CIGI Papers No. 298 — August 2024 - Closing the Global North-South Gap

the bulk of the world’s population and the vast Today, many nations of the Global South have majority of youths, nations in the Global South feel recognized the significance of access to space that they deserve a more equitable role within the and are investing efforts towards pursuing it. [...] 2022) projects that the In light of the fast-paced changes that space Democratic Republic of the Democratic Republic commercialization is bringing about worldwide, a of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, new set of outer space regulations are needed under Tanzania and the Philippines alone will be home the auspices of the United Nations to narrow this to half the global population b. [...] 298 — August 2024 • Chaitanya Giri and Kyle Hiebert Technology, Policy & Strategy at the National in article I of the OST and the 1996 UN Declaration Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on International Cooperation in the Exploration highlights the economic benefit of the 69,000 and Use of Outer Space.2 In an increasingly jobs the program is forecasted to produce over multipolar world, the. [...] The 1976 Convention on the International Marine Satellite Organization Differentiating Access in subsequently adopted the same principle.8 the Second Space Age Both of these agreements need to be updated to reflect the unfolding dynamics of the second space age. [...] As part of the 2022 operational, legal and political challenges in Bali Declaration, G20 countries also requested that relation to the second space age, differentiation in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and access to space will become a practical necessity the World Bank Group strengthen space-based for upholding the principles of the OST.