Publications
Funding Climate Action and COVID-19 Recovery by New Special Drawing Rights – A Game Changer?
Published: November 2021
This policy briefing, lead-authored by Dr. Matthias Kroll (World Future Council, WFC) and co-authored by Stefan Schurig (Foundations Platform F20), analyses on which way a sum of around $300bn of the newly created SDRs could be rechannelled from the North to the South in form of grants (not loans) to finance COVID-19 recovery and climate action.
The Nexus Report: Nature Based Solutions to the Biodiversity and Climate Crisis
Published: November 2020
The Nexus Report, lead-authored by Charles Barber (World Resources Institute) and commissioned by the Foundations Platform F20 and its partners Wyss Campaign for Nature (USA) and SEE Foundation (China) stresses the pivotal role of Nature-based Solutions in addressing the crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and global pandemics.
F20 Nexus Report.pdf (7.71 mb)
F20 Policy Briefing #2/2020 – Achieving the Paris Climate Goals in the COVID-19 era
Published: September 2020
Governments around the world are preparing for the continued fallout from the pandemic, while also developing economic stimulus packages to avoid a collapse of national economies and global markets. This executive briefing, produced in partnership with One Earth and the University of Technology Sydney, sets out the roadmap for a good (66%) likelihood of achieving the 1.5°C limit and shows that doing so will save trillions of dollars in avoided costs, allowing for a more rapid and sustainable economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.
F20 Policy Briefing #2/2020.pdf (2 mb)
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F20 Policy Briefing #1/2020 – Pushing the G20 towards a Net-Zero Emissions Economy: Country Profiles and Policy Recommendations
Published: January 2020
This F20 Policy Briefing is based on the 2019 Brown to Green Report that was compiled by Climate Transparency and actively contributed to by several F20 partners.
Aligning G20 Infrastructure Investment with Climate Goals & the 2030 Agenda
Published: 13.06.2019
F20 report to the G20 that was developed in cooperation with the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University and the Brookings Institution on aligning G20 infrastructure investment with climate goals and the 2030 Agenda.
F20 Report to the G20 (2019) G20 Infrastructure Investment.pdf (2.31 mb)
F20 Renewable Energy, Climate Action and Resilient Societies
Published: 04.07.2017
The F20 report, in cooperation with the French Think Tank IDDRI, is now accessible. The report “Renewable Energy, Climate Action and Resilient Societies: Accelerating the Global and Local Paradigm Shift” has been published today during a press conference in Hamburg (Germany). It’s now available for download.
F20 Renewable Energy, Climate Action and Resilient Societies.pdf (1.6mb)
F20 Annual Report 2021
Published: May 2021
F20 Annual Report 2021
F20 Annual Report 2020
Published: May 2021
F20 Annual Report 2019
Published: March 2020
Strengthening and shaping the F20 engagement in the G20 and UN climate track – our contribution to shifting the trillions for a just transition
F20 Annual Report 2018
Published: April 2019
From Hamburg to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Shifting the Trillions – Our Contribution to a Just Transition Foundations Platform F20
The concept of a ‘regenerative city’: How to turn cities into regenerative systems
Originally Published: Henry Stewart Publications, November 2021