Press coverage
CNBC
11 November 2022 - Divisions in the West are about finding ‘concrete solutions’ to geopolitical decision. Pascal Lamy, president of the Paris Peace Forum and former director-general of the WTO, speaks to CNBC about problems the West is facing.
VOA
11 November 2022 - Paris Peace Forum Convenes, Looks for Solutions to Today’s Crises. A two-day peace forum opened Friday in Paris, aimed at offering a more hopeful note to a year marked by the war in Ukraine, skyrocketing hunger and prices, and the rising destruction from climate change. Latin America is also on the agenda.
Clarín
10 November 2022 - ¿Qué es el Forum de la Paz? Una cita crucial en París bajo la sombra de la guerra en Ucrania. Comienza este viernes con la presencia de Alberto Fernández y otros jefes de Estado y de gobierno. Qué está en juego.
Forbes México
16 June 2022 - El Foro de París para la Paz indicó que Gurría ha sido elegido por unanimidad de los miembros de su consejo ejecutivo y sucederá al francés Pascal Lamy, antiguo ministro y exdirector general de la Organización Mundial del Comercio.
Le Monde
18 May 2022 - An independent group of Northern and Southern ex-leaders, chaired by Pascal Lamy, will recommend a strategy to reduce the risks from a rise in temperature above the Paris Agreement's most ambitious target.
CNN
13 November 2021 - Harris' trip produced just two tangible agreements, expanded US-French space cooperation and a US decision to sign onto the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, a French initiative setting rules of the road in cyberspace.
Washington Post
13 November 2021 - Harris attended an Armistice Day ceremony with French President Emmanuel Macron and opened the Paris Peace Forum, an event focusing on socioeconomic inequality, saying, “No single nation can take on inequality alone.”
RFI
12 November 2021 - Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari has urged developed counties to rapidly ramp up supplies of coronavirus vaccines to Africa and the developing world. He was speaking on day one of the three-day Paris Peace Forum.
Associated Press
11 November 2021 - About 30 heads of state and government and U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris were participating in the Paris Peace Forum that opened Thursday. The summit, organized both in person and online, brings together world leaders, CEOs, NGOs and others to discuss global issues such as climate, the COVID-19 pandemic and digital transition.
NPR
11 November 2021 - In a speech at the 2021 Paris Peace Forum largely focused on global inequality, Harris noted that Congress approved the $1 trillion infrastructure bill just before she left Washington. She said the measure will "make a historic investment" in the nation's infrastructure.
Financial Times
1 September 2021 - The world is at a perilous and urgent moment in the Covid-19 pandemic. The Delta variant has spread rapidly to more than 130 countries, demonstrating that we are fighting a virus that doesn’t respect borders and advances rapidly across continents. From Ana Botín, Pascal Lamy and others
The UN Brief
12 July 2021 - Interview with Pascal Lamy, President, Paris Peace Forum
The Guardian
5 July 2021 - Pascal Lamy, former director of the WTO and chair of a joint conference organised by the nonprofit Paris Peace Forum and the One Campaign, which aims to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, said: “The 870m does really look meagre.” He added that he hoped the G20 finance ministers meeting in Venice and the national leaders due to meet in Rome later this year would be more ambitious.
France Inter
20 June 2021 « Au Forum de Paris sur la Paix nous travaillons sur les principes du monde post-Covid. » - Justin Vaïsse
The Lancet
17 June 2021 - Doses of Covid-19 vaccines must be shared globally. G7 countries secured contracts for 1.3 billion more doses of the vaccine than they will need to vaccinate their entire populations. Contribution de Adrien Abécassis
Project Syndicate
24 March 2021 - Failure to heal divisions over vaccine availability for developing countries could poison the well of global cooperation and imperil the COP26 climate negotiations. Advanced economies should therefore offer the Global South a “solidarity package” encompassing vaccine distribution, debt relief, and climate goals. Contribution by Justin Vaïsse
Project Syndicate
3 February 2021 - At the Paris Peace Forum on November 12 last year, French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders launched a global discussion on forging a new consensus for the post-COVID-19 world. This discussion is continuing through an ongoing debate published by Project Syndicate and its member newspapers worldwide.
14 January 2021 - Multilateralism took many a hit in 2020, and many global institutions and alliances were really put to the test. As the weak points of the multilateral order were exposed, governments and the international community were also provided with several areas for concrete improvement and new courses for collective action. Marc Reverdin, Secretary General of the Paris Peace Forum, reflects on the state of multilateralism, the points of caution and how we can rebuild.
France 5
9 January 2021 - « Il y a quand même de l’espoir dans le drame qui s’est joué mercredi, parce qu’après tout c’est aussi la journée où d’une part Trump s’est déconsidéré, il est devenu toxique pour une partie du parti républicain. Et puis c’est la journée où les démocrates ont pris le contrôle , pas du Congrès mais d’une des deux chambres : le Sénat et ça c’est très important pour nous parce que ça veut dire que Joe Biden aura une majorité au Sénat et à la chambre pour gouverner et en particulier en matière de politique internationale. » - Justin Vaïsse
euronews
20 December 2020 - « We need to seriously increase the marine areas we protect. Some of these zones are in the European Union, but we need to go beyond that. Our goal is to protect 30% of our total aquatic surface by 2030. We also need to systematically equip our fishing boats with geolocation tools to be able to track them and stop over-fishing. We must develop clean engines for all kinds of of motorised vehicles on the seas and oceans, especially for coastal areas where ferries and costal ships tend to be. » - Pascal Lamy
12 November 2020 - Governments and private charities will commit to more than $500m to boost research into the novel coronavirus at the Paris Peace Forum, organisers of the event said on Thursday. The forum, an annual meeting of heads of state and government with civil society organisations and charitable foundations, said the funds would come from those participating in the ACT-Accelerator initiative, a programme designed to ensure global access to COVID-19 tests, therapeutics and vaccines.
The Economic Times
4 September 2020 - « On the one side, we have a system based on sovereignty and on the other there is an increasing divergence on what sovereignty means, which is hindering the system to make progress. » - Pascal Lamy
France Culture
20 July 2020 - « La vocation du Forum de Paris sur la Paix est d'élargir le multilatéralisme à d'autres acteurs que les Etats et de l'ouvrir à la société civile, les fondations philanthropiques, les ONG, les banques de développement. » - Justin Vaïsse
France Culture
2 July 2020 - « La Chine & les Etats-Unis ont perdu en prestige du fait de leurs réactions à la pandémie de Covid-19. Leur puissance en revanche n'a été que peu affaiblie. » - Justin Vaïsse