Published GG2020 reports
Beyond a Global Deal – A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance
In this report, the GG2020 working group on climate change lays out its recommendations for the future of global climate governance. The fellows propose a governance framework that utilizes bottom-up approaches to climate protection in the absence of a global deal.
Beyond the Numbers – Strategies for Global Nuclear
The GG2020 working group on nuclear governance recommends approaches to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament that qualify success as more than simply the number of nuclear weapons or nuclear states.
Facing the Challenges - Three Scenarios for Global Economic Governance in 2020
The GG2020 working group on global economic governance discusses three scenarios that depict global economic interaction in the year 2020, providing decision makers with a platform for asking better questions.
Global Governance 2020 - Designing the Future of International Institutions
Berlin - Shanghai - Washington D. C.
"Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic," affirmed US President Barack Obama when speaking in Berlin in the summer of 2008. To turn this vision into reality, Global Governance 2020 (GG2020) seeks to forge a strong and lasting strategic community of young leaders from China, Germany, and the United States. The program aimed to connect those who have the ambition and imagination to shape the future of international institutions.
In the course of three dialogue sessions in Berlin, Shanghai, and Washington D.C. between January 2010 and January 2011, twenty-four GG2020 fellows, eight each from China, Germany and the US, developed scenarios for the future of international institutions in the areas of nuclear non-proliferation, climate change, economic governance. They drew on their diversity of backgrounds and experiences and explored new ways of effective global problem-solving.
With the help of innovative approaches, from trend analysis and scenario planning to institutional design, GG2020 fellows jointly explored possible paths of development, discussed fundamental normative questions and ultimately created scenarios for the role and shape of international institutions for the year 2020. GG2020 provided a framework for thinking about the leadership skills that are necessary to turn desirable scenarios into reality. The twenty-four GG2020 fellows, selected from a highly competitive pool by the GG2020 Steering Committee of senior policymakers and academics, will disseminate their results through op-eds, policy papers, high-profile presentations and the GG2020 website.
The GG2020 program was jointly organized by the Global Public Policy Institute, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Fudan University, the Hertie School of Governance, the Brookings Institution and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The GG2020 fellows were also supported by a private sector expert on trend analysis and scenario planning to produce innovative results.
The GG2020 program was generously supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Transatlantic Program of the German Government (ERP Grant administered by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology).
The Global Public Policy Institute and the project partners are currently preparing a second installment of the program, Global Governance 2022, which will be launched in early 2012.
