1993-2000 and 2002-2005, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). 2000-2001, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway. 2005-2013, successively Deputy Minister of Defence, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minster of Defence, and until October 2013, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway. 2014-16, Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum, Geneva. 2014-17, United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus, facilitating negotiations aiming at reunifying the divided island. 2017-2021, Member of the Norwegian Parliament, Labour spokesperson on Energy, Climate and Environment. 2013-2021, Board member, and since 2019, Chair of the Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. Since 2021, Minister of Climate and Development in Norway. President of the Fifth UN Environment Assembly, which agreed to negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
Business as usual in the global trading system will not help meet the Paris Agreement goals – transport, investment, trade and finance need to transform.
Rwanda and Norway formed the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution by 2040 by working with global and national bodies, business and industry.
In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of International Security: Dr Shirley Ann Jackson, pres...
面对把新科技转化为武器的团体，我们该如何更好的处理这种威胁？在2030年之前，为了在这一问题上做出改变，联合国塞浦路斯问题特别顾问和全球未来国际安全理事会联席主席Espen Barth Eide表示，面对技术进步的“黑暗面”，我们需要广泛的国际合作、各领域专家的协同努力，来共同思考问题的对策。
There is a dark side to technological change, and we need to act now to stop it from becoming a threat to our international security.
History can only tell us only so much. There is a need for fresh thinking about the implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for international security.
Without a concerted effort to properly address current trends, the world is at risk of sleepwalking into a future of widening chaos with growing danger of interstate conflict.
