The workforce shortage and gender disparity in cybersecurity profession pose a greater risk to the digital economies from cyber adversaries. The global efforts and initiatives for women to pursue career in cybersecurity field tend to be lesser than men along with various societal barriers, which consequently result in their underrepresentation and underutilization in cyber industry. The G20 states and other nations equally share the cyberspace and therefore need to collaborate and complement efforts to address gender disparity in cybersecurity profession. Providing education, training, entrepreneurship, and equal opportunities to women in cybersecurity would help to build a safe and resilient cyberspace and would also contribute to their socio-economic empowerment.

This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020.

Developing the bioeconomy offers a significant opportunity for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at the global level, while at the same time serve as strategic instruments for addressing new challenges emerging from the COVID-19 global crisis. Advances in science and technology and existing experiences, fully support expectations in this sense. However, effective progress will be only possible if national strategies evolve within a coherent and harmonized global framework. The G20 has a strategic role in promoting this transition not only among its members, but within the broader development community. Three specific lines of action are proposed in support of this transition: (i) a broader agreement on guiding principles for global bioeconomy policymaking; (ii) a framework of credible bioeconomy indicators; and (iii) an effective bioeconomy knowledge management platform.

This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020.

Modern food systems, though fundamental to human life, generate heavy costs to the environment and public health. These costs transcend borders and generations; therefore, they require international governmental action. We call on the G20 to lead action on this problem by (1) issuing a mandate to international organizations to develop a harmonized approach to measure the social cost of food, (2) coordinating international reform of current harmful policies, especially subsidies linked to the emission of greenhouse gasses or a nutritionally imbalanced food supply, that contribute to costs, and (3) setting an agenda to repurpose government resources previously used on harmful policies for reducing the costs remaining after reform of current policies through beneficial policies, such as agricultural R&D for sustainability, payment for ecosystem services, and food safety initiatives.

This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020.

The challenge to produce more food to meet the growing world demand requires a careful, integrated and global approach, to secure the efficient use of land, water and energy at the global level, aimed at increasing productivity and food supply with production systems which are environmentally friendly. Nowadays in many regions the crop production is still developed under intensive production systems, which are deteriorating the natural resources and contributing to global warming. The purpose should be to move to more environmentally friendly production systems. To support that process it is proposed to improve the measurement of sustainable practices in crop production and to monitor the production systems in different regions to provide international comparisons and track performance over time.

At the same time, trade is, and will be in the future crucial to cope with a global production system environmentally friendly providing suffice food to meet food security, given that regional production and consumption imbalances associated with regional differences in resource endowments are very relevant. However, world trade of agricultural products continues seriously limited by trade policies and could be worsened by new measures implemented by some countries during or after the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, the G20 should promote policies and measures to facilitate dialogue and information exchange on supply and demand to foster agreements between food trading partners, based on a more open trading system, aimed at reconciling both objectives: global food security and environmental sustainability.