Overview
- Participating leaders approved a declaration at the South Africa–hosted summit, with Argentina declining to endorse over concerns about geopolitical language.
- The United States boycotted the meeting and condemned issuing a non‑consensus declaration drafted without its input, calling the move a break with G20 practice.
- The declaration calls to scale climate finance from billions to trillions, strengthen disaster early warning, support just energy transitions and ease debt burdens for poorer countries.
- South Africa refused to hand over the rotating presidency to a junior U.S. representative, and Pretoria said Washington should send someone at the appropriate level as the presidency moves to the United States for 2026.
- India’s Narendra Modi advanced six proposals, including an Africa Skills Multiplier, a Global Healthcare Response Team, an Open Satellite Data Partnership, a Critical Minerals Circularity Initiative, a Traditional Knowledge Repository and a plan to counter the drug‑terror nexus.