SPEAKING NOTES

The briefing argues for a symbiotic relationship between the UN and the G20 to mobilize resources and political weight for the post-2015 development agenda. It details the G20's role in supporting the 17 proposed SDGs through priority areas such as financial inclusion, food security, tax cooperation, trade, and infrastructure investment. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of the Common African Position (CAP) and Agenda 2063 in ensuring that the global development agenda reflects African aspirations for structural economic transformation and inclusive growth.

• The G20 holds significant global influence, representing approximately 85% of global GDP, 60% of world trade, and 65% of the world's population, making it a pivotal partner for the UN in addressing security, development, and environmental challenges.
• The proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consist of 17 goals and 169 targets. The first 16 goals expand on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by adding dimensions of economic sustainability (including jobs and industrialization) and environmental sustainability (including climate change and ecosystems), while the 17th goal focuses on means of implementation such as finance and technology.
• The G20 has identified five priority areas to support the implementation of the post-2015 agenda: financial inclusion and remittances (via the Financial Inclusion Action Plan), food security and nutrition (via an FAO and OECD framework), domestic resource mobilization and tax cooperation (via the BEPS Action Plan), trade (strengthening the multilateral system under WTO rules), and infrastructure investment (via the Global Infrastructure Initiative and Global Infrastructure Hub).
• The African Union's Common African Position (CAP) serves as a unified voice for the continent's negotiations on the post-2015 agenda. It is based on six pillars: structural economic transformation and inclusive growth, science, technology and innovation, people-centred development, environmental sustainability/natural resource/disaster risk management, peace and security, and finance and partnerships.
• The CAP is a critical component for achieving Agenda 2063, a 50-year roadmap intended to make Africa peaceful, integrated, people-centred, and prosperous, specifically by prioritizing economic transformation to address a lack of inclusiveness in growth.

APA

Badawi, W. (n.d.). SPEAKING NOTES. South African Institute of International Affairs. https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Speech-Mr-Walid-Badawi-G20.pdf

Chicago

Badawi, Walid. SPEAKING NOTES. South African Institute of International Affairs, n.d. https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Speech-Mr-Walid-Badawi-G20.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{badawindspeaking, author = {Badawi, Walid}, title = {{SPEAKING NOTES}}, institution = {South African Institute of International Affairs}, url = {https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Speech-Mr-Walid-Badawi-G20.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }