The Group of 20 (G20) Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting 2025 is one of the ministerial meetings organized in the run-up to the G20 Leaders’ Summit 2025, which will be hosted by South Africa in November 2025.
South Africa holds the G20 Presidency from 1 December 2024 to 30 November 2025. South Africa will focus its presidency on the theme, ‘Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability,’ with an emphasis on building partnerships across all sectors of society to realize the transformative process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs and ensuring that no one is left behind.
Each G20 Presidency includes the organization of ministerial meetings on each of the main focus areas of the forum. These meetings are important opportunities to discuss and further develop issues of international relevance and to build consensus around specific shared deliverables. The ministerial meetings are organized independently from the Summit, where the Heads of State and Government endorse some of the key outcomes achieved by the ministers.
In the G20 Working Groups and Task Forces, South Africa aims to elevate:
- strengthening disaster resilience and response;
- ensuring debt sustainability for low-income countries (LICs);
- mobilizing finance for a just energy transition, including increasing the quality and quantity of climate finance flows to developing countries; and
- harnessing critical minerals for inclusive growth and sustainable development.
The G20 is made up of 19 countries and the EU. The 19 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the Republic of Korea, Türkiye, the UK, and the US.
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DATE
9 October 2025
LOCATION
Kirstenbosch, South Africa
