Views: 35Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI, for short) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other media while using generative models. As a rule, Gen AI focuses on creating new and original content, on chat responses, designs, synthetic data, etc. GenAIs are already transforming businesses and allowing humans to be more creative and productive. […]
Category: EU in global governance
Modern “climate consensus”: multilateralism and diplomacy in action
Views: 30The COP28 was a sobering reminder that the world was far off its targets in climate actions: i.e. global emissions continued to rise by 1.5% a year, when they have to be reduced by 7% annually to keep the goals of Paris climate agreement by 2030. Among main outcomes of the recent summit has […]
Post-COP28: lessons and perspectives
Views: 38After about two weeks of negotiations, the leaders of the world in Dubai, UAE have agreed on a “final deal”. For the first time in the thirty years of COPs history the political deal calls on global community to “move away” from the use of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil), though not “phasing […]
Artificial intelligence (AI): the EU and world-wide regulatory efforts
Views: 37Existing and potential AI’s benefits are enormous to all walks of human life, i.e. for households, business and the economy. However, the acceleration and AIs implementation brings new challenges. As the AI’s regulatory front-runner, the EU is contributing to AI governance world-wide. By setting the AI standards, the digital community can pave the way […]
European values and interests: EU-China summit’s results
Views: 39High-level dialogues on strategic and foreign policy issues including human rights and trade, economic relations and climate, environment and digital issues, etc. have been under closer attention during the China-EU summit. It demonstrated the EU’s commitment “to be engaged” with China, as the Commission’s press release put it.
Financing green transition: European experience
Views: 20The “green recovery” transition process is an expensive endeavor: hence the European Commission tries to find most effective ways to finance it. Thus, more than two years after the start of the green bond issuance, the borrowing has brought about €50 billion to the market to become the world’s largest green bond program.
Artificial Intelligence’s safety summit: formulating perspective priorities
Views: 23The global community is entering a completely new and different digital era witnessing a coming period where computers start acting human-kind and hopefully “intelligently”. With the complexity of the AIs facilities, the issues of safety are becoming more complex. At the recent AI safety summit in London the EU suggested four perspective priorities aimed […]
Transformative and accelerated actions towards SDGs-2030
Views: 51Recent summit of global leaders at the UN Headquarters in New York at the end of September were aimed at reviewing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs. Besides, it provided a high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading to achieving the SDGs by 2030, which […]
“Green transition” issues: political economy’s complexities
Views: 29Most countries in the world, including both the US and the EU political economy’s governance, are deeply involved in delivering “green agendas” with massive investments in green growth and renewable technologies. Particularly, public green subsidies in the two big powers are aimed at encouraging private sector’s sustainable growth patterns. However, decision-making in green transition […]
The EU’s Erasmus+ program: additional efforts in global education
Views: 24The Commission selected 159 projects for funding under Erasmus+ program (Capacity Building for Higher Education), which supports the modernisation and quality assurance of higher education in third countries worldwide. These projects respond to the EU-wide aim of supporting international cooperation in the fields of higher education, improving education systems, as well as strengthening socio-economic […]