The Think 20 Task Forces have defined their agenda for 2018. This includes the number of policy briefs they will produce, the main topics of the study and the meetings they will have during the year.
The experts that make up the Task Forces met during the Inception Workshop: Vision and Strategies for 2018 at the start of February in Buenos Aires. After the initial launch, the groups defined their Program of Work of the T20 Argentina with information about the main topics, the meeting agenda and the number of policy briefs they will produce.
The topics
The specialists will develop 49 policy briefs on public policies that will present positions and data on the main topics of each Task Force.
- The future of work for the digital age
- New social contracts for the digital age
- Global norms for new work relations in online platforms
- Teaching and learning XXI century skills
- Measuring the digital economy and its impact on labor
- Education financing
- Technology and economic development
2. Climate Action and Infrastructure for Development
- Infrastructure and climate action (with finance as the key element)
- Carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidies
- Urban resilience and climate action (with climate adaptation as the key element)
- Infrastructure for sustainable mobility and economic development
- Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
- Articulating global food security needs with climate change considerations through trade
- Articulating food security needs and their role in food security and nutrition
- Food security and food waste and losses
- Financing climate smart agriculture
- Gender Economic Equity
- Labor inclusion (focused on the care economy and entrepreneurship)
- Financial inclusion
- Digital inclusion
- Rural Women
- Gender Mainstreaming
- Cooperation with Africa
- Sustainable and inclusive growth
- Political and social environment
- Governance of G20 Africa cooperation
- Monitoring G20 commitments
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Sustainable finance
- National implementation of the 2030 Agenda
- Advancing G20´s commitment to a truly universal agenda for sustainable development
- Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation
- Protectionism 2.0 and the global trading system (incl. excess capacity)
- Mitigating the adjustment costs of trade and investment liberalization
- Moving the investment (facilitation) agenda forward
- Digital trade (incl. tax digitalization)
- Tax competition
- Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
- Social Cohesion, Global Governance and the Future of Politics
- Current transformation in domestic politics and their implications for global governance
- The challenges of social cohesion and inclusion for global governance
- The interaction between international civil society and global governance institutions
- An international financial architecture for stability and development
- Coordination of monetary policies
- Coordination of foreign exchange rates
- Capital flow data gaps and financial disclosure
- Strengthening the global safety net
- MDBs and balance sheet optimization
- Cryptoassets
- Migration
- Data needs to better understand migration processes and inform policy making
- Children and adolescent migrants and their access to education
- High skilled migrations
- Migration, gender and care occupations
- Regional agreements and the facilitation of orderly, safe and regular migration
- Alternative learning pathways in a mobile world
The meetings
The T20´s Program of Work also defines when and where each Task Force will have their meetings, which will be in addition to the work they carry out remotely.
- The future of work for the digital age
- April 18-19: Task Force meeting to discuss drafts with experts (London)
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- Climate Action and Infrastructure for Development
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- October (tbc): Department of Environmental Solutions Initiative at MIT (Boston)
- Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
- April 5-6: Workshop at International Food Policy Research Institute offices (Washington, D.C)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- Gender Economic Equity
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- July 9-10: Panel at the International Policy Forum (London)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- October 1-3: Panel at the W20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- Cooperation with Africa
- April 14-15: T20 Africa Standing Group Meeting (Addis Ababa)
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- July (tbc): High Level Political Forum (New York)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation
- May (tbc) TF meeting prior to the 1st Trade & Investment WG meeting (Buenos Aires)
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- July (tbc): Geneva Dialogue (Geneva)
- September (tbc): TF meeting prior to the 2nd Trade & Investment WG meeting (Mar del Plata
- Social Cohesion, Global Governance and the Future of Politics
- April 18 Vision 20 (Washington, D.C.)
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)
- An international financial architecture for stability and development
- March 12: Think 20 Mumbai (Mumbai)
- April 9: Italian Institute for International Political Studies workshop and roundtable (Milan)
- April 23: Scaling up Development Finance for the SDGs and the Paris Agreement workshop (Boston)
- June 4: Cooperation for Stability: Strengthening the Global Financial Safety Net (Beijing)
- Migration
- May 28-29: CGP Global Solutions Summit (Berlin)
- September 16-18: T20 Summit (Buenos Aires)