GIN Ethos:
• Engage empathy as Global Citizens.
• Make our work effective and sustainable.
• Answer our call to action as leaders of today.
• Continually inspire and foster community empowerment.
• Value life-long learning as a means to create positive change.
• Innovate socio-environmental awareness, expression and action.
GIN Conferences often focus on the following 20 Issues, inspired by the book High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them.
Sharing Our Humanity:
• Massive step-up in the fight against poverty
• Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism
• Education for all
• Social and racial justice
• Global infectious diseases
• Digital divide
Sharing Our Planet:
• Natural disaster prevention and mitigation
• Global warming
• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses
• Fisheries depletion
• Deforestation
• Water deficits
• Maritime safety and pollution
Sharing Our Rule Book:
• Reinventing taxation for the twenty-first century
• Biotechnology rules
• Global financial architecture
• Illegal drugs
• Trade, investment, and competition rules
• Intellectual property rights
• E-commerce rules
• International labor and migration rules