Each year, the Group of 78 holds a policy conference to debate a key international issue of the day and Canada’s role and response to it.
- 2025: Redefining development in the new world disorder: Harnessing AI and innovative finance to reach the Sustainable Development Goals
- 2024: Civil Society Confronts the Climate Emergency
- 2023: Preventing & Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict
- 2022: Transforming Ecological Finance for Economic, Social, and Planetary Justice
- 2021: Adaptation: Building Resilience in the Global Climate Emergency
- 2020: The Future of Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World (Policy Forum)
- 2019: Global Markets Inequality and the Future of Democracy
- 2018: Meeting the Climate Challenge: Accelerating the Transition to a Post-Carbon World
- 2017: Getting to Nuclear Zero: Building Common Security for a Post-MAD World
- 2016: The Limits to Armed Intervention: Lessons from Africa, the Middle East & Afghanistan
- 2015: Strengthening Multilateral Cooperation: The United Nations at 70
- 2014: World War 1 and Contemporary Policy on War and Peace
- 2013: Responding to China’s Re-emergence
- 2012: Armed Intervention: Lessons from Afghanistan
- 2011: The Growing Struggle between Democracy and Global Economic Liberalization
- 2010: Security and Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy
- 2009: Peace, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law: Canada’s Role in the Middle East
- 2008: All Politics Are Global: Canadian Foreign Policy in an Inter-connected World
- 2007: Global Stewardship: A Vision for Canada in the World
- 2006: African Stability: A Role for Canada?
- 2005: Internationalism Revitalized, or “Pax Americana”: W[h]ither Canada?
- 2004: Sovereignty and the Interdependence of Nations: Implications for Canada
- 2003: Canada and the Developing World: Meeting our Responsibilities
- 2002: Hot-Button issues in Canadian Foreign Policy since Sept. 11
- 2001: Change and Challenge to Canadian Foreign Policy, 1981-2001
- 2000: Canada’s Commitment to World Peace
- 1999: Globalization and its Discontents