IFG Programs

IFG PROGRAMS

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CLIMATE CHANGE

THE “COPENHAGEN CONVENINGS” OF CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS TO PRESS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TOWARD POSITIVE ACTIONS

The IFG has emerged as a key convener of leading global researchers and campaigners coming from both the North and the Global South, creating a unique space for ongoing strategic dialogue on the difficult issues that will be essential to concluding a new global climate deal by the end of 2009 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark. Throughout 2009 and into 2010, IFG is hosting a series of “Copenhagen Convenings.” They are characterized by a flexible, rolling agenda that will adapt to the state of play in UNFCCC talks, but with the overall strategic objective of recasting global economic governance under climate equity imperatives by converging the distinct campaign capacities of civil society’s key global networks on climate, trade, and finance.

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FALSE SOLUTIONS

PUBLICATIONS SERIES

IFG has become a prominent convener, publisher and voice in identifying and de-legitimizing “false solutions” to climate change and global resource depletions while also naming and presenting viable clean, safe and economically sound alternatives.

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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS

ACTUALIZATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (UNDRIP)

The IFG has played a leading role in bringing indigenous issues into prominence within a number of new arenas while educating and recruiting new allies. In this regard, indigenous leaders who helped lead the international campaign to pass the new United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) recently mandated IFG to establish a new network to encourage, support, and coordinate efforts by non-indigenous ally organizations to help implement UNDRIP.

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TRADE & FINANCE

TRANSFORMING GLOBAL RULE-MAKING

IFG continues its leadership within civil society’s efforts to democratize the rules governing the international flows of capital, goods, services, technology, and peoples, and to re-localize economies. We bring new voices to the debate, identify key issues that must not be ignored, offer analyses that unify networks in order to address issues collaboratively, and seize opportunities to put universal rights above trade liberalization.

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POPULATION

DOES POPULATION MATTER? BRIDGING THE COMMUNICATIONS GAP BETWEEN KEY COMMUNITIES ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUE OF ADJUSTING TO GLOBAL CARRYING CAPACITY

This subject has become a “third rail” issue that most do not want to touch, but the IFG is raising the question: Does Population Matter? A recent convening and report create a space where differing views from North and South (and within the North and the South) can be shared in a safe atmosphere of honest and open dialogue with the intention of creating deeper understanding, and, ideally, effective policy alternatives.

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POST CAPITALISM

STEPS TO NEW ECONOMIES OF SUSTAINABILITY, EQUITY, JUSTICE AND PEACE

We strongly doubt the continued viability of capitalism and its accompanying doctrines such as hyper economic growth. We feel it is crucial to openly discuss this and propose alternative models. IFG has amassed some of the world’s leading thinkers from a wide variety of disciplines and political perspectives and engaged them in an ongoing strategic conversation, leading up to a proposed series of public events and publications addressing the essential issues of the post capitalist era.