G20 Brazil 2024

G20 Brazil Summit 2024
G20 Summit will be in Rio de Janeiro 18-19 November
‘Building a Just World and a Sustainable Planet’
The G20 Summit represents the conclusion of the work carried out by the country holding the group’s rotating presidency. It is the moment when heads of state and government approve the agreements negotiated throughout the year and point out ways of dealing with global challenges.
The G20 Leaders’ Summit will be held in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of the leaders of the 19 member countries, plus the African Union and the European Union.

18-20 November
Rio G20 Summit Wraps Up: Focus on Hunger, Climate Finance, and Ukraine/Gaza Conflicts
(Wilson Center) The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro highlighted significant global challenges, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the climate crisis, and economic inequality. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva championed initiatives to combat hunger and poverty, securing support for a global alliance targeting these issues. The global energy transition also featured prominently at the G20 summit, where the need for coordinated action was emphasized, but concrete agreements on actionable policies were notably absent.
Tense moments at this year’s G20
(International Intrigue) So what to make of Rio 2024? Well, not much – with host Lula trying to push through a politically divisive agenda, a lame-duck US president, and wrecker-in-chief Javier Milei playing his role to perfection, people we’ve talked to in Rio said there was palpable disorganisation and division in the negotiation rooms.
The problem is, big global summits like the G20 are most useful when they end with a clear, organising message about the priorities of the world’s most powerful governments. The ‘perfect’ summit statement would give businesses and bureaucracies the confidence to make strategic decisions for the long term.
Instead, we got a summit during which President Lula grew so sick of the infighting that he published the final communique early, much to the chagrin of the delegates who were still trading barbs behind the scenes.
G-20 Summit Exposes Global Divides Over War and Trade
(Bloomberg Balance of Power) The summit communiqué popped up online after the impatient host, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, abruptly shut down behind-the-scenes squabbling among G-20 leaders over language characterizing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
That left a bitter taste, particularly among the US and its allies, at a summit characterized by disorganization and division among the leaders of the world’s largest economies.
What had been billed as a moment for “the West and the Rest” to show unity only served to display how quickly the guardrails are coming off the international rules-based order.
… Trump’s looming return hung over the proceedings, amid speculation about what kind of role the US would play in world affairs in his presidency.
Most comfortable were leaders of the Global South. India’s Narendra Modi and China’s Xi Jinping smiled and chatted with ease.
With Trump threatening tariffs on them, though, it felt a bit like the calm before the storm.
This was the week Lula was supposed to cement his status as the preeminent leader of the developing world. Instead, the chaotic summit he hosted in Rio highlighted his inability to bridge growing divisions between global superpowers. In a surprise anti-climax, Lula even canceled his end-of-summit press conference two hours after it had been scheduled to start.
Biden drifts off the world stage at Brazil’s G-20
(WaPo) … In the G-20′s joint communiqué, discussion of Ukraine and Gaza was kept to generalities, and Lula secured a signature win in the creation of a global pact to combat hunger and poverty. Wherever that initiative goes, it reflects the former labor union leader’s political priorities and was pushed through despite Argentina’s firebrand libertarian President Javier Milei initially trying to play spoiler.
“Although generic, it is a positive surprise for Brazil,” Thomas Traumann, an independent political consultant and former Brazilian government official, told the Associated Press. “There was a moment when there was a risk of no declaration at all. Despite the caveats, it is a good result for Lula.”
As Trump returns, those diminished expectations might make the G-20 a more resilient institution. The bloc gets maligned for not standing for very much, but no other grouping incorporates the West’s major players alongside Russia, China and the emerging powers of the developing world. “The G-20 may be the one format that actually withstands these turbulent times better,” Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, told me on the phone from Rio.
That’s because the G-20 is “low ambition,” doesn’t get carried away in the project of making “sweeping” ideological claims and provides a real “platform and space for actual engagement” between adversaries, Shidore explained. He added that it also “lacks the international bureaucracy and negative associations” that the United Nations’ system often engenders in U.S. conservatives, and certainly some figures within Trump’s camp.
“This chaotic world order is not because of the rise of the Global South,” the G-20 diplomat told me, suggesting that the emerging powers of the developing world could actually be exemplars of stability and pragmatism as Trump engages in a great power competition with China and trade wars with the rest of the world. They described the challenge of the coming years as one of “managing” — “it’s not conflict, it’s not confrontation, it’s not making a [political] point.”
Ukraine allies criticise G20 statement for not naming Russia’s role in conflict
Scholz, Starmer, Trudeau and Macron among leaders who say communique finalized by Lula ‘not strong enough’
(The Guardian) The final agreed text from the summit in Brazil was significantly weaker than that of the previous year, only highlighting humanitarian suffering in Ukraine and the importance of territorial integrity.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused G20 leaders of failing to act after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree easing Moscow’s rules for using nuclear weapons.
Brazil urges G20 leaders to move faster on net zero climate targets
Lula proposes countries reach climate neutrality by 2040 or 2045
G20 aims to boost chances of deal at U.N. climate talks
Biden wants more funds for developing countries climate policy
(Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday urged leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to accelerate their national climate targets, calling on them to reach net zero climate emissions five to 10 years ahead of schedule.
Opening the last session of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Lula suggested countries bring forward their targets to reach climate neutrality by 2040 or 2045, instead of 2050 as Brazil and many others have pledged.
The Heat: G20 Summit 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro and outlined actions for global development. The leaders issued a declaration calling for action to address major geopolitical, socioeconomic and climate challenges. They also affirmed their commitment to multilateralism and support for reform of the global governance system.
(G20 Brasil) Next stop for the G20: South Africa! This Tuesday (19), Brasil ends its G20 presidency with important progress made towards building a fairer and more sustainable world. The country officially handed over the presidency of the forum to South Africa, its successor in 2025.

Lula launches alliance to combat world hunger as Brazil hosts G20
Summit’s first day notable for frosty meeting of far-right Argentinian leader Javier Milei and leftwing host
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has opened the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro with the launch of an alliance to combat hunger, which he described as the “ultimate symbol of our collective tragedy”. … Lula recalled attending the first G20 meeting in the US in 2008: “Sixteen years later, I regret to say that the world is worse,” he said.
In a litany of the world’s current troubles, the left-wing leader included the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, the largest recorded displacement of people, extreme weather phenomena, and deepening social, racial and gender inequalities.
But Lula said the “scourge that shames humanity” was hunger and poverty, with 733 million undernourished people worldwide, according to figures from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

17 November
G20 talks in Rio reach breakthrough on climate finance, sources say
(Reuters) – Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20 major economies reached a fragile consensus on climate finance that had eluded U.N. talks in Azerbaijan.
Heads of state arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the G20 summit and will spend Monday and Tuesday addressing issues from poverty and hunger to the reform of global institutions. The talks must now also grapple with how to address escalating violence in Ukraine after a deadly Russian airstrike on Sunday.
World looks to G20 in Rio for breakthrough in climate talks
U.N. officials urge G20 leaders to break COP29 stalemate
(Reuters) – Diplomatic tensions over global warming will take center stage at the G20 summit in Brazil this week, as negotiators at U.N. talks in Azerbaijan hit an impasse on climate finance that they hope leaders of the world’s 20 major economies can break.
Heads of state arriving in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the G20 summit will spend Monday and Tuesday addressing issues from poverty and hunger to the reform of global institutions. Still, the ongoing U.N. climate talks have thrown a spotlight on their efforts to tackle global warming.
Keir Starmer promises Ukraine will be ‘top of the agenda’ at G20
UK prime minister to meet world leaders at summit in Brazil that Vladimir Putin has declined to attend
Starmer will meet world leaders on Monday at the G20 summit in Brazil, which the Russian president has declined to attend, sending his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in his place.
Speaking to reporters en route to the summit, the UK prime minister said it was significant that leaders were gathering almost 1,000 days into Russia’s war and said there had “got to be full support for as long as it takes”, citing the use of North Korean soldiers in the war as a particularly disturbing development.

16 November
UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries
Wealthy nations are yet to offer the hundreds of billions of dollars that economists say are needed to help the developing world cut emissions

G20 Social launches a global call for inclusion, democracy, and governance reforms
The Rio de Janeiro Declaration, emerging from the G20 Social, amplifies the demands of social movements for global justice, the fight against hunger and climate change, and the urgent reform of international governance.
The closing of the G20 Social was marked by emphatic speeches and the presentation of the Rio de Janeiro Declaration, a document prepared in collaboration with social movements from around the world. The event, held alongside the G20 activities, emphasized the urgency of reforming global governance to address contemporary challenges such as climate change, social inequalities, and geopolitical crises.

17 October
What the G20 has decided about bioeconomy – and what this has to do with your life
G20 member countries defined principles to reconcile development and sustainability with solutions based on nature, one of the central agendas in this edition of the Forum. Discussions took place at the G20 Bioeconomy Initiative, proposed by Brasil’s G20 Presidency.
4 October
G20 Ministerial Declaration reaffirms commitment to tackle environmental challenges

4 July
An unprecedented meeting: Sherpa and Finance Tracks meet with Task Forces to conclude proposals for G20 Leaders’ Summit
Meeting of Task Forces proposed by Brasil’s G20 presidency with the forum’s Sherpa and Finance tracks highlighted priorities such as reducing inequalities and combating climate change. …
Representatives from 29 countries and 13 international organizations attended a Sherpas meeting with the Climate and Hunger task forces and the coordinator of the G20 Finance Track, Ambassador Tatiana Rosito. The event highlighted priorities such as reducing inequalities and combating climate change and demonstrated the evolving track integration since the first formal meeting in December 2023, in Brasília.
30 June
Civil 20 Holds Midterm Meeting in Rio Ahead of Sherpas’ Gathering
The G20 Civil Society Engagement Group convenes in Rio de Janeiro to consolidate recommendations for G20 leaders on critical issues, including hunger eradication, just energy transition, gender equality, inclusive economies, and anti-racist initiatives. The event will feature international representatives and officials from Brazilian government ministries.

10 May
G20 Bioeconomy Initiative’s second meeting focuses on dialogue between traditional knowledge and contemporary science
According to a recent international World Business Council for Sustainable Development report, bioeconomy based on ancestral knowledge offers the opportunity of raising trillions of dollars in revenue. The Initiative’s second meeting focused on an unprecedented discussion of the relevance of knowledge—ranging from oral traditions to the most recent advances in contemporary science—to bioeconomy.
The priority of the meeting was discussing the role of science, technology, research, innovation and traditional knowledge to bioeconomy, as part of a multidisciplinary discussion that is aligned with the holistic model already advanced by Brasil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva. This model involves seeking out and implementing solutions that were presented by Silva at the opening of the meeting on Tuesday, in Brasília. Another crucial topic was overcoming the false opposition that has been established between bioenergy, food and food security.