Today's most pressing challenges ' as well as the future's most promising opportunities ' are not bound by borders. Strengthening our economies, improving our collective security, addressing climate change, and unlocking the benefits of frontier technologies all depend on cooperative approaches. Yet, the world is at risk of drifting towards a perilous state in which collaborative agendas are replaced by confrontational mindsets. A more contentious geopolitical climate is of such concern that in September 2023, at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned 'Global challenges are mounting. And we seem incapable of coming together to respond.' At the G20 Summit last December, India made it a priority to include representation from the Global South in the dialogue and steered leaders of the world's largest economies to agreement on a joint declaration on climate financing, global debt, and other issues ' this despite...
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