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Montevideo, May 26th 2025 - 00:58 UTC

Tag: G20

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Lula urges developed countries to up their climate contributions

    “These trillions exist, but they are being wasted on armaments, while the planet is in agony,” Lula argued

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva insisted Tuesday that G20 developed countries should bring forward by up to ten years the climate neutrality targets currently set for 2050, Agencia Brasil reported. He made those remarks during his appearance at the Group's Summit in Rio de Janeiro. “To the developed members of the G20, I propose that you bring forward your climate neutrality targets from 2050 to 2040 or even 2045,” Lula stressed during a panel on sustainable development and energy transition.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 11:52 UTC

    Argentina clinches deal to sell Vaca Muerta gas to Brazil

    Caputo (L) and Silveira met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio

    Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo and his Brazilian Energy Counterpart Alexandre Silveira signed Monday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro an agreement whereby gas from Vaca Muerta will be pumped starting next year, reaching 30 million cubic meters per day as from 2030, which is the same volume that South America's largest country used to buy from Bolivia.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Rio G20 Declaration signed – Argentina adheres only partially

    The document also enshrines Brazil's achievements while holding the G20 rotating presidency under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this year

    G20 Leaders Monday signed at the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro a joint 85-item declaration in which they addressed the world's current challenges. However, Argentine President Javier Milei announced he would not be endorsing the so-called 2030 Agenda goals.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Paraguayan President hospitalized during Rio G20 with chest pains

    An ECG test showed some alterations so Peña will remain at the medical facility for now

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña was admitted into Rio de Janeiro's Hospital Samaritano Monday while attending the G20 Summit as a guest. The 46-year-old South American leader will remain at the healthcare facility pending the outcome of a series of medical tests after feeling chest pains, Vice President Pedro Alliana said on social media.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 21:46 UTC

    G20 Summit to push for regional vaccine producing coalition

    Brazil cannot lose confidence in its organ transplant system, Trinidade also pointed out

    Brazil's Health Minister Nísia Trinidade Tuesday spoke in favor of creating a regional vaccine production coalition to avoid an encore of the setbacks experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. She made those remarks during a press conference after a G20 Health Ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro ahead of next month's Summit, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Brazilian gov't and business agree on WTO reform ahead of G20 Summit

    Together, the B20 and G20 share a common vision of reforming the global trading system, Alckmin reckoned

    Brazil's government and businessmen gathered last week in São Paulo for the B20 summit, and they concurred on the need to push for world trade reforms ahead of the G20 summit, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro next month.

  • Saturday, July 27th 2024 - 08:28 UTC

    Chancellor Reeves at G20 ministers' summit: “Britain is open for business”

    The Chancellor will meet with G20 counterparts for the first time

    United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is expected in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting on her first international visit since taking office.

  • Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 09:52 UTC

    World hunger discussed in Brazil ahead of G20 Summit in Rio

    Tackling world hunger was added to the G20 agenda at the initiative of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Specialists from the entire planet are discussing this week in the Brazilian city of Teresina a series of suggestions to tackle world hunger to be put forward during the Group's Summit later this year in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, April 19th 2024 - 21:14 UTC

    Brazil's Finance Minister hopes G20 will tax the super‑rich to tackle world's debt crisis

    Haddad recalled that Biden's government was holding thoughts along the same lines regarding the wealthiest people

    During his trip to Washington DC to attend International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) engagements, Brazil's Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said he hoped the G-20 would approve later this year a new taxation for the planet's super-rich so that the global economy could adjust amid an unprecedented debt crisis, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Friday, March 1st 2024 - 10:49 UTC

    G-20 economy ministers fail to reach consensus due to ongoing wars

    “As far as the financial track is concerned, there was consensus on everything we discussed. We didn't discuss geopolitical conflicts in our meetings,” Haddad explained

    The summit of Economy Ministers of the G-20 in São Paulo failed Thursday to reach a unanimous declaration due to discrepancies over the ongoing armed conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, it was reported. ”We came very close (...) it was almost by a word,“ Brazil's Fernando Haddad said during a press conference. Brazil, which this year holds the rotating presidency of G-20 wanted to ”leave aside” all geopolitical tensions but to no avail.

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