Info Session: F20 Climate Solutions Forum 2025

Learn how to engage at the F20 Climate Solutions Forum 2025

We’re excited to invite you to our info event for the F20 CSF25! This is your chance to learn how to get involved in our Climate Solutions Forum, whether it’s through co-hosting, organizing side events, or exploring other opportunities to make an impact.

The F20 CSF25 will take place on the 27th and 28th of May in Cape Town.

We’ll also dive deeper into what the CSF is all about and how we can work together to make it a success. Let’s connect and collaborate in this online meeting, we can’t wait to see you there!

More Details on the CSF:

With the upcoming G20 presidency hosted by South Africa under the theme ‘Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainable Development,’ the 2025 F20 Climate Solutions Forum offers a unique opportunity to shape an agenda that accelerates the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and advances Africa’s priorities in the G20 dialogue, by showcasing solutions and connecting actors across sectors and providing a stage for philanthropy and foundations.

Key Objectives in 2025:

® Inspire transformational partnerships.

® Explore actionable solutions

® Amplify the voice of philanthropy from the Global South

® Strategize around F20’s annual policy recommendations

® Enable knowledge exchange

Expected Attendance:

~200 participants per day.

® Philanthropy and foundation leaders

® Policymakers and G20 engagement groups

® Academia

® Youth, CSOs

® Private sector actors

® Finance actors

Potential Thematic Blocks:

® Just Energy Transitions

® Intersectional Inequalities and Social Justice in Climate Action

® Reforming International Financial Architecture and Debt Reform

® Biodiversity Conservation and Food Security

Thematic Focus for 2025

South Africa’s G20 priorities are inclusive economic growth; industrialisation, employment, and reduced inequality; food security as well as artificial intelligence, data governance and innovation for sustainable development. The 2025 Climate Solutions Forum will incorporate these themes while emphasising the intersection of social justice and development with climate action.

Format

The Climate Solutions Forum is designed to be an interactive, participatory event that encourages meaningful dialogue and practical outcomes. It will include main sessions, side events and networking opportunities.

Location: South Africa

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025