International Cooperationin the National Interest

Meeting GlobalChallenges

I nt er n at i on al T a s k F or c e on

Gl o b al P u b l i c G o o d s

Meeting Global Challenges:International Cooperationin the National Interest

Report o theInternational Task Force on Global Public GoodsCo-Chairs

Ernesto Zedillo and Tidjane Thiam

Members

K.Y. AmoakoGun-Britt AnderssonC. Fred BergstenKemal DervisMohamed T. El-AshryGareth EvansEnrique IglesiasInge KaulLydia MakhubuTrevor ManuelHisashi OwadaNas SadikBrigita Schmögnerová Yves-Thibault de SilguyM.S. Swaminathan

Copyright © 2006by the International Task Force on Global Public Goods.All rights reserved.ISBN: 0-9788790-0-7For electronic copies o this report, please visit www.gpgtaskorce.org.For hard copies o this report, please contact the Secretariat o theInternational Task Force on Global Public Goods, PO Box 16369, SE-103 27 Stockholm, Sweden. Ater 31 December 2006, please contactthe Department or Development Policy, Ministry or Foreign Aairs,SE-103 39 Stockholm, Sweden.Printing: Erlanders Inologistics Väst AB, Stockholm, SwedenDesign: Grundy & Northedge, London, United KingdomEditing and layout: Communications Development Incorporated,Washington, D.C., United StatesThis publication may be reproduced in ull or in part i accompaniedwith the ollowing citation: International Task Force on Global PublicGoods. 2006.

Meeting Global Challenges: International Cooperation in the National Interest

. Final Report. Stockholm, Sweden.The Task Force is ully independent. Members serve in their personalcapacity and not under instructions rom any government or organiza-tion. The report refects strictly personal views o the members o theTask Force and is in no way an expression o their views in their ocialcapacity nor the views o any government or organization with whichthey are aliated.All but one o the members o the Task Force ully endorsed and signedo on this report. Inge Kaul did not.