economy
G-20 Summit 2025 and Global Challenges
Johannesburg made plain that the agenda of global governance is shifting: development, equity and climate resilience have moved higher up the global list of priorities, driven by the moral and economic urgency felt in the Global South. The summit also revealed a fragile architecture — the G-20 can still produce consensus statements, but the absence of a top leader from a superpower (the U.S.) and other partial delegations changes how that consensus will be implemented and perceived.
