“Energy in the G20 finance track”

As China has begun to refocus the G20 energy agenda on sustainability, Germany should use its upcoming presidency to further boost the importance of energy within the intergovernmental institution, writes Andreas Kraemer in a policy brief for Canada-based think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). “Now Germany, host of the 2017 G20 summit, has an opportunity — and duty, along with the required credibility — to complete that shift,” for example by transferring the topic energy into the more important finance track (currently in ‘Sherpa track’), holding a G20 joint climate and energy ministers meeting and “focusing on G20 deep decarbonisation and energy transformation strategies.”  

Read the policy brief in English here.