From the introduction:

The world is still facing the challenge of taking more than a billion people out of extreme poverty, reducing growing social inequalities and revers¬ing the negative impacts of human beings on the environment. For this, much cooperation is needed: among people, among institutions, among countries. It is a challenge in a globalized world that shares information quickly but at the same time is unable to integrate efforts in an effective way, failing to explore what’s best about idiosyncrasies, which is the possibility of complementarity of solutions. The emergence of leaders capable of dealing with cultural differences and different degrees of knowl¬edge and development, finding points in common and converging on the search for creative solutions, is crucial to overcome the obstacles placed in the way of sustainability. We live in a world with great wealth, high technology and capacity for innovation. The difficult question is how to mobilize people around the planet and direct these resources to critical problems.