Roads from Rio+20: Prof. Anthony Giddens

In the run-up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012, Professor Maarten Hajer (director of PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) talked to an international group of people on the worldwide search for effective ways to solve sustainability challenges.

Here, Professor Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics) reflects on how the world has radically increased its interdependence but the mechanisms of governing world society are relatively primitive. We depend on national governments and the energy and inventiveness of civil society.