PUBLIC-PRIVATE CHALLENGE

Promoting prosperity and securing opportunities for sustainable development is a defining challenge of our time, with all United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aiming to reduce horizontal and vertical disparities between groups, individuals, governments and private organisations. These inequalities are barriers for sustainable economic growth, decent work, natural resource conservation, land, water and air restoration, and for inclusive societies and institutions. Democratic systems that hold dear that everyone is equal before the law have not been able to uphold nor restore this public value. Reducing inequalities requires all sectors and actors in society to contribute, including the law... After decades of deregulation and liberalisation, private entities have become fundamental for both the commons and the state, resulting in power distributions and inequalities. Throughout history the law has often been a malleable instrument, used for self-interested political or economic..

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