With the Mounting Climate Crisis, Our Global Trade Inter-Dependency is Vital

s I was jogging today, the image of Jacques Diouf fasting at the opening of the Rome Food Summit came to mind. I could not help but think about the thousands who die of hunger every day. The fresh air of the early morning acutely brought to my mind the huge number of global challenges facing us.

At the end of 2009, a year marked by the first ever global crisis, we are confronted with the need to find a multilateral compromise to fight climate change. With the need to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation. With the need to achieve closure of the Doha Round. And with the food crisis ... Each a formidable challenge in its own right. Each of them leads us back to the essential question: to what extent is each one of us ready to pay for protecting and preserving global public goods?

Pascal Lamy

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