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ABOUT US
The Global Foundation is a citizens’ organization with extensive private sector membership, based in Australia. Fully independent of government and funded by its members, The Global Foundation promotes high-level thinking within Australia and cooperation between Australia and the world. It works with government and institutions, the private sector, academia and the community, to help shape longer term solutions to great challenges.
Alongside its broad and diverse membership base, the Foundation’s work is supported at the highest levels of society. The current Governor-General of Australia is Patron in Chief, with successive Prime Ministers of Australia and Leaders of the Opposition lending their bipartisan support, since the Foundation’s inception in 1998. The Foundation is also pleased to enjoy the active support of an increasing number of national and global eminent persons.
The Global Foundation fulfils a unique function as a custodian of Australia’s longer term national interest and has an unusual ability to combine global and local perspectives - to seek common ground among otherwise disparate interests, while remaining independent. In periods of uncertainty like the one we are now facing, this capacity to unify and coordinate non-partisan action is widely recognised.
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US-China-Australia Dialogue on Energy Security and Climate Change
As part of its commitment to promote high level cooperation on global issues, the Foundation co-presented an inaugural three-way, one-and-a-half track dialogue on energy security and climate change between the US, China and Australia in Washington in September 2008, with the support of the Australian Government. Building on this productive interchange a further round of the dialogue is presently under consideration, potentially to be held in Beijing in 2010.
The Energy Security and Climate Change dialogue in Washington was co-presented with the China Institute of International Studies and the School of Foreign Studies at Georgetown University. Made possible in part by earlier dialogues with China and the Foundation’s on-going relationship with the US, the dialogue focuses on matters of both policy and practical cooperation on energy security and climate change. The specific impetus for the inaugural dialogue came from the Foundation’s bilateral China-Australia Dialogue on Clean Energy and Environment held in Beijing in April 2008, which was addressed by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd and the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong.
The Report of the Washington dialogue is available.
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