Austrian Foreign Ministry Wants “Better coordination for development cooperation”

Politics ♦ Published: October 12, 2012; 17:37 ♦ (Vindobona)

"No single country can solve all the major problems of our time alone", Austrian State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka said at the "Development Dialogue" event in Parliament today.

Austrian Foreign Ministry Wants “Better coordination for development cooperation” / Picture: © Vindobona.org

"The enormous growth in the world population, climatic change and the re-location of the major economic and growth centres are all factors that present the international community with gigantic challenges. Our planet must now provide food for over seven billion people. By 2020 it is expected that there will be 8.17 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050 - and the trend is rising",…