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.
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Multilateralism is under severe strain. Does the G20 still have a role in this changing landscape?
Policy-makers must grapple with an uncomfortable truth: without deliberate action, AI will magnify global divides.
Credit rating agencies are now responding to governance failures, not just macroeconomic trends.
Millions of jobs could be created from sustainable economic ocean development.
The G20 presidency could champion affordable internet for women, innovation hubs for women entrepreneurs and subsidies for tech companies to hire more women.
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.
Egypt has always relied on the River Nile for its freshwater but needs new sources to cope with a growing population. Desalinating seawater could be a solution.
South Africa has a progressive tax system. But there are parts of it that reduce its impact and need to be fixed.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
Finance ministers should stay away from debt negotiations because their interests are more short term.
The G20 nations have enough sunny and windy land to power the world with renewable energy.
Tax compliance is a burden for small and medium businesses in Uganda, with negative consequences.
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
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Assistant Professor, University of Kinshasa
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Research Associate, University of Cambridge
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Chief Director: Tshwane University of Technology – Institute for Economic Research on Innovation; Node Head: DST/NRF SciSTIP CoE; and Professor Extraordinary: Stellenbosch University – Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology., Tshwane University of Technology
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Senior Researcher at the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Lecturer: Agroecology and Sustainable Livelihoods, Nelson Mandela University
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Director General CIFOR, Director of Science CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer at the African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct professor, Discipline Lead: Energy and Director of the African Energy Leadership Centre., University of the Witwatersrand
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town