The Group of 78 plans to engage a report writer for its annual policy conference to be held in Ottawa on October 10, 2025. The theme of the conference is on international development, and the specific title is Redefining development in the new world disorder: Harnessing AI and innovative finance to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. Further information… Continue Reading Chief Reporteur Wanted: Report Writer for Group of 78 Conference

The Group of 78 is pleased to announce that registration for the 2025 Annual Policy Conference is now open. Follow the link provided here for more information.

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion confirming that states violating international treaties and conventions as well as customary legal practices and norms on climate change are open to legal action for damage caused to the environment and to people. This opinion applies particularly to the failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions… Continue Reading G78 Praises ICJ Opinion on States’ Obligations on Climate Change

In this post, G78’s Past Chair, Dr. Roy Culpeper, provides a briefing on progress made at the recent conference in Seville on financing for development. Citing a Carnegie Endowment report on the event, Dr. Culpeper highlights four important commitments in the outcome document from Seville: alleviating sovereign debt burdens, increasing trade access, expanding public domestic resource mobilization, and… Continue Reading Rekindling Hope: Roy Culpeper on the Seville Financing for Development Conference

The Broadbent Institute (https://broadbentinstitute.ca/), a progressive Canadian think tank, recently published an insightful paper by Roy Culpeper, Past Chair of the Group of 78, on the current debt crisis facing low- and middle-income countries.  The paper argues that the most recent wave of debt began in 2010 and has persisted for the last fifteen years, threatening the social… Continue Reading This Time It’s Worse: The New International Debt Crisis

The date for the Group of 78’s Annual Policy Conference has been set for October 10, 2025. As always, you can count on lively dialog with speakers, panelists, and other guests. Registration and schedule are forthcoming.