Over the last two years, Earth Security has advised the development of the BMW Foundation Global Tables, which concluded with a high-level 1st Berlin Global Forum. The Global Tables have created a new stakeholder engagement format, providing an intimate, off-the-record, and high-level meeting in isolated places in nature, which seek to connect the industrial and diplomatic interests of Europe and leading emerging economies on critical sustainable development challenges.
The 1st Berlin Global Forum, which took place last week on Friday 13 Nov. brought together heads of state, corporate CEOs and investors and civil society innovators from Europe and emerging markets, in an unprecedented space of dialogue. The forum marks the end of a global process that included strategic meetings in China, Italy, Brazil, Poland and Tanzania.
The keynote address provided by Peter Altmaier, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks in Berlin, marked the high-level political tone. Mr Altmaier represents Chancellor Angela Merkel in the government's response to the refugee agenda.
The publication outlining the forum's strategic topics features an article by Earth Security founder, Alejandro Litovsky on the strategic design of the global program and articles by participants that provide proposals for European governments and industry groups to rethink energy security and cross-border investments, the cooperation with China's trade and investment agenda, and the response of Europe to the refugee crisis, which is seen as one of the critical issues for Europe in the next years.
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