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Articles on G20 South Africa presidency
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African farmers face rising climate disasters that destroy crops and livestock. The G20 must champion new, affordable tech-based insurance for them.
Africa’s small-scale aquaculture practitioners need cold storage facilities to stop their fish from going to waste.
The G20 must collect ancient practices that can help the world withstand climate change so that this knowledge is available for future generations.
South Africa needs to use its G20 presidency to press for reforms that could reduce Africa’s borrowing costs and strengthen its financial sovereignty.
Multilateralism is under severe strain. Does the G20 still have a role in this changing landscape?
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.
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.
Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
The G20 nations have enough sunny and windy land to power the world with renewable energy.
African countries can move from being price takers to price negotiators. They should be able to reduce debt costs, freeing up resources for development.
Instead of disconnected projects driven by external priorities, a country platform enables governments to set the agenda and direct finance to where it is needed.
South Africa’s G20 presidency this year must take 7 critical steps to stop deforestation in Africa.
A successful African rating agency would shift power in global finance.
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.
South Africa subsidises fossil fuel companies to the tune of R118 billion (US$6.2 billion) a year. As G20 president, South Africa must push to end these subsidies.
Top contributors
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston 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 Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Prof. Dr. | Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
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Extraordinary lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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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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Associate Professor and Director of the SAMRC/Wits 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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Senior lecturer, University of the Free State - Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (UFS-DiMTEC), University of the Free State
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Full Professor and acting Director of the Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa (DiMTEC), University of the Free State