Perhaps harder than at any time since religions began to began to pay public attention to the physical fate of the earth, a quarter of a century ago.To understand why, consider the surreal condescension with which Christiana Figueres, the UN bureaucrat who is steering the global climate negotiations, addressed the religions of the world, as recently as May.
It may well be that the power of 'the West' decreases in world politics − and thus its place and significance in steering the global development.
Michael Kors dresses America's wealthiest women in arctic fox and ostrich feathers, while steering a global fashion empire whose ubiquitous handbags for around the £250 mark have made him a billionaire.
"We're trying to share the burden and responsibility of steering the global economy with those countries," a primary reason the Obama administration pushed for the Group of 20 to supplant the Group of 8 as the main stage for international economic negotiations.
In many societies, this is an ongoing process, and it remains to be seen how effective it can be in steering the global economy onto a more just and more sustainable path.
Severino and Ray redefine this task as steering this global complexity towards greater effectiveness, rather than attempting to reduce or even manage it, as the Paris Declaration has attempted to do.
Tim Gore, Oxfam's senior climate change policy adviser, added: "Climate funding holds the key to unlocking the talks and steering the world to a global solution that tackles the threat and the reality of climate change".
It is the National Association of Securities Dealers' biggest effort so far to go global, steering through one of the most hidebound, idiosyncratic and bureaucratic financial systems in the world.
By galvanizing and steering A World at School we saw a global movement for education flourish in a way not seen for a generation.
She has been widely praised for her role in reforming the economy and steering it through the global crisis.
The new regime is expected to move slowly, attempt no radical reforms and concentrate on prudently steering New Zealand through the global financial crisis.
