1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Give me 30 seconds, 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I can give you a list of 30 terrifying challenges 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 facing humanity and the planet at this point in history. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And we wouldn't sleep tonight. 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are so many of them, and they seem to be so frightening 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's not really surprising 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that many of us are feeling a little bit disheartened, 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and a little bit anxious at the moment. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the way I see it - 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There are really only two things 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 stopping the world working at the moment 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The first one is the fact that the countries don't collaborate enough. 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We know the solutions to most of those challenges. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But we don't implement them because we don't work together. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the second thing that stopping the world working properly 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is the fact that every single one of those challenges 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 has been caused by the behaviour of human beings. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And if we can change that we can change everything. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now those sound like big tasks and they are. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But I'm optimistic. 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 For the last 10 years, I've been working on projects and plans and policies. 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to try and attack those two barriers to making the world work better. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some of them I tried to encourage countries to implement. 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the coolest ones, I keep and I try to do them myself. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So I'd like to tell you two of those in the few minutes that I've got today. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The first one is more of an update. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a project called the Good Country Index, which I launched back in 2014. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I haven't spoken about it for a while, but it has been through 4 different editions. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I thought it would be good to give an update. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So the Good Country Index is an attempt to measure what every country on earth 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 gives to the rest of the world 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 outside of its own borders, 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a kind of balance sheet for the world if you like. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 A lot of people, when I originally launched it said 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 not another country index, surely there are enough of those around already. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the interesting thing is that almost all of the others look inwards. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They treat countries as if they were little islands 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 inhabiting their own private oceans. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But surely that doesn't really make sense. 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Because everything everybody does has an impact on all of us, always. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If one country pollutes the air or water, that's our air and our water. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If they go to war, drags other countries in 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the refugees pour out. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 There is really nothing you can do any more 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So what the good country index attempts to do 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is to make a start towards helping people to understand 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that this is an interconnected system.