Leadership in Global Cooperation: Shaping the World of the Future

As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change, economic recession, and international terrorism, Britain must lead the way in global cooperation to shape a more prosperous and secure future. In the coming months, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will gather countries to forge a new international agreement to combat global warming. Britain is prepared to lead the way by proposing a financial plan to ensure all countries can cut carbon emissions.

We need the same degree of international cooperation to return the world economy to a secure prosperity and to address the global plague of poverty. International cooperation has already shown its effectiveness in restructuring the banks and coordinating a fiscal stimulus, stopping a recession from becoming a depression. The world economy is expected to double in size over the next two decades, creating twice as many opportunities for business, jobs, and exports. Britain must be at the center of this new economy, making the most of the unprecedented opportunities. Retreating from international cooperation would put the global recovery at risk and jeopardize British jobs, growth, and prosperity.

Key Takeaways:

• Britain is prepared to lead the way in proposing a financial plan to ensure all countries can cut carbon emissions in the new international agreement to combat global warming.
• International cooperation has shown its effectiveness in restructuring the banks and coordinating a fiscal stimulus, preventing a recession from becoming a depression.
• The world economy is expected to double in size over the next two decades, creating twice as many opportunities for business, jobs, and exports.
• Britain must be at the center of this new economy, making the most of the unprecedented opportunities.
• Retreating from international cooperation would put the global recovery at risk and jeopardize British jobs, growth, and prosperity.
• A new contract of trust is needed between banks and the societies they serve across the world.
• Measures to mitigate the risks to the economy from financial failure, such as insurance fees or a global financial levy, can only be implemented at a global level.

Statistics:

• Seven of the top dozen figures in al Qaeda have been killed since January 2008, depleting its reserve of experienced leaders and sapping its morale.
• Since the original invasion in 2001, more has been planned and enacted with greater success in the past year to disable al Qaeda.
• 28,000 Pakistan security forces are inside South Waziristan, narrowing the scope for al Qaeda to operate.

Sources:

• Federal News Service, Inc. (2009). Speech by the Prime Minister on Global Cooperation. Federal News Service, Inc.