Multilateral Governance for Addressing Global Challenges

created on 08 Dec 2009

The OECD is currently carrying out a project on „New Approaches and Governance Mechanisms for Multilateral Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation to Address Global Challenges". This project was commissioned by the OECD’s CSTP (Science and Technology Policy Committee) and is carried out by a group of experts. Austria is participating in this multilateral project, which is due to be completed in late 2012.

The rationale behind the project is the fact that mankind is currently facing a number of severe global challenges, such as climate change, food and energy security, or (re-)emerging infectious diseases, which can only be dealt with on a multilateral or global level, since both the originating factors of the challenges and their consequences are global in nature. Institutional coordination and collective action are therefore required, in order to efficiently bundle the necessary resources. Science, technology and innovation (STI) play an important role in most strategic responses to global challenges. This coordination and regulation of international STI cooperation can be based on very different settings of global governance. The current project is looking into these different settings and mechanisms. It is also trying to identify the successful strategic responses and to describe their characteristics. The ultimate aim of the project is to develop policy conclusions in form of OECD guidelines and possibly best practices on the issue of multilateral governance for addressing global challenges.

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