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Here's the Bank's president Jim Kim announcing 15 billion dollars onstage at Global Citizen, and Prime Minister Modi of India affirmed his commitment to put a toilet in every household and school across India by 2019.
Global citizens encouraged by the late-night host Stephen Colbert launched a Twitter invasion on Norway.
Global citizens together with Rotarians called on the Canadian, UK, and Australian governments to boost their investment into polio eradication.
See, you might be thinking to yourself, how can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues?
We live in a time that favors the global citizen, in an age where every single voice can be heard.
The concept of global citizenship, self-evident in its logic but until now impractical in many ways, has coincided with this particular moment in which we are privileged to live.
We, as global citizens, now have a unique opportunity to accelerate large-scale positive change around the world.
So in the months and years ahead, global citizens will hold world leaders accountable to ensure that the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development are tracked and implemented.
Global citizens will partner with the world's leading NGOs to end diseases like polio and malaria.
Global citizens will sign up in every corner of this globe, increasing the frequency, quality and impact of their actions.
Global citizens who stand together, who ask the question "Why?," who reject the naysayers, and embrace the amazing possibilities of the world we share.
I'm a global citizen.
And in Paris, the IPCC released its study confirming man's impact on global warming.
And this lack of global coverage is all the more disturbing when we see where people go for news.
Similarly, a study in e-content showed that much of global news from U.S. news creators is recycled stories from the AP wire services and Reuters, and don't put things into a context that people can understand their connection to it.
In recent years, Americans who say they closely follow global news most of the time grew to over 50 percent.
For many different reasons, but primarily because of the deeply entrenched divide between the global North and the global South.
So now, six months after this failure, I was called in to assume the responsibility of the global climate change negotiations.
The global mood on climate change was in the trash can.
No one believed that a global agreement could ever be possible.
On my first press conference, a journalist asked, "Um, Ms. Figueres, do you think that a global agreement is ever going to be possible?"
And when we asked countries to begin to identify how they could contribute to global efforts but based on their national interest, 189 countries out of 195, 189 countries sent their comprehensive climate change plans, based on their national interest, concurrent with their priorities, consistent with their national sustainable development plans.
By injecting transformational optimism that allowed us to go from confrontation to collaboration, that allowed us to understand that national and local interests are not necessarily at odds with global needs, and that if we understand that, we can bring them together and we can merge them harmoniously.
It's estimated there are trillions of dollars circling the globe in our global economy every single day, yet only four percent of that money is actually in coin or currency.
It's a huge problem, and the reason that this is concerning for all of us as a global economy is this: Dun & Bradstreet found that people spend 12 to 18 percent more when using credit cards over cash.
It's about educating the next generation to make decisions in a world where money is largely an illusion but has very, very real consequences, and the reason it's so important for all of us, as a global society, to do this is this next generation coming up will inherit the global economy that we are handing to them, and we will precariously place it on their shoulders.
Three years ago, I argued that governments could use the tools deployed to save the financial system to meet other global challenges.
What this shows is that when faced with some global challenges, policy makers are able to act collectively, with urgency, and run the risks of unconventional policies like money printing.
Because climate change is a shared global problem, there are some really compelling reasons why we should be printing that international currency that's issued by the IMF, to fund it.
And it's truly global.
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