G20 must promote fair climate governance

Climate change poses one of the biggest risks to sustainable development.

And while climate change forms only part of the overall G20 agenda, the group's meetings have become an important platform to promote the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, in particular after China as G20 chair launched a Green Finance Study Group in 2016.

The G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday and Saturday is being held just a couple of days before the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, and it is expected to promote adaptation to climate change and extreme weather events with a focus on infrastructure, education, capacity building and job creation, as well as developing a long-term pathway of low greenhouse gas emission.