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"We need global leadership now more than ever, and yet there is little evidence of it" — our co-founder James Harding

The ‘G7bn’ urgently needs an agenda for leadership. Yesterday we began to discuss what this might be.

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Early in the morning, CEO of @AstraZenca Pascal Soriot revealed that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by the end of this year.

Who said slow journalism can’t be news leading? #TortoiseG7bnSummit

@SamanthaJPower on why we need to build a coalition between traditionally separate spheres of society:

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LIVE NOW: Is global leadership doomed – or due for a revival?

For our final session of the #TortoiseG7bnSummit we’re joined by:
@GayleSmith, CEO @ONECampaign,
@lisanandy, Shadow Secretary for Foreign Affairs
@IvoHDaalder, President, @ChicagoCouncil
“When I look at where we are, I don't think I've seen anything like this in my lifetime” – @IvoHDaalder, President
@ChicagoCouncil, in the final session of the #TortoiseG7bnSummit
@IvoHDaalder @ChicagoCouncil “Fragmentation with utterly failed leadership, I have never seen a circumstance, where the circumstances were even half as dire as they are now, where global leadership has failed to come together” – @GayleSmith CEO @ONECampaign
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In our penultimate session of the day we are joined by award winning British-Ghanaian architect @dadjaye to talk about the fundamentals of designing a better world.

Don’t miss it. Join us from wherever you are right now.
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"What it [2020] has done profoundly is to create a global pause that we have not had for a very long time. " – @dadjaye, joins us live at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit
@dadjaye "The politics of the city can't be just left to the private sector, it's a continual dance between research science policy and delivery." – @dadjaye British-Ghanain Architect, at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit

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Right now, we’re asking: will Covid-19 change how we think about food security?

Join us live and in conversation with @AmirMAbdulla of @WFP and @welshce of the Global Food Security Program

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@AmirMAbdulla @WFP @welshce "A nutrition crisis leads to an education crisis" –@AmirMAbdulla of @WFP live at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit
"One of the most important things is to continue to remind the global food security community that this is not the last global food crisis." – @welshce Director of the Global Food Security Program

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STARTING NOW: We’re excited to be joined at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit by our keynote speaker, former US ambassador to the UN, @SamanthaJPower.

Our question for this session: what role can global organisations play in 2020?
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@SamanthaJPower "“Overall I would say it’s D, D- for political co-operation on the Covid crisis” – @DMiliband, at the #TortoiseG7BnSummit

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"Political polarisation is just a killer of all semblance of unity in a crisis" – @SamanthaJPower

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Right now, we’re asking: can the #SDGs help us build back better?

With @DMiliband, @KateGarve and @eddiendopu

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“It seems to be with the discourse, we are always catching up with the moment rather than allowing the goals to set the agenda” – @eddiendopu live at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit
We tend to think about the #SDGs in isolation and that has affected how we make policy.

@eddiendopu says it’s time for leaders to let the goals set the agenda.
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Countries that went into the Covid crisis with a shaky economy will struggle to repay their debts.

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“We should be thinking about what a time out from sanctions might look like to deal with the immediate health crisis”

These are exceptional times that call for exceptional fiscal measures.

@NgaireWoods speaking at our #TortoiseG7bnSummit
During this, a crisis that they didn’t create, poorer countries are buckling under the weight of debt repayments.

Edwin Ikhuoria of the @ONECampaign on why we need to change our approach.
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Misinformation can be deadly. How do we give citizens new confidence to trust the information they see online?

Live with us now, helping us to answer that question:
@anneapplebaum
@jimmy_wales
@audreyt and
@Farah_Pandith

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Heavy-handed regulation isn’t the answer to managing the viral spread of disinformation.

@audreyt Taiwan’s Digital Minister emphasises that media ‘competence’, instead of ‘literacy’, empowers every individual to curate and question the narratives they consume #TortoiseG7bnSummit
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We just kicked off our #TortoiseG7bnSummit with a ThinkIn asking: who gets a vaccine?

Throughout today we’re discussing what leaders need to be doing about the big issues we face including: debt, the SDGs, misinformation, food security and much more.
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Pascal Soriot, CEO of @AstraZeneca, joined us for the first session of the #TortoiseG7bnSummit and explained the current pause in their vaccine trial.

Register now to join us for the afternoon sessions: torto.se/2FagvI0
“Governments have programmes to vaccinate people over a period of time...we will not have the capacity to supply the hundreds of millions of doses that will be necessary, governments will have to prioritise populations at risk”

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Covid-19 can be the turning point in the fight against disinformation. But leaders need to start taking action.

We’ll be discussing how at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit on global leadership on Thursday 10 September.

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For our second session we will ask the question ‘How do we hold misinformation to account?’. In preparation, we’ve been looking at the most common types of COVID misinformation.

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In Ofcom’s UK-based research, each conspiracy theory related to COVID was seen and shared less over time. It suggests that exposure to reality is a natural disinfectant.

But how do we stop lies spreading in the first place?

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