New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity
The report, New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene, shows that people’s sense of safety and security is at a low in almost every country, including the richest countries, despite years of upwards development success.
The new UNDP report examines a cluster of threats that have shifted to become more prominent in recent years including those from digital technologies, climate change, inequalities, conflicts and the ability of healthcare systems to tackle new challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.
The imperative to act now has never been clearer as the report findings show that global life expectancy at birth is falling and overall human development measures are going downwards. Join us for this deep dive into todays interconnected threats and the actions needed to create new pathways for human security in the Anthropocene.
The Swedish launch will be livestreamed from Venue 81 in Stockholm 25 February, 1.30 pm CET. You can watch the event via this link!
Speakers:
- Jenny Ohlsson, Sweden’s State Secretary to the Minister for International Development Cooperation
- Robert Egnell, Vice-Chancellor of the Swedish Defence University and Senior Fellow at Georgetown University
- Ulrika Modéer, Assistant Secretary General, UNDP
- Pedro Conceição, Lead Author and Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Moderator:
- Karolina Eklöw, Coordinator of the Environment of Peace initiative, SIPRI
New Threats to human security in the Anthropocene: demanding greater solidarity is a special report by UNDP’s Human Development Report Office that will kick off a global conversation on human security and enrich the preparations of the 2021-2022 Human Development Report coming later in the year.
#ReimaginingDevelopment
This event is part of the seminar series #ReimaginingDevelopment hosted by the United Nations Development Programme in Sweden. The seminar series aims to contribute to a deeper conversation about the future of development by exploring how we can reimagine the ways in which we address the major challenges of our time.
