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For a number of countries in this part of the world, having pipelines is the ticket to becoming part of the global economy and for having some meaning besides the borders that they are not loyal to themselves.
The task of our time, one of the great tasks of our time, is to build a global society, as I said, where people can live together in peace.
As a surgeon, this is a global issue that bothers me.
NHH: We're also seeing the use of this technology at a global scale, and one of the most heartwarming stories I can recall is from the town of Trujillo in the north of Lima in Peru, where this technology was used to support the provision of cleft lip and palate surgery to children, children from poor backgrounds who didn't have access to health insurance.
In a world where there are more mobile devices than there are human beings, it truly has a global reach.
My team and I are growing our global footprint, and we're starting to see the potential of this technology.
And when you think that 80 percent of global trade in food now is controlled by just five multinational corporations, it's a grim picture.
We seem to have totally forgotten that there is such a thing as global commons: air, water, forests and biodiversity.
Now, it is modern science that reminds us how vital the global commons are.
In 2009, a group of scientists proposed how to assess the health of the global commons.
I can tell you one thing for sure: during these 30 years, the notion of the global commons never crossed my mind.
I didn't have a single conversation about the global commons with my colleagues.
This tells me that the notion of the global commons was not really entering into the big money decisions like state budgets or investment plans.
And I'm wondering, why do we have this sheer ignorance about the global commons, including me, myself?
The global commons had still enough capacity to take the punches we gave them.
If we don't act on them, we will be losing the global commons.
Now is the time we start managing the global commons as our parents or our grandparents managed their local commons.
The first thing we need to do is to simply recognize that we do have the global commons and they are very, very important.
We need to recreate the social contract of the fishing villages on the global scale.
And all of those four systems are putting enormous pressure on the global commons, and it's also very difficult to flip them.
Coalitions of stakeholders are now coming together to try to transform the food system with one shared goal: how to produce enough healthy food for everyone, at the same time, to try to cut, to sharply reduce, the footprint from the food system on the global commons.
The global demand for palm oil is just increasing.
I met global food companies, financial institutions and local government officials.
In fact, what they are trying to do is to create a new kind of social contract to manage the global commons.
At GEF, Global Environment Facility, we have now a new strategy, and we put the global commons at its center.
If everybody stays on the sidelines, waiting for others to step in, the global commons will continue to deteriorate, and everybody will be much worse off.
So, I invite all of you to embrace the global commons.
Please do remember that global commons do exist and are waiting for your stewardship.
The global commons must be kept within their safe operating space, and we can only do it together.
So to see those symbols representing in his work a celebration of the global culture, a critic of the global urban culture, is no surprise, but really at the heart of his work is his desire of a nuanced representation.
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