G20 performance on the environment, 2008–2023
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on health and well-being in order to improve compliance with its environment-health commitments. The G20 should continue to hold pre-summit environment ministers’ meetings. It should show strong support for the Ocean 20 engagement group, established under the Brazilian G20 presidency. Overall, G20 leaders should consider including more environment-related language in consensus negotiations and introduce compliance catalysts when crafting the communiqué. Compliance catalysts include introducing references to time-bound commitments, monitoring and reporting mechanisms, specific instruments to mobilise resources and partnerships, and engagement with civil society and the private sector.
sustainability. Also high, at 90%, is the commitment to raise public awareness of consumer waste. Lower compliance, averaging 54%, has come with marine-related commitments, including plastic waste. In this group, the commitment on researching marine waste and its links to human health only averaged 40%. Also low, at 50%, was the commitment to engage the private sector in reducing marine litter. In between, averaging 60%, are the two commitments that included targets to plant 1 trillion trees and to conserve 30% of global land. Of note, the beginning of a gradually improving compliance record was marked by the inauguration of annual meetings of G20 environment ministers under Japan’s presidency in 2019. These findings suggest the G20 should continue linking environmental issues with the sustainable development agenda and continue to raise public awareness of consumer habits that can reduce negative environmental externalities. The G20 could consider linking its environmental agenda with Sustainable Development Goal 3
The G20 should continue linking
environmental issues with the sustainable development agenda and continue to raise public awareness of consumer habits that can reduce negative environmental externalities”
CONCLUSION The global climate crisis calls for a more ambitious, elaborate and
compliance-anchored environmental agenda at the Rio Summit. Given the state of our world, the G20 members’ 70% compliance rate on the environment should be improved with urgency.
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