The G20 presidency could champion affordable internet for women, innovation hubs for women entrepreneurs and subsidies for tech companies to hire more women.
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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.
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.
South Africa’s G20 presidency wants to set up at least three projects to share energy across borders in Africa within 10 years.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher at the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Professor and Research Theme Leader of the Flourishing Life Research Theme, University of the Free State
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Head of the School of Geosciences; Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Economics, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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Research associate, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Associate: Digital Economy, University of South Africa
