African Role in G20 Requires More Than a Seat at the Table
Africa’s absence constrained its ability to provide views on major global economic issues at the G20 summits as well as ministerial and technical meetings.
The G20 and African Climate Finance
Financing green investments remains a challenge in Africa, but the G20’s interest in mobilising sustainable finance for developing countries could be a lifeline for the continent.
Ensuring a Just Energy Transition through Hydrogen: How the G20 can Support Africa
Africa is well positioned to become a major hub in the global production of green hydrogen. This policy insight explores G20 members’ recognition of green hydrogen as a
key technology in decarbonising hard-to-abate carbon-intensive industries.
Africa’s COVID-19 Recovery Challenge: How the G20 can Bridge the Development Financing Gap
Having been pummelled by the effects of COVID-19, developed and developing countries are pursuing strategies to accelerate their recovery process and to bolster their health systems and economies against future crises.
Boosting Africa’s and LDCs’ Agency in the G20
African countries have always played a limited role within the G20 decision making processes.
A New South African Climate Diplomacy: G7, G20 and Beyond
South Africa has played an important role in global climate negotiations, but this can be further scaled up to respond more directly to the imperative of a more geostrategic and mainstream economic framing of climate diplomacy, and debates around how to ‘build back better’ in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
G20 and development
COVID-19 has turned everything upside down. The global lockdowns, the stresses on weak health systems, the absence of fiscal space and social safety nets, the downturn in the world economy, have wiped out years of progress in development across the developing world.
A decade of G20 summitry: Assessing benefits, limitations & future of global club governance
A decade on from its elevation to a global leadership forum, the Group of 20 (G20) merits nuanced, updated evaluation.
G20 compact with Africa: Consolidating and accelerating Rwanda’s transformation agenda
Rwanda harnessed the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) initiative as a framework to accelerate and consolidate its economic transformation agenda in line with the country’s Vision 2050.
G20 compact with Africa: The case of Ghana
Ghana’s participation in the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA) indicates its strong appetite for reforms, seeing as its reform commitments were already reform actions under its International Monetary Fund (IMF) Extended Credit Facility Programme.