Publication

This brief examines the financial stresses that climate change and a transforming energy sector are having on the German G20 Presidency. In light of the risks these phenomena present to global financial stability, the brief’s author argues that the energy agenda should no longer be part of the G20’s ‘Sherpa Track’. Instead, and in keeping with China’s recent insistence on energy sustainability, the agenda should be woven into the G20’s finance track NLT 2017. The shift, after all, would help the G20 evolve from a crisis response forum to a crisis prevention one.