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Harnessing Knowledge for Effective Development Cooperation: Closing the Global Governance Gaps

Harnessing Knowledge for Effective Development Cooperation: Closing the Global Governance Gaps. John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert G8 and G20 Research Groups Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto April 21, 2011. Introduction. Knowledge as science, natural, physical, social

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Harnessing Knowledge for Effective Development Cooperation: Closing the Global Governance Gaps

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  1. Harnessing Knowledge for Effective Development Cooperation: Closing the Global Governance Gaps John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert G8 and G20 Research Groups Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto April 21, 2011

  2. Introduction • Knowledge as science, natural, physical, social • Development as sustainable development above all • Climate, food, health as complex adaptive systems • Gap 1: Global governance as a linear management response • From Mount Kilimanjaro to the London G20 Summit on climate • Gap 2: Connecting climate to food to health

  3. The Climate-Health Connection • Regular recognition by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and scientists behind • The new ignorance of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the conferences and meetings of the parties • Intermittent recognition by the G8 (e.g., 1997) • Ignorance from the G20

  4. The G8 and G20 Science Gap:Few Leaders Wear Lab Coats • Civil 8, B20 — but science largely left out • G8 National Academies of Science • G8’s “University Eight” • G20 has little (March 24, 2011) • A G8-G20 network of Canada’s International Research Development Centre? • A “Grand Challenges” G8/G20

  5. Accountability for Rapid Self-Correction and Results • Creating scientifically sound commitments • Ensuring effective implementation by governments • Identifying impacts and results • Isolating the gaps • Identifying the causes of the gaps • Self-correcting quickly (cf. once a year)

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