What next for the G20? Prospects for Transition Finance under Future Presidencies
As the G20 summit drew to a close in November 2025, many South Africans noted that their Presidency has been face with unprecedented obstructionism and public criticism by the largest G20 economy, the US – which refused to send an official delegation to the summit. Archie Gilmour, Shandelle Steadman
et al suggest in this
ODI Global article that although the G20 was designed to address global financial crisis, growing geopolitical competition and conflicts have transformed it into a talking shop where joint statements and communiqués are argued down to the minimum level of ambition. Next year’s G20 – overseen by the US - is unlikely to reverse that trend, despite the fact that shared threats like climate change are only becoming more urgent.
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