Policy Area
Climate Change and Environment
POLICY BRIEFS
Policy Briefs contain recommendations or visions and cover policy areas that are of interest to G20 policy makers.
The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding T20 Task Force. For more information on the relevant Task Force please visit T20 Japan.
T20 Recommendations Reports tie related policy proposals made under different G20 Presidencies into a common policy advice framework. They aim to leverage connections between T20 research organizations as well as other stakeholders to address well-defined global problems, in order to support G20 policy makers and to aid business and civil society organizations in complementing G20 policy efforts.
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G20 Japan
Policies and Practices to Enable Business Models for Resource Efficiency and a Circular Economy
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G20 Japan
Six Proposals for Future Policies towards Circular Economy and Society
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G20 Japan
Promotion of Constructing Zero Carbon Society: Effectiveness of Quantitative Evaluation of Technology and System for Sustainable Economic Development
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G20 Japan
Delivering National Climate Action Through Decarbonized Cities
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G20 Japan
Investing in Climate Change Mitigation: A G20 Action Plan for Upscaling Private Sector Contributions
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G20 Japan
Addressing Critical Issues for Building Climate Resilient Infrastructure
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G20 Japan
Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Countries: Promoting the New Paradigm
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G20 Japan
Potential of Various Renewable Energy and its Introduction Policy in Southeast Asia
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G20 Japan
Biodiversity – A Key Source of Technological Innovation
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G20 Japan
Strengthened Actions towards Decarbonised and Climate Resilient Society
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G20 Argentina
Fostering the cross-border infrastructure for sustainable development and regional cooperation
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Green Fiscal Reform for a Just Energy Transition in Latin America
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
The New Urban Paradigm
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Enhancing climate resilience through urban infrastructure and metropolitan governance
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
The contribution G20 governments can make to support the circular economy
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Circular economy measures to keep plastics and their value in the economy, avoid waste and reduce marine litter
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Towards a comprehensive approach to climate policy, sustainable infrastructure, and finance
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Better Products By Design
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Fostering sustainable global growth through green finance – what role for the G20?
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G20 Germany
Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-Benefits & Impacts of Energy Transformation on Resource Industries, Trade, Growth, and Taxes
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G20 Germany
The G20’s role in improving quality of life through sustainable energy and urban infrastructure in Africa
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G20 Germany
A decentralized, consumer-driven model for the solar eco-system
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G20 Germany
Establishing an Expert Advisory Commission to assist the G20’s Energy Transformation Processes
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G20 Germany
The G20 Countries Should Lead the Way in Designing and Participating in a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowance Trading System that Will Provide Adequate Financing to Enable Low-Income Countries to Meet their COP21 Pledges
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Policy options for a socially balanced climate policy
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Will the G20 provide the urgent leadership needed on climate action?
Accounting for more than 80 percent of global emissions, the role of the G20 in reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement is pivotal. But will the G20 provide the urgent leadership needed on climate action, asks Amar Bhattacharya, senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at Brookings.
The need for strong ambition of the G20 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Japan: Interview from Dean Yoshino on CNBC
Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), discusses infrastructure and climate change and argues that when leaders attend the G20 summit, they should adopt a global perspective instead of focusing on their own countries. This will help them negotiate and reach a conclusion.
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G20 Japan: Action Plan on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth
The G20 members have an important role in supporting the private sector in the promotion of innovation, investment, and a better business environment to develop and deploy affordable, reliable, sustainable, and low GHG emissions energy systems, and to achieve a cleaner, more resilient and sustainable future. Governments play a key role in innovation that provides clear signals and in creating an enabling environment.
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G20 Japan: Action Agenda on Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure
The Action Agenda on Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure is concluded by the G20 Environment Ministers as one of the outcomes of the G20 Adaptation Work Program (2018-2019), which outlines actions, initiatives, and best practices that G20 members wish to highlight and share with other countries.
G20 Action Agenda on Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure
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G20 Japan: Implementation Framework for Actions on Marine Plastic Litter
The G20 members recognize the increasing urgency to tackle the issue of marine litter, especially marine plastic litter and microplastics, on a global scale, further building on existing efforts.
G20 Japan Implementation Framework for Actions on Marine Plastic Litter
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Companies plead for a circular economy
A group of sustainable companies including multinationals and 2000 SMEs call upon the G20 to boost demand and transparency for circular products and services. A move towards a circular economy, which is restorative and regenerative by design, presents a huge opportunity. To overcome the barriers, they call on the G20 to secure access to sustainably sourced raw materials, bio-based materials and biomass; enhance re-use, recycling and cascading; train governments in green public procurement; extend public responsibility schemes and green fiscal reform aiming at resource efficiency; and aim for increasing the uptake of high-quality secondary raw materials.
The full text is available here.
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Brittaney Warren:
Research Report: G20 Climate Change Commitments and Compliance
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Brittaney Warren:
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Sybille Roehrkasten, R. Andreas Kraemer, Rainer Quitzow, Ortwin Renn, Sonja Thielges: An Ambitious Energy Agenda for the G20
http://www.iass-potsdam.de/en/content/ambitious-energy-agenda-g20
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R. Andreas Kraemer: Energy in the G20 Finance Track: G20 Energy Transformation during the German Presidency, CIGI
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Alexander Starritt: The cleverest countries on climate change – and what we can learn from them:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/the-cleverest-countries-on-climate-change