G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group

About Us

2016

The Group was mandated to identify institutional and market barriers to green finance.

2018

Remit was expanded to consider additional aspects of sustainable development and the group was renamed SFSG.

2021

Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors endorsed the reestablishment of the group upgraded to a working group (SFWG). It produced the G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap.

Public consultation for Delivery of a Common Carbon Credit Data Model by the CDSC

4 July – 12 August 2025

Under the South African G20 Presidency, the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) identified unlocking the financing potential of carbon markets as one of its three priorities for 2025 with a specific focus on data standardisation. As Lead Knowledge Partner for this work, the Climate Data Steering Committee (CDSC) Secretariat has prepared a Technical Consultative Note and draft Common Carbon Credit Data Model.

Responses are welcome and encouraged from within and beyond the G20.

For more information on the consultation and to submit your responses, click the button below.

Responses should be submitted by Tuesday, 12 August at 5pm SAST. Please contact secretariat@climatedatasc.org if you have any questions.

Document Repository

Input papers have been prepared by the authors as a contribution to the Group but have not been endorsed by it nor do they represent the official views or position of the Group or any of its members.

First Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting: Chair's Summary / 26 – 27 February 2025

G20 Presidency and SFWG Co-Chairs Note on Agenda Priorities / January 2025

First G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) Meeting: Co-Chairs and Presidency Summary / 16 − 17 January 2025 (Virtual)

G20 Rio de Janeiro Leaders’ Declaration

Fourth G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting: Communiqué / 23-24 October 2024

First G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting: G20 Chair’s Summary / 28-29 February 2024

G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration

Fourth G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting: G20 Outcome Document and Chair’s Summary / 12-13 October, 2023

Third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting: G20 Outcome Document and Chair’s Summary / July 17-18, 2023

Leaders' Declaration - G20 Leaders' Declaration Bali, Indonesia, 15-16 November 2022

Presidency & Co-Chairs Note on Agenda Priorities – 17 January 2022

Meeting Brief - G20 Chair's Summary Fourth G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting - 12-13 October 2022

Presidency & Co-Chairs Note on Agenda Priorities

Communique - Second G20 Finance Ministers Central Bank Governors Meeting – 7 April

Event Brief – G20 Sustainable Finance Private Sector Roundtable – 17-18 May

G20 Finance Ministers Central Bank Governors Meeting, 19-20 March 2018

G20 Finance Ministers Central Bank Governors Meeting, 21-22 July 2018

G20 Leaders Declaration, Buenos Aires, Arentina, 30 November - 1 December 2018

G20 Leaders Declaration, Hamburg, Germany, 7-8 July 2017

G20 Hamburg Climate and Energy Action Plan for Growth

Chair's Summary, G20 Finance and Central Bank Governors Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 20-21 April 2017

Communique G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, Shangai, China, 26-27 February 2016

Communique G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 15 April 2016

Communique G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, Chengdu, China, 24 July 2016

P1 - Enhancing Access to Concessional Climate Finance (IDB)

P1 - Enhancing Access of Developing Countries to Climate Funds: A Way Forward (IEEFA)

P2 - The Role of Policymakers in Mobilising Private Finance to Ensure a Credible and Just Transition in Steel and Cement (CBI)

Mechanisms for mobilisation of timely and adequate resources for climate finance (G20 Presidency of India)

Barriers and enablers of investment in climate technology (PwC)

Policy measures and financial instruments for catalyzing the rapid development and deployment of green and low-carbon technologies (ADB)

Finance for a Just Transition and the Role of Transition Finance (ILO)

Finance and Climate Change. A Comprehensive Climate Assessment of the World's Largest Financial Institutions(InfluenceMap)

Results of a consultation to understand the non-regulatory barriers in efforts to develop and scale sustainable finance instruments across Emerging Markets and Developing Economies in Asia (AVPN-ACN)

Tech-driven ESG Practices (FC4s - GDFA)

Synergies between sustainability and financial reporting (IFRS - GSG)

Sustainability-related Issuer Disclosures (IOSCO)

Digital Technologies for Mobilizing Sustainable Finance (Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance)

Raising 23 Trillion Greening Banks and Capital Markets for Growth (IFC)

Private Equity and Venture Capitals Role in Catalyzing Sustainable Investment (IFC)

Enhancing Environmental Risk Assessment in Financial Decision-making (Bank of England, UN Environment Inquiry, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership)

Improving the Availability and Usefulness of Publicly Available Environmental Data for Financial Analysis (China Green Finance Committee and UN Environment Inquiry)

Green Finance Progress Report (UN Environment Inquiry)

Definitions and Concepts (UN Environment)

Environmental Risk Analysis by Financial Institutions (University of Cambridge (CISL))

Greening Institutional Investment (PRI/UNEP FI)

Secretariat

UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub

The Italian Presidency invited the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to serve as the Secretariat of the SFWG. UNDP as the secretariat carries out the substantive and administrative work to support, coordinate, and collaborate with all members efforts and help bring thought leadership to inform the work of the SFWG as directed by the G20 Presidency.

For more information, please contact the secretariat at: sfwg.secretariat@undp.org