January 15, 2014
The changing climate and its consequences is just one problem that both residents of New York and of New Delhi share. There are many more: international financial instability, food price volatility, growing microbial resistance to drugs, biodiversity losses. On these issues, the rich may have a bigger boat but they face the same storms as the poor.
The management of global public goods is a huge challenge – in which, ironically, the absence of organized “power” at the international level, i.e. at the level of what is called global governance, is part of the problem.