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Bricsbat: US president-elect Donald Trump has warned that he would impose heavy tariffs on Brics nations if they created a currency to counter the dollar. Photo: Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images

Trump could bring a plot twist to SA’s G20 presidency

The US president-elect’s threat to Brics and regressive climate change stance risk stoking tension

South Africa’s hosting of the G20 is an opportunity to represent Africa’s interests. Photo: Aditya Pradana Putra/Antara/ Pool/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

SA’s G20 presidency a chance to reform global governance

Global financial reforms, action to mitigate and adapt to climate change, a just energy transition and ensuring food security should be central to its work

Presidents Xi Jinping, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Cyril Ramaphosa and Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared in person at the Brics summit, with Vladimir Putin discreetly attending via video link. Photo: Marco Longari/Getty Images

The geopolitics of Brics and G7

The world’s lines of division have skewed during the past two summits

Nigeria has asked for South Africa to back its bid to join Brics and to become a member of the G20,

Economic growth in G7 versus Brics: A reality check

It is imperative that social movements inside both blocs navigate their agenda

Eskom has announced a staggering loss of R23.9 billion for the financial year ended March 2023. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images)

Renewable energy company G7 fails in Eskom interdict bid

Eskom changed its rules, giving preference to projects that are ‘shovel-ready’ and would get new power on the grid quickly

Brics countries have expressed commitment to collaborate on confronting global warming, with rapid urbanisation in the five member countries.

What’s in it for the ‘friends of Brics’?

A bigger alliance will give the group extra economic heft, but it remains to be seen whether its members can speak in one voice

SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago. Photo by Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Swift action: Sanction-heavy future calls for policymakers to de-risk

The Reserve Bank has warned that sanctions will be ‘catastrophic’ to the economy, which is currently vulnerable to geopolitical shocks

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

Where does SA fit into America’s ‘new consensus’?

The United States is crafting a new foreign policy that keeps the economic superpower at its centre

No G7, no Phala Phala, no problem

No buffalo on the menu at South Africa/Namibia gala dinner

Will the dollar hit a Brics wall?

The architecture of the global financial system hurts emerging market economies but the alliance has yet to offer an alternative

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for the G7 group photo on the first day of the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau on June 26, 2022 near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

It’s time for the G7 to deliver on Africa

South Africa and Senegal, as AU chair, are attending the important summit of the leaders of the big industrialised nations

The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet will warm by 1.5ºC by 2040 unless urgent measures are taken to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. (Cynthia R Matonhodze/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

What developing countries need to reach net zero

Wealthier countries need to give emerging economies three resources: time to adapt, financial support and policy assistance

Zero emissions target: Illegal charcoal production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Emerging economies need to have a framework that will attract investment in clean energy. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP

Give Africa clean energy funds – IEA

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, says wealthy countries have a ‘moral responsibility’ to enable a just transition

Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience can improve the everyday lives and experiences of South Africans. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Parties divided on carbon trading system as UN climate talks end

One country pays for greenhouse gas emissions in another country and uses that credit for its own emission reduction targets — but accounting irregularities increased carbon…

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson hosts a virtual meeting of G7 leaders in the Cabinet Room at Number Ten, Downing Street on February 19, 2021 in London, England. The 2021 G Summit will be held in Carbis Bay, Cornwall from 11-13th June.  (Photo by Geoff Pugh – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Pressure on rich G7 countries to show climate leadership

The ongoing three-week talks ahead of COP26 are proving tricky in a world of virtual climate diplomacy

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Climate change will hit G7 economies harder than Covid, research finds

Countries with the biggest industrialised economies could see an average loss of 8.5% of economic value by 2050, according to an Oxfam analysis

The stage has been set for one of the most anticipated climate conferences to address global warming – and targets for the biggest emitters . (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Critical climate change talks raise the pressure for COP26

The stage has been set for one of the most anticipated climate conferences to address global warming – and targets for the biggest emitters

28 May 2021, South Africa, Pretoria: Emmanuel Macron (l), President of France, and Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, attend the launch meeting of the Initiative for the Future of Vaccines in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images)

France to join South Africa’s bid to increase support for Trips waivers at G7 meeting

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that South Africa could count on him to fix the inequalities associated with combating the virus