Care underpins our world, enabling individuals to lead meaningful lives and societies and economies to flourish. However, care work remains undervalued, underinvested in, and gendered. G20 leaders have recognised the centrality of care in multiple declarations over the last decade, yet underinvestment, insufficient coordination, and policy gaps persist. This policy … Read more
The G20 governments face compounding crises or ‘polycrisis’ while delivering the green transition over several political cycles. The multilateral challenge can only be addressed by engaging the G20, allowing structural green solutions to be embedded into national development pathways. COVID-19 green recovery packages have helped the progress of the green … Read more
Like in many other countries in the world, in Indonesia, public and private entities alike use information technology to enhance the delivery of their services. Substantial amounts of data are created in the process-some of them precise, while others may be erroneous. Such inaccuracies require the attention of decision-makers. This … Read more
This year, 2023, offers political momentum for strengthening the global climate finance architecture under and outside the United Nations climate change regime. In November 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) marked a breakthrough on loss and damage with … Read more
Carbon pricing is an essential tool in addressing the threat of climate change and leveraging investment directed for sustainable energy. But it also poses challenges from an international trade perspective, particularly when paired with carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs). Several G20 members are already developing policy tools of this kind … Read more
India’s G20 presidency in 2023 is grounded in the theme ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (One Earth-One Family-One Future). One of six overall priorities of India’s G20 presidency is “to continue pressing for reformed multilateralism that creates a more accountable, inclusive, just, equitable and representative multipolar international system that is fit for addressing … Read more
Investment in digital public infrastructure offers opportunities for economic and social progress, but catalysing these and ensuring the benefits of a data-driven economy are widely shared requires the development of appropriate models of governance and regulation. This is important not only for the implementation of rights, such as privacy and … Read more
The basic tenets of climate justice involve recognizing that the impacts of climate change, while affecting the entire world, manifest in varying degrees and intensities across countries and social groups. Those least responsible for the climate crisis are potentially the most adversely affected, whether by the impacts themselves or by … Read more
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