Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros
Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros, Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum, discusses his recent book, “Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century,” which proffers that the United Nations, which was created out of the ashes of World War 2, and other international organizations must make major structural changes to become more efficient, effective and relevant. Some suggestions include expanding the role of the UN General Assembly’s 193 member states to adopt binding resolutions concerning peace and security and developing a global parliament. He also suggests that existential threats such as income inequality, the Sixth Mass Extinction, nuclear arms proliferation and climate change crises must be seriously dealt with because these problems are accelerating quite rapidly and will cost trillions of dollars more to confront them the longer policymakers and the public do not take aggressive action.
