T20 South Africa Summit 2025

T20 South Africa Presents Communiqué to G20 South Africa

T20 South Africa Midterm Conference

T20 South Africa

South Africa is at the helm of the Think 20 in 2025. Building on the progress made by previous presidencies, the T20 prioritises diverse perspectives to foster inclusivity and collaboration and bridge geopolitical divides. Join us as we strive for a more just and sustainable future.
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Task Forces

The T20 bolsters South Africa’s G20 presidency by bringing together leading thinkers from across the world. They collaborate within five dedicated Task Forces, focusing their expertise on the following critical themes.

Policy Briefs

Embedding Circularity in Global Trade: A G20 Road Map for Catalysing Circular Value Chains

Trade and Investment
22 October 2025

Unleashing Green Investment Incentives for Climate Transition

Trade and Investment
22 October 2025

Enhancing JET Partnerships to Accelerate Fossil Fuel Phase-Out in the Oil and Gas Sector: A G20 Perspective

Accelerating Climate Action and the Just Energy Transition
22 October 2025

Urban and Peri-Urban Food Systems Governance as a Pathway to Improved Food Security and Nutrition and Sustainable Food Systems

Solidarity for the Achievement of the SDGs
22 October 2025

Leveraging Competition Policy to End Hunger

Solidarity for the Achievement of the SDGs
22 October 2025

Transforming the Global Agri-food System’s Monotony: Collaborative Solutions for Health, Inequalities, and Sustainability

Solidarity for the Achievement of the SDGs
22 October 2025

Commentary

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The G20 should challenge the power dynamics in digital public infrastructure

Data plays a crucial role in T20 discussions at the G20, influencing online interaction and civic engagement. The G20 should use its influence to create a multi-stakeholder agenda for Digital Public Infrastructure design.

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Will the G20 listen to its own advisors? 4 urgent steps on climate change

The G20 must make sure that when power stations are closed down, new jobs are offered to workers and the pollution left behind is cleaned up.

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Accelerating climate action and the just energy transition: The role of South Africa’s G20 presidency

South Africa’s G20 presidency presents a crucial opportunity to shape the just energy transition in the Global South, which bears the brunt of climate change despite contributing the least to global greenhouse gas emissions.

Statements & Speeches

Minister Dion George’s closing remarks at the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting- Cape Town, South Africa

Under South Africa's Presidency, Environment and Climate Ministers achieved two G20 firsts: the Cape Town Declaration on Crimes Affecting the Environment and on Air Quality.
17 Oct 2025

G20 South Africa Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) Ministerial Declaration on crimes that affect the environment- Cape Town, South Africa

The G20 Environment and Climate Ministers recognise the threat of illegal wildlife trafficking, emphasise boosting responses to environmental crimes, and build on the 2017 G20 principles against corruption in wildlife trade.
17 Oct 2025

G20 South Africa Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) Ministerial Declaration on Air Quality- Cape Town, South Africa

The G20 Ministers of Environment and Climate adopted the Cape Town Declaration recognising the risks of poor air quality and the need to improve it to protect vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, and disabled.
17 Oct 2025

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News

Call for Expressions of Interest: G20 Social Summit

The G20 Social Summit is scheduled for 18–20 November 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Making the WTO Work for Business and Consumers: A South-South Dialogue on WTO Reform

GENEVA – African stakeholders and the broader Global South convened at the South African Permanent Mission on 17 September 2025 to press for urgent reforms to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The roundtable, titled “Making the WTO Work for Business ...

UNGA 2025: T20 South Africa and DIRCO host high-level roundtable on financing for development

The global development finance landscape is at a critical juncture, facing immense pressure and a growing gap in funding needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Developing countries, in particular, struggle with debt, limited access to private ...

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