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The report, which was requested by G-20 leaders at their summit in Seoul last November, found that between 2002 and 2007, the shadow banking system increased by $33 trillion, more than doubling in asset size from $27 trillion to $60 trillion.
The summit in Johannesburg can draw the world's attention to these pressing problems.
Even if the summit produces few specific results, it can make a difference if three demands are made of the summiteers:we should insist that the world's politicians recognize the overwhelming scientific evidence that points to the major environmental perils humanity faces;we should press these leaders to invest more public money in basic environmental research and in the development of new technologies to address environmental risks.
In a few days, I will join 300 global leaders in Abu Dhabi for the world’s first vaccine summit – a gathering dedicated to ensuring that all children everywhere have access to vaccines.
The NATO summit in Riga of November 28-29 may be the last chance to pull that country back from the brink.
At the Riga summit, NATO should challenge the EU to take its proper share of responsibility for success in Afghanistan.
NATO’s presidents and prime ministers could simply cross the Baltic Sea from Riga for a half-day Afghanistan summit with the EU in Helsinki.
Even if leaders balk at an extra half-day of meetings to address the most serious threat to NATO’s future, the Riga summit can issue a demand that its own 19 dual members, and the rest of the EU, agree to assume shared responsibility in Afghanistan.
Fortunately, the EU-Ukraine summit on September 9 in Evian, France, provides the perfect opportunity.
His dramatic overture to hold a summit with Trump by May hardly seems to fit the “madman” narrative.
Though it has agreed to halt nuclear and missile tests in the run-up to the summit, it could be using the intervening months to develop related technologies.
Moreover, as long as the summit is in play, North Korea need not fear a US military strike.
At the European Union’s December 9 summit in Brussels, the eurozone countries agreed to establish a closer fiscal union.
Even barring such a nightmare scenario in 2012, the summit sowed the seeds of future conflicts – over the emergence of a “two-speed” Europe and the false economic doctrine guiding the eurozone’s proposed fiscal pact.
On November 2, public-health stakeholders, including representatives of business, civil society, and international aid organizations, gathered in Bali, Indonesia, to lay the groundwork for a global campaign to tackle the looming co-epidemic of TB and diabetes – the first-ever health summit specifically focused on a response to the twin scourge.
The Bali summit highlighted the indispensable opportunity we have to take preemptive action against a looming health-care crisis.
In November 2014, at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Kathmandu, a photograph was taken of Modi reading a brochure, ostentatiously ignoring Sharif as he walked past.
The re-nationalisation of the priorities of the member states became clear at the Berlin summit earlier this year.
Yet this reasonableness was mistaken, as was demonstrated by last week’s European summit in Berlin.
The Berlin summit confirms the general principle that the Presidency of the European Commission is now such a priority that no-one is likely to be considered as a candidate unless he or she has reached the rank of prime minister.
Apart from the unanimous nomination of Prodi, the main achievements of the Berlin summit were a dilution of the reform of farm policy, a dilution of budget reform, and maintenance of the absurd and hypocritical pretence that the first six candidates for membership can expect to be inside the EU by 2002.
During the ill-fated Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, Denmark’s capital city was plastered with slick ads urging the delegates to make a strong deal –paid for by Vestas, the world’s largest windmill producer.
After the DollarNEW YORK – It is symbolic that the recent BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, took place exactly seven decades after the Bretton Woods Conference that created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Of the five African leaders picked at the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to coordinate negotiations, not one was a woman.
Meles Zenawi, who hosted the summit, has ruled Ethiopia for nearly 20 years and has convinced no one outside his circle of cronies that his country's elections have been free and fair.
A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.
Tusk reiterated this position just before the recent informal European Council summit in Bratislava – the first not to include the United Kingdom – declaring that “giving new powers to European institutions is not the desired recipe.”
The discussion and outcome of the Bratislava summit underscored these efforts.
Groups of experts are not uncommon in the UN process, but only rarely does their work rise from the UN’s basement to a summit of the world’s 20 most powerful states.
And next September, California Governor Jerry Brown will host his own summit to galvanize greater action by cities, companies, and other non-state actors.
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