This talk given by Chair of the Global Governance Forum, Augusto Lopez-Claros outlines the core of an award-winning proposal created by the Founders of the Global Governance Forum called, “Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century.” In 2018, Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Dahl and Maja Groff were awarded the New Shape Prize for this proposal and out of it the Global Governance Forum was born. ⁠

Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to effectively address the catastrophic risks facing humanity beyond national control. The authors suggest that the solution is to extend to the international level the same principles of sensible governance that exist in well-governed national systems: rule of law, legislation in the common interest, an executive branch to implement such legislation, and courts to enforce it. The best protection is unified collective action, based on shared values and respect for diversity, to implement widely accepted international principles to advance universal human prosperity and well-being.