2025 G20 Johannesburg summit

2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit
20th G20 Summit
22–23 November 2025
Host country South Africa
MottoSolidarity, Equality, Sustainability
Venue(s)TBA
CitiesJohannesburg
ParticipantsG20 members
Invited States:
Denmark
Egypt
Finland
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Portugal
Singapore
Spain
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
International bodies:
AFDB, CAF, FSB, FAO, IDB, ILO, IMF, LAS, NDB, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, World Bank, WHO, WTO
ChairCyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Websiteg20.org

The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of heads of state and government held from 22 to 23 November 2025.[1] It will be the first G20 summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa and on the African continent.[2][3] The summit will cost the South African government R691 million.[4]

Presidency

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 deadline.

There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centred, development-oriented and solution-oriented presidency, in a fractured global geopolitical context, until it hands over the presidency to the United States on 1 December 2025.[5]

South Africa's participation in the G20 is guided by its four strategic foreign policy pillars (national interests, the African Agenda, South-South Cooperation and Multilateralism).[5]

Summit topic

For the G20 to make a meaningful contribution in addressing the polycrisis confronting the world, South Africa has adopted the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.[6]

This theme reflects South Africa’s intention to build on the efforts and successes of the last three G20 Presidencies of the Global South and to advance the development agenda.

Through solidarity, South Africa seeks to achieve a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive future. In an interconnected world, the challenges facing one nation affect all nations. By promoting equality, the country seeks to ensure fair treatment, opportunities and progress for all people and nations, regardless of their economic status, gender, race, geographic location or other characteristics. Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.[5]

Agenda priorities

South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.”[5][7]

South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.[8] South Africa will also be using its presidency to promote global debt reform.[9]

The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of two "tracks", the Sherpa and Finance tracks:[5][a]

High-level priorities

  • Priority 1 – Inclusive economic growth, industrialisation, employment and reducing inequality[12]
  • Priority 2 – Food security[13]
  • Priority 3 – Artificial intelligence and innovation for sustainable development

Participating leaders

Invited guests

The following country and organization leaders have been invited to the summit:[16]

Participating international organization guests

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The personal representatives of G20 leaders undertake the work of the Sherpa track, where they oversee the negotiations and discuss the points that will form the summit's agenda.[10] The Finance track is concerned with strategic macroeconomic issues. G20 member states' finance ministers and central bank heads deal with this track.[11]
  2. ^ The president of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader in one-party communist state) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition, and the current general secretary is Xi Jinping, who is also the Chinese president.
  3. ^ It is still unclear whether Putin will participate in the leaders' meeting in person. As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since 2022, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin,[14] with South Africa being a member of the court. If there is a risk of an arrest, a representative would be sent, as was done at the BRICS summit in 2023.[15]

References

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  2. ^ "Political events set to boost tourism in 2025". Southern & East African Tourism Update. 8 November 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
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  4. ^ "Lamola says hosting G20 summit in 2025 to cost SA nearly R700m". BusinessLIVE. Archived from the original on 13 October 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
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  6. ^ "2025 G20 Summit | Johannesburg to host global event". eNCA. 5 December 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  7. ^ "Saudi Sherpa Office holds first G20 workshop in preparation for 2025 summit". Saudigazette. 3 February 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  8. ^ Lebuso, Sthembiso. "Ramaphosa sets bold agenda for South Africa's G20 presidency". City Press. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  9. ^ Finnerty, M., Jubilee 2025: The new global debt crisis and its solutions, CAFOD, p. 4, published in December 2024, accessed on 1 July 2025
  10. ^ South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Sherpa Track, accessed on 1 July 2025
  11. ^ South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Finance Track, accessed on 1 July 2025
  12. ^ Opinion. "G20 summit an opportunity to fix ailing Joburg metro". iol.co.za. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  13. ^ Tembo, Patricia (6 January 2025). "G20 Summit sparks optimism for Mzansi agriculture in 2025". Food For Mzansi. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  14. ^ "Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova". International Criminal Court. 17 March 2023. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  15. ^ "South Africa will not invite Putin to next G20 summit over ICC arrest warrant". The Kyiv Independent. 16 December 2024.
  16. ^ "Invitees". G20 South Africa. Archived from the original on 26 January 2025. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
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