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▪▪A strengthening of the global financial safety net through reforms of the IMF that would enable the IMFC, at the request of the managing director, to issue SDRs for the provision of emergency liquidity in times of financial distress. ▪▪A new, structured public-private process aimed at identifying model national labor migration policies around the world. 30 TRENDS | May 2010
International Security and Transnational Threats ▪▪Creation of new international norms regarding the responsibility of states that harbor international terrorists. ▪▪A new international framework to facilitate self-associating mobilization of cooperation to strengthen the resilience of the World Wide Web.
▪▪A series of steps to strengthen particularly the non-military institutional capacity required for the effective prevention of mass atrocities under the Responsibility to Protect framework. ▪▪An international platform to improve the connectivity of networks of risk experts across countries, disciplines, and stakeholders as a means of facilitating a greater degree of proactive cooperation on global challenges. Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance ▪▪A new international process to catalyze water management public-private partnerships in key water-stressed regions of the world, such as South Africa and India. ▪▪The establishment of a new agency partnership model between recipient governments and donors as a means of supporting funding flows and capacity-building for fragile states with weak domestic institutions. ▪▪A global multi-stakeholder partnership to scale the “supply side” commitment to a zero tolerance policy with respect to bribery as a complement to official “demand side” efforts by governments to strengthen policy in this respect. Environment, Energy, and Sustainability ▪▪A suite of public-private, low carbon infrastructure investment funds in each developing country region ready for business by 2013 and able to mobilize up to $75 billion per fund every three years to 2030. ▪▪A global platform for intra-industry cooperation on energy efficiency via the addition of a private sector dimension to the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation at the International Energy Agency, potentially leading to a set of globally accepted minimum energy standards on a limited but critical range of energy intensive industrial and consumer goods. ▪▪Creation of a global standard for the labelling of emission footprints on consumer products, building on work currently underway in the non-governmental organization community.