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Global Challenges
From Problems to Solutions: Meeting Today’s Global Challenges
To meet today’s most pressing global challenges there is an urgent need for public, private and social institutions to restore trust in their roles and mandates. To do so, actors must establish effective and sustainable multi-sector partnerships against corruption with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. All combined, transparency and accountability measures can be set, empowering citizens with the tools needed to curb corruption and strengthen our capacity to tackle pressing global challenges.
During the four days of the Conference, global experts from all sectors and regions of the world will engage in frank and solution-oriented debates to address the global challenges and a wide range of cross-cutting issues. More than 40 workshop and plenary sessions will be structured around the four global challenges:
Restoring Trust for Peace and Security
Social injustice, lack of livelihood security, corruption in security and justice institutions and the resulting lack of trust all correspond with the power and impact of illegal networks worldwide. The insecurity caused by illegal networks destabilises social, economic and political orders worldwide, while individuals, especially the most vulnerable, bear the biggest cost – in many cases with their own lives. At the same time, the despair that comes from a lack of economic and social rights often leads to the proliferation of such networks. The increasing dynamism of these networks presents great challenges to domestic and international peace and security.
This stream will include strategic discussions about solutions to overcome the causes and consequences of corruption and distrust in security and justice institutions as well as recommendations and partnerships to strengthen the fight against illegal networks, social injustice and human insecurity. Priority topics under this stream would include but are not limited to the following issues (working titles):
• State capture and policy capture, corruption in political finance
• Reversing the effects of weak institutions, nepotism and cronyism
• Corruption in justice and security institutions: human rights abuses and impunity
• Tax havens, money laundering and illicit money flows
• Asset recovery and international justice
• Corruption as a facilitator of terrorism
• Organised crime; illegal trafficking (human, drugs, arms) and slave labour
• Corruption, illegal networks and their links to aid and assistance during and after conflict and crisis situations
• Corruption and gender issues
Fuelling Transparency and Accountability in the Natural Resources and Energy Markets
Public and private extractive industries and their related markets (forestry, water, land, fisheries, mining, oil, gas and particularly the energy market) are highly prone to corruption. Given the amount of money and interests involved, corruption in these sectors often determines the fate of democratic institutions, having detrimental impact on the environment and the lives of millions around the world.
This stream will feature discussions about emerging corruption challenges within these markets and highlight successful strategies and practices based upon coordinated multi-sector anti-corruption engagement. The priority topics under this stream would include but are not limited to the following issues (working titles):
• Corruption trends in the natural resources and energy markets
• The human and environmental cost of corruption in extraction, management and commerce of natural resources
• Strategies for sustainable and transparent extraction and for the preservation of natural resources
• Transparency and good governance in land management
• Extractive industries transparency and accountability:
• reserves and market manipulation
• bribery and collusion in contracting processes
• revenue disclosure and management
• compliance to international regulation
• Policy capture, transparency in government budgeting and implementation processes
Climate Governance: Ensuring a Collective Commitment
The effects of climate change are already being felt all around the world, and without a collective commitment for greater climate justice, the situation is only going to get worse. The poor, particularly in the developing countries are most vulnerable. The outcome of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15) and its implementation translate into one of the most complex and costly governance challenges in the global development arena.
Without effective monitoring, corruption will significantly undermine climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives, thus thwarting the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development agendas – the fundamental goals of the climate and related environmental agreements.
This stream will discuss the strategies and recommendations to reduce corruption risks and to increase accountability and transparency in “climate governance” frameworks looking into a global, regional and national perspective. Priority topics under this stream will include:
• Strategies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and multilateral funding and insurance schemes.
• Adaptation strategies: climate-proofing infrastructures, funds to build local resilience, effective delivery of relief and aid for droughts, floods, food scarcity and mass migration.
• Precautionary and mitigation strategies: Construction projects, green branding, carbon trading corruption hotspots, illegal logging and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
Strengthening Global Action for an Accountable Corporate World
The ongoing global crisis has been a crisis of trust; it is testimony to the dangers of poor accountability and a lack of transparency at the core of the most advanced economies. The increasing competition that results from the global slowdown may also fuel corruption, eroding public confidence in the business world and further impacting populations in developed and developing countries.
In that context, it is more urgent than ever to take stock of the progress accomplished in the prevention of business-linked corruption, at governmental and corporate levels, and to develop a holistic approach in the fight for a more transparent economy. Priority topics under this stream will include:
• Transparency and accountability in bail outs, rescue and stimulus packages: 24 months into the crisis
• G20 action plan: does global governance lead to concrete reforms?
• Reforms in executive compensation: too little, too late or a distraction in the first place?
• Voluntary corporate programmes versus legal enforcement
• Can anti-bribery programmes be verified by third-parties?
• The virtues of reporting on anti-corruption programmes – the next piece of the integrity puzzle?
• Financial crime and tax havens, money laundering and illicit financial flows: virtualised corruption beyond controls?
• Bringing transparency and accountability into vulture funds
• Privatisations and public-private partnerships: development opportunities or avenues for corruption?
• Ethical and socially responsible investment: a driver for anti-corruption and integrity or window-dressing?
• Out of sight, out of compliance? Confronting corruption in the supply chain:
To produce solutions and recommendations to the global challenges and achieve the conference objectives, the conference sessions will discuss and seek answers to key cross-cutting questions, grouped under three strategic clusters.
