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DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Philemon Yang, President of the General Assembly:
“As we advance the implementation of the Pact of the Future, the Group of 20 will be critical to ensuring that inequities are addressed, more resources are provided and better terms for development lending are negotiated.”
4. Wide shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Group of 20 Sherpa:
“The G20, as the world's largest economies, holds a pivotal role in keeping the 1.5 degree temperature rise limit within the reach. The South African G20 presidencies offers an opportunity to explore the collective actions to support a successful COP30. We must have foster the innovative partnerships, such as the Just the Energy Transition Partnership, to accelerate the a swift and equitable transition to a renewable future.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zane Dangor, Group of 20 Sherpa of South Africa:
“Through solidarity, we seek to achieve a future that is people centred, development orientated and inclusive. In an interconnected world, the challenges faced by one nation affect all of us. It affects all nations. By advancing equality, we seek to ensure fair treatment opportunities and the advancement of all individuals, peoples and nations, irrespective of the economic status, gender, race, geographic location or any other characteristics. With sustainability, we seek to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Zane Dangor, Group of 20 Sherpa of South Africa:
“We will be working to strengthen disaster resilience and responses. We are also focusing on means to ensure debt sustainability for low income countries. And here we are particularly focused on looking at the cost of capital for African and other developing countries, as we've been pointed earlier. The aim is to develop a comprehensive strategy to assess why we have significant cost of capital for some countries in a manner that inhibits their development potential. We also seek to mobilize finance for just energy transition. We've put on the agenda as well the need to harness critical minerals for inclusive growth and sustainable development.”
10. Wide shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zane Dangor, Group of 20 Sherpa of South Africa:
“We welcome the African Union's inclusion in the G20, which is an important opportunity to amplify Africa's voice in global economic governance, while ensuring that the development priorities of the African continent and the global South find expression firmly and permanently on to the agenda of the G20.”
12. Wide shot, conference room
The President of the General Assembly Philemon Yang, said, “As we advance the implementation of the Pact of the Future, the Group of 20 will be critical to ensuring that inequities are addressed, more resources are provided and better terms for development lending are negotiated.”
An informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing by the G20 Sherpa of South Africa was held today (24 Mar) in New York.
Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Group of 20 Sherpa said, “The G20, as the world's largest economies, holds a pivotal role in keeping the 1.5 degree temperature rise limit within the reach.”
“The South African G20 presidencies offers an opportunity to explore the collective actions to support a successful COP30,” Li said, reiterating that “we must have foster the innovative partnerships, such as the Just the Energy Transition Partnership, to accelerate the a swift and equitable transition to a renewable future.”
The theme for the upcoming G20 meeting is Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability.
For his role as Group of 20 Sherpa of South Africa, Zane Dangor told the delegates that “through solidarity, we seek to achieve a future that is people centred, development orientated and inclusive.”
He continued, “In an interconnected world, the challenges faced by one nation affect all of us. It affects all nations,” adding that “by advancing equality, we seek to ensure fair treatment opportunities and the advancement of all individuals, peoples and nations, irrespective of the economic status, gender, race, geographic location or any other characteristics.”
“With sustainability, we seek to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs,” the South African official said.
Dangor added, “We will be working to strengthen disaster resilience and responses. We are also focusing on means to ensure debt sustainability for low-income countries.”
He futher explained that there will be particular focus on looking at the cost of capital for African and other developing countries. “The aim is to develop a comprehensive strategy to assess why we have significant cost of capital for some countries in a manner that inhibits their development potential,” Dangor explained.
He continued, “We also seek to mobilize finance for just energy transition. We've put on the agenda as well the need to harness critical minerals for inclusive growth and sustainable development.”
The Group of 20 Sherpa of South Africa welcomed the African Union's inclusion in the G20, “which is an important opportunity to amplify Africa's voice in global economic governance, while ensuring that the development priorities of the African continent and the global South find expression firmly and permanently on to the agenda of the G20.”
The Group of Twenty (G20), is an intergovernmental economic forum comprising 19 countries and two regional unions - the European Union (EU), and recently the African Union (AU). It represent 85 per cent of the global economy, 75 per cent of world trade and 67 per cent of the global population.
South Africa will hold the G20 Presidency from 1 December 2024 to 30 November 2025.
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