Location: Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Date: 26 - 27 February, 2006
Hosted by: Princeton University

Context: The purpose of this meeting was to explore potential future international arrangements to address the financing of "global public goods (GPGs)". International cooperation on financing global public goods is beset by a "twin deficit": 1) the implementation deficit, that is, the disjuncture between the negotiations side and the operations side of international cooperation (between the forging and the implementation of agreements); and 2) the participation deficit, which at present keeps key-state and non state-actors away from both the negotiating table and the operational implementation of international cooperation. The meeting focused on possible elements of a package deal, mindful that we must focus on the proposals that can be implemented with "flexible geometry" (not Tobin Tax - nor SDRs).

Papers

Keith Bezanson		Possible elements of a 2006 L 20 Communiqué on the Financing of Global Public Goods
Anthony Clunies-Ross		A Suggested first L20 package for 2006-07
Björn Gillsäterd		L20 Communiqué on Financing Global Public Goods
J. Andrew Hoerner		Consensus-Building Approaches to Financing Global Public Goods
John W. Sewell and Kristin Wenderlich		Financing Critical Global Needs: A Draft L20 Communique
Janel Smith		Financing the Delivery of Global Peace through an L20? Considerations for an initial L20 meeting on financing Global Public Goods

Backgrounders

Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição

The L-20 an Important Beginning of a New Era of International Cooperation?