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Senior Officials, Global Experts Outline T7 Japan Roadmap for Fostering Urgent G7 Policy Breakthroughs

19 December 2022

The Think7 (T7) roadmap for helping Group of 7 (G7) countries and partners confront unfolding global challenges during Japan’s 2023 G7 presidency was discussed in the virtual T7 Japan inception conference hosted by ADBI on 12 December. Japan’s G7 Sous-Sherpa Kazuhiko Nakamura of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed T7’s importance for transmitting research-based policy ideas to the

Call for T7 Policy Brief Abstracts to Promote Global Action During G7 Japan 2023

25 November 2022

Submit T7 Policy Brief Abstract (9 January 2023 submission deadline) Tokyo, Japan –Think7 (T7), the Group of 7’s (G7) official think tank engagement group, is seeking policy brief abstracts from experts worldwide – including both G7 and non-G7 countries – to promote research-based solutions to unfolding global challenges during Japan’s 2023 G7 presidency and beyond. T7 Japan task force

ADBI Dean Opens T7 Japan, Details G7-Global South Focus

4 November 2022

Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan – Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Dean Tetsushi Sonobe described the outlook for ADBI’s hosting of Think7 (T7), the Group of 7’s (G7) official think tank engagement group, during a T7 handover webinar. The event marked the transfer of the T7 host role to ADBI as part of Japan’s 2023

Podcast: T7 and its Support for G7-Global South Cooperation Explained

7 July 2022

In this podcast, ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe, Co-Chair of the T7 Task Force on Sustainable Economic Recovery, and ADBI’s John Beirne and Dina Azhgaliyeva discuss the role and future of the T7. This includes its capacity to support partnership between the G7 and emerging economies in Asia and the Pacific, and globally, and the implications

G7: reaching out to the non-aligned, a strategic move, but what credibility? – a commentary by Sébastian Treyer, IDDRI

7 July 2022

The G7 summit (June 26-28, Elmau), under the German presidency, was of major importance at a time when global financial and economic stability is being severely undermined by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine. This is all the more important as the G20 is politically blocked, even though it

The Co-Chairs of the Think7 Engagement Group on the decisions of the G7 Summit

28 June 2022

Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability, IDOS (formerly German Development Institute, DIE), and Prof. Dr. Dennis J. Snower, President of the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI) assess the results of the G7 Summit in Elmau as follows: Prof. Dr. Dennis J. Snower: “In Elmau, the G7 is sending a

Experts call on the G7 to adopt new conception and measures of prosperity

27 June 2022

Renowned experts from all G7 countries and around the world launch a Call for Action to the G7 at the 2022 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany. The Call urges the G7 under the German G7 Presidency to show leadership in rethinking progress and adopting new measures of prosperity that move beyond GDP as a key

Press release: Think7: G7 faces landmark decisions for the well-being of humanity

25 June 2022

In addition to more ambitious climate protection, the major industrialized countries must do more to combat the global food and debt crisis and make healthcare systems more resilient worldwide. So far, the G7 has failed to protect its citizens from digital corporations and data abuse. Moreover, there is still a lack of common standards to

Think7 communiqué handed over to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

25 May 2022

A high-level delegation led by Dennis Snower (Global Solutions Initiative, GSI) and Anna-Katharina Hornidge (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)) handed over the Think7 Communiqé to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as chair of the G7, on May 25. The communiqué summarizes about 70 papers of the Think7, in which policy recommendations