
Policy Area
Global Cooperation for SDGs Financing
POLICY BRIEFS
Policy Briefs contain recommendations or visions and cover policy areas that are of interest to G20 policymakers. The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding T20 Task Force.
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 policymakers and to aid business and civil society organizations in complementing G20 policy efforts.
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G20 2022
Enhancing Digital Sustainable Finance: Digital Solutions To Mobilise Capital, Assess Environmental Risks And Enhance Financial Inclusion -
G20 2022
A Proposal For A Blended-Financing Framework For Recovery And Accelerated Sustainable Transition -
G20 2022
Assessing Private Sector SDG Contributions Through An ESG Metrics Lens To Enhance SDG Private Financing -
G20 2022
A Three-Step Approach To Close The SDG Financing Gap For Developing Countries -
G20 2022
Bridging The SDGs’ Financial Gap: Creating An Effective Blended-Finance Scheme For Philanthropy Under The Framework Of The G20 -
G20 2022
Financing the Sustainable Blue Economy -
G20 2022
Financing SDGs Through Blending And Local Resource Mobilisation -
G20 2022
Impact Investing: Fueling The SDGs -
G20 2022
G20-Backed Blended Finance Fund-Of-Funds And Holistic Resource Platform To Help Low-Income And Vulnerable Economies Meet UN SDGs By 2030 -
G20 2022
Moving Beyond GDP To Achieve The SDGs -
G20 2022
The Sustainable Finance Market In ASEAN+3: Development, Opportunities And Future Steps -
G20 2022
Intensifying Philanthropic Participation In SDGs Through Strengthening The Ecosystem -
G20 2022
Partnering For Green Recovery: Industrial Symbiosis As ESG Strategy In A Post COVID-19 Era -
G20 2022
Enhancing Environmental, Social And Governance Frameworks To Scale Up Climate Finance -
G20 2021
The economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs in a post-Covid World -
G20 2021
Repurposing agricultural policy support for climate change mitigation and adaptation -
G20 2021
Supporting SMEs in sustainable strategy development Post-Covid-19: Challenges and Policy Agenda for the G20 -
G20 2021
Science, technology and innovation for SDGS post-pandemic: Strengthening technology facilitation mechanism and global public goods for low- and middle-income countries -
G20 2021
Creative Economy 2030: Inclusive and resilient Creative Economy for sustainable development and recovery -
G20 2021
ESG20: Standardisation to foster public-private collaboration towards the 2030 Agenda -
G20 2021
Involving higher education (SDG4) in achieving sustainable cities and communities (SDG11) through problem-solving and learning-by-doing practices towards the 2030 Agenda -
G20 2021
Debt relief for sustainable recovery in low- and middle- income countries: Proposal for new funding mechanisms to complement the DSSI -
G20 2021
A multidimensional approach to poverty that strengthens the Humanitarian-Development Nexus -
G20 2021
SDG16: An enabler for accelerated implementation of the 2030 Agenda amid Covid-19 -
G20 2021
A more sustainable and resilient agri-food sector to better deal with the pandemic -
G20 2021
Availing existing frameworks to enable a clean and sustainable transition in the transport sector -
G20 2021
Aligning Covid-19 recovery efforts with the SDGS – Toolbox and Principles -
G20 2020
Dealing with interlinkages – A focused approach for implementing the SDGS and overcoming the Covid-19 crisis -
G20 2020
Leveraging private philanthropy towards achieving the SDGS -
G20 2020
Incentivizing the private sector to support the united nations sustainable development goals -
G20 2020
The sustainable development agenda: Leveraging the G20 to enhance accountability and financing -
G20 2020
Leveraging digital technology to bridge the global knowledge divide: The promise of MOOCs revisited -
G20 2020
G20 leadership and relevance of the global pilot programme on science, technology, and innovation for SDGS roadmaps -
G20 2020
Post-Covid-19 to 2030: Early childhood programs as pathway to sustainability in times of global uncertainty -
G20 2020
G20 collaborative strategy for SDG 4 Target 4.7: Monitoring progress in education for sustainable development and global citizenship education -
G20 2020
COVID-19 Response Strategies, Addressing Digital Gender Divides -
G20 2020
Advancing Enterprise Education for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) among MENA Countries -
G20 2020
The Sustainable Development Agenda: Leveraging the G20 to Enhance Accountability and Financing -
G20 Japan
Socially Responsible Production in Global Value Chains: A Roadmap -
G20 Japan
Global Targets on Drinking Water -
G20 Japan
Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs -
G20 Japan
Fiscal and Debt Sustainability in Africa -
G20 Japan
G20 Compact with Africa -
G20 Japan
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Strengthening Public and Private Sector Impact through Accountability and Measurement (SDG 5) -
G20 Japan
A Gendered Perspective on Changing Demographics: Implications for Labour, Financial and Digital Equity -
G20 Japan
Leveraging Science, Technology and Innovation for Implementing the 2030 Agenda -
G20 Japan
Sustainable Financing for Development -
G20 Japan
Teacher professional skills: key strategies to advance in better learning opportunities -
G20 Japan
Measuring Transformational Pedagogies Across G20 Countries to Achieve Breakthrough Learning: The Case for Collaboration -
G20 Japan
Developing National Agendas in Order to Achieve Gender Equality in Education (SDG 4)
- Health is more than Medicine
- Health is the most important value for the individual person and for society
- A Long-Term Transformation Pathways Initiative (LTTPI) for the G20
- SDGs and health: A vision for public policy
- A Multi-Religious Consensus on the Ethics of Sustainable Development: Reflections of the Ethics in Action Initiative
- Development and justice through transformation: The Four Big ‘I’s
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Global Solutions Journal G20/T20 Italy 2021 Edition
The Global Solutions Journal G20/T20 Italy 2021 Edition focuses on Italy’s G20 priorities, overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Governance and New Measurement.
Authors from various sectors – politics, research, academia, business, and civil society – have contributed to this multifaceted edition.
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S20 Saudi Arabia Communique
S20 Saudi Arabia 2020: Read the Communique here.
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Final Report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
Read the full report: People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future.
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Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany: The UN’s Sustainability Goals could fail
The UN’s Sustainability Goals could fail, argues Christian Kroll, a senior expert on sustainability at the Bertelsmann Foundation. In September, the heads of state and government will meet again for the first time in New York to take stock of the Agenda 2030, but current SDG report shows that the world community talks a lot about sustainability goals but invests too little in their implementation.
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G20 Japan: Women at Work in G20 countries – Progress and policy action
Considerable policy action has occurred in G20 countries to boost women’s participation in the labour market and reduce gender gaps in job quality. Nevertheless, G20 members and stakeholders may wish to consider further action.
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G20 Japan: Update on G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
In 2019, the G20 is delivering on this commitment through the Osaka Update in highlighting 2019 priorities and new collective actions put forward by the Japanese G20 Presidency, strengthening the multistakeholder dialogue on the 2030 Agenda through engagements and partnerships, and continuing the peer learning mechanism on the implementation of the Action Plan. In this regard, we take note of the analysis in the OECD-UNDP independent report “G20 CONTRIBUTION TO THE 2030 AGENDA – PROGRESS AND WAY FORWARD –“.
Update on G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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G20 Japan: Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments
The Osaka Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments takes stock the progress on the G20 Development Agenda since the last Comprehensive Accountability Report (CAR) in 2016. Accountability processes support leaning from the implementation of previous commitments and serve the G20’s transparency and credibility.
Osaka Comprehensive Accountability Report on G20 Development Commitments
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G20 Japan: Shared Understanding on the Importance of UHC Financing in Developing Countries
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) builds an essential basis for sustainable and inclusive growth. Progress towards UHC, which ensures that all people can access the quality health services they need without experiencing financial hardship, enhances health outcomes, thus helping develop human capital. It promotes job creation, increases financial protection and reduces poverty, promotes economic inclusion, and strengthens health security and thus macro-stability. However, significant challenges remain.
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G20 Japan: Initiative on Human Capital Investment for Sustainable Development
Based on the G20’s past achievements in education and in close coordination with other G20 working groups and workstreams in areas such as health, food security and nutrition, human resource development, employment, women’s empowerment and digital economy, the G20 supports concrete actions to invest in quality education, with a particular emphasis on developing and low and middle-income countries, focusing on the following three pillars; (1) quality education for achieving sustainable development and inclusive growth, (2) education for creating innovation, and (3) education for a resilient and inclusive future.
G20 Initiative on Human Capital Investment for Sustainable Development
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G20 Governance of Africa-Related Issues
This report analyzes the focus of the G20 on Africa and its support for Africa-related issues, including its deliberations and decisions made and delivered in the years 2008-2016. Although G20 performance on Africa-related issues between 2008 and 2015 only showed slow, incremental increases, there was a significant rise in performance in deliberation, direction setting and development of global governance at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in 2016, the report says.
Research Report: The G20’s Governance of Africa-Related Issues, 2008-2016; by Courtney Hallink
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Learning to Love a Multipolar World
The only sane way forward for the US is vigorous global cooperation to realize the potential of twenty-first-century science and technology to slash poverty, disease, and environmental threats. Jeffrey D. Sachs argues that the rise of regional powers is not a threat to the US, but an opportunity for a new era of prosperity and constructive problem solving.
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What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries
Emerging markets and developing countries have about $11 trillion in external debt and about $3.9 trillion in debt service due in 2020. Of this, about $3.5 trillion is for principal repayments. Around $1 trillion is debt service due on medium- and long-term (MLT) debt, while the remainder is short-term debt, much of which is normal trade finance.
What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries
By Homi Kharas (Brookings)
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A Letter to G20 Governments
In 2008-2010, the Great Recession could be surmounted when the economic fault line – under-capitalization of the global banking system – was tackled. Now, however, the economic emergency will not be resolved until the health emergency is effectively addressed, and that requires coordinated global leadership – now.
By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown and Jeremy Farrar (Project Syndicate)
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Politics of Pandemic: Public Health Can No Longer Wait
The world is currently experiencing a massive public health crisis due to the COVID-19 virus. The virus had already created widespread death and destruction before the WHO declared it a pandemic on 11 March, and the situation has only worsened since then. Most parts of the world are under lockdown, mobility has reduced to its lowest ever level, trade has been disrupted, unemployment rates have risen, and thousands of people have died worldwide.
Politics of Pandemic: Public Health Can No Longer Wait
By Pooja Tripathi (ORF)
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Disease, Like Poverty, Does Not Stay at Home
The Corona virus should change global politics. The speed and scale of its transmission, and the severity of its impact is not, we know now to our cost, fake news. As the virus rapidly tracks people vectors world-side, the control of its impact is inextricably linked to the availability of resources and depth of governance. For these reasons, global leaders should focus on its impact among the most vulnerable, and in particular in Africa.
Disease, Like Poverty, Does Not Stay at Home
By Yonas Adepto, Karim El Aynaoui, Thomas Gomart, Paolo Magri, Greg Mill, Karin von Hippel, and Guntram Wolff (ISPI)
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The New Inequalities and People-To-People Social Protection
The lockdowns throughout the world are creating a new type of brutal inequality: between those who continue to have a steady source of income and those who do not. The latter group includes not just the already poor but the millions across the world who are now at risk of falling out of the middle class: laid-off workers whose unemployment checks will not cover the rent, drivers, small business owners, contract workers, performing artists, the child care workers at-home parents don’t need and cannot now afford. The latter are those, in the rich and in the emerging market economies at least, that provide the ballast, the invisible glue, that holds societies together.
The New Inequalities and People-To-People Social Protection
By Nora Lustig (IPSP) and Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development)
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The coronavirus as a yardstick of global health policy
To deal with pandemics there is a global security system and policy that already possesses the elements appropriate to a public policy, such as institutions, norms, instruments and a model of global governance, which has moved from taking reactive, exceptional and case-by-case measures (securitisation) to becoming a more preventive and systematic model of response (medicalisation). As with all policies under construction, the progress made by global health policy depends on the priority it possesses on domestic and international agendas, a priority that acquires fresh urgency with each new pandemic and gets forgotten whenever society’s attention wanes. This paper analyses how the COVID-19 coronavirus has put global health policy to the test once again.
The coronavirus as a yardstick of global health policy
By Félix Arteaga (Elcano Royal Institute)
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A Gender-Sensitive Response is Missing from the COVID-19 Crisis
Though the COVID-19 epidemic is a nasty equalizer in affecting people of all regions, races, nationalities, genders, and social strata, the impact is not the same for all. The crisis has exposed the gendered fault lines of structural inequalities, hitting hardest those who are already the most browbeaten, the majority of whom are women. To avert compounding structural inequalities, evidence warns against a gender-neutral response to epidemics or pandemics. Despite multiple commentaries and efforts on gender analysis, a gender-sensitive response to the COVID-19 crisis is missing.
A Gender-Sensitive Response is Missing from the COVID-19 Crisis
By Jamila Razzaq (The Brookings Institution)
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Improve Handwashing Access to Combat COVID-19
Medical experts and institutions tell us that a critical but simple lifesaving action to reduce vulnerability to COVID-19 is literally in our own hands—regular handwashing with soap. Public awareness efforts underscore the need for greater behavioral compliance. According to researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, “How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be at least as important, if not more important, than government action.” Yet when it comes to handwashing, the challenge runs deeper than personal routine alone.
Improve Handwashing Access to Combat COVID-19
By KE Seetha Ram and Roshan Shrestha (ADBI)
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Africa needs debt relief to fight COVID-19
Considering that the combat against COVID-19 is more challenging on the African continent than it is in other parts of the world, the authors of this Op-Ed call for a two-year standstill on all external debt repayments, both interest and principal, for low-income countries. Immediate debt relief would enable African governments to focus on the protection of vulnerable populations, bolstering social safety nets and support of the labour market and private sector.