Can the Pact for the Future Tackle Rising Human Insecurity?

The Summit of the Future represents both a milestone and another step in the long journey toward achieving human security for all

Originally published in PassBlue

Since the release of the 1993 Human Development Report, the powerful notion of human security has evolved, incorporating principles of justice while elevating nature and technology’s roles in protecting and enriching human life. Still, the United Nations report’s original insight from more than three decades ago still holds true: secure nations require a sense of security, well-being and belonging among their citizens too.

But with only 15 percent of the Sustainable Development Goals on track to be met by 2030, a record 110 million of forced displaced persons last year and hundreds of millions of people facing extreme poverty worldwide, human security is out of reach for far too many. Against this challenging backdrop — including an estimated annual SDG financing gap of $2.5 to $4 trillion â€” global economic governance needs outside-the-box ideas supporting broad-based greener development.

Introduced by Moussa Mara, the prime minister of Mali and member of the Club de Madrid, the Stimson Center’s new Global Governance Innovation Report 2024 (GGIR’24) examines these and related themes.

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