Hosted by Vale, the Foundation’s major global meeting for the year will take place in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest in Carajás, Brazil, from 12-15 August 2025.
The Carajás Roundtable is the centrepiece of our Global Project, ‘Shaping Global Governance, Climate and Nature,’ and builds on the momentum established at its launch in Rome 2024, where ‘business with purpose’ was recognised as a critical pillar in shaping and achieving global climate and nature goals.
In Australia, where our headquarters is based, the Foundation convenes ongoing roundtable discussions that help to shape Australia’s energy transition in a global context, bringing together industry leaders, national and international experts, policy-makers and representatives of society.
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I am pleased to join you for this new edition of the Rome Roundtable of the Global Foundation. Inspired by the Foundation’s motto – “Together we strive for the common good” – you have gathered to discern just ways of attaining a globalisation that is “cooperative”, and thus positive, as opposed to the globalisation of indifference. You seek to ensure that the global community, shaped by institutions, agencies, and representatives of civil society, can effectively achieve international goals and obligations that have been solemnly declared and assumed, such as those of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Foundation clearly helps to stir the debate, to propose ideas, to catalyse proposals, and to help in the process of all our debates across global institutions. I know that I can call on [you], my Australian colleagues, when we need new ideas, when we need energy, and when we need a bit of that sun, which helps you see the light, perhaps a little better than most…
I have been acquainted with the Global Foundation for some time and am happy to see that they are still driving the idea that global problems, including global governance, can be talked about and solved. Organisations like the Global Foundation have a mission that is clearer today than a decade ago. They are the translators of global problems into something citizens understand. This knowledge brings about awareness which inspires mobilisation and ultimately, political action. Greater awareness and greater mobility require civil society, which is better equipped at bridging the gap between knowledge and action.
Thanks for your great contribution. I would like to say that you are the first to support the establishment of this Bank with your foresight and insight. Looking forward to working with you in the days and years to come.
Thank you for making this space available for many leaders that I can see on screen and that I have great respect for… The assessment of the State of the World Report by the Global Foundation was really spot on – it was a world that for all of us was filled with our inability to respond to major catastrophes.
I warmly remember my participation in the Foundation’s inaugural Rome Roundtable meeting, in 2016. It is great to hear about the work you have been doing on global sustainability issues, which is a true challenge of our times. I wish you and the Foundation all the best for your fifth Rome Roundtable taking place in June and applaud your plans for further collaborative work in this area. These kind of dialogues, reaching across countries and drawing in perspectives from many walks of life, are increasingly important if we are to deal with the complex global challenges facing us as a global community.
What the Global Foundation is delivering is outstanding. It’s a space where different angles, different views, different journeys, different experiences meet to discuss in a safe place.
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