Transcript 7_Kirton "Harnessing Knowledge for Effective Development

Harnessing Knowledge for Effective
Development Cooperation:
Closing the Global Governance Gaps
John Kirton and Jenilee Guebert
G8 and G20 Research Groups
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
April 21, 2011
Introduction
 Knowledge as science, natural, physical, social
 Development as sustainable development above all
 Climate, food, health as complex adaptive systems
 Gap 1: Global governance as a linear management response
 From Mount Kilimanjaro to the London G20 Summit on climate
 Gap 2: Connecting climate to food to health
The Climate-Health Connection
 Regular recognition by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and scientists behind
 The new ignorance of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change and the conferences and meetings of the parties
 Intermittent recognition by the G8 (e.g., 1997)
 Ignorance from the G20
The G8 and G20 Science Gap:
Few Leaders Wear Lab Coats
 Civil 8, B20 — but science largely left out
 G8 National Academies of Science
 G8’s “University Eight”
 G20 has little (March 24, 2011)
 A G8-G20 network of Canada’s International Research
Development Centre?
 A “Grand Challenges” G8/G20
Accountability
for Rapid Self-Correction and Results
 Creating scientifically sound commitments
 Ensuring effective implementation by governments
 Identifying impacts and results
 Isolating the gaps
 Identifying the causes of the gaps
 Self-correcting quickly (cf. once a year)