The G20’s new critical minerals framework wants to move Africa beyond raw exports so that mineral wealth creates jobs and growth on the continent.
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Development banks have spent over US$1 billion on factory farming in Africa, locking in high greenhouse gas emissions. Natural farming systems are a better choice.
South Africa can continue to advocate for its G20 presidency priorities beyond its 2025 term.
As G20 president, South Africa should encourage richer countries to support the Single African Air Transport Market.
South Africa’s Eastern Cape women farmers have problems getting land, loans, and leadership positions.
Africa’s second climate summit agreed that climate finance to Africa must be a legal obligation and that every country on the continent should have a climate law.
The G20 must establish a fair mineral trade for Africa, fund Africa’s climate needs, and make sure the move to clean energy benefits everyone.
South Africa needs to use its G20 presidency to press for reforms that could reduce Africa’s borrowing costs and strengthen its financial sovereignty.
South Africa’s G20 presidency is working on getting communities ready to survive disasters.
Africa’s Second Climate Summit in Ethiopia will try to find ways to bring in more finance to help the continent adapt to climate change.
Women smallholder farmers need digital platforms to sell their crops, support to get crops certified as organic, and communal places to process food.
African countries must work collectively to seize opportunities in new digital and green economies where the continent’s critical minerals are so important.
State-contingent debt instruments allow countries hit by economic and climate crises to restructure their debt repayments.
Agriculture is not just a victim of climate change. It is key to the solution. It must receive the same attention globally as fossil fuels and energy transitions.
Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
The G20 nations have enough sunny and windy land to power the world with renewable energy.
The G20 should acknowledge that diseases like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are part of a system in which commercial actors are causing ill health.
The G20 has an important role to play in global affairs. But its lack of representation and informal way of working need to be fixed first.
South Africa has secured pledges of R218 billion to fund its transition away from coal-fired power and bring in renewable energy.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Account Director
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Professor of Political Economy and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer: Agroecology and Sustainable Livelihoods, Nelson Mandela University
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Research and Innovation Development Manager for the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the Mining Institute and the African Research Centre for Ore Systems Science; Associate Professor of Geometallurgy and Machine Learning, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, School of Agriculture and Technology, University of Energy and Natural Resources
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Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Head of the School of Geosciences; Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
