosystem.
Global Shield is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, fiscally sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE). Our organization’s growth and international outreach will depend on continued support from donors, and we appreciate any support you can provide.
Privacy Policy | Branding & Website by Yes Creative | © Global Shield 2024
