22 Jan 2021 / 03:52 H.
By Laurie Goering
LONDON, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Addressing interconnected global challenges - from COVID-19 to climate change and inequality - will require rethinking international institutions, leadership and where solutions come from, governance experts said this week.
"The global order is really frayed - it's disintegrating in front of our eyes. That's a real threat to any attempt to sort things out," said Mo Ibrahim, a businessman and philanthropist who has worked to improve governance in Africa.
An increase in nationalistic leaders in powerful countries was making solving the world's problems harder, he and other experts told an online event on global challenges organised by the University of Birmingham's Institute for Global Innovation.