EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
John Kirton Director, G20 Research Group
O n 18–19 November 2024, Brazil will host the G20’s 19th regular annual summit in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ meeting on 13–15 November in neighbouring Peru. It will be the first time Brazil has hosted the G20 summit. It will almost complete the G20’s first cycle of every country member hosting, with South Africa to follow in 2025. It will thus continue the four-year sequence of G20 summits hosted by countries from the Global South. After Indonesia in 2022 came a trio of members – India, Brazil and South Africa – from the IBSA summit, and most of the original BRICS of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. All four hosts are democracies. And Brazil’s Rio Summit starts a trio of summits that it will host, adding the expanded BRICS summit and the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Belém, both in 2025. Brazil’s G20 summit will be chaired by the highly experienced Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was Brazil’s president from 2002 to 2006, was re-elected for a second term from 2006 to 2010 and returned as president for a third term starting on 1 January 2023. Lula noted, during his last election campaign, that he was a founding father of the G20. Indeed, he left the G20 in 2010 as the most loved leader among his G20 colleagues, to return at New Delhi in 2023. At Rio, Lula will be joined by many G20 veterans. They are led by last year’s chair, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, who will be attending his 11th regular annual summit, having participated since 2014, and now backed by another general election victory in May 2024. The other long-serving veterans are Canada’s Justin Trudeau, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, France’s Emmanuel Macron, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, Türkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the European Union’s Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, and, should they attend, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. The relative newcomers will be the United States’ Joe Biden, Germany’s Olaf Scholz, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Australia’s Anthony Albanese and Korea’s Yoon Suk-Yeol. Attending their first G20 summit are Argentina’s Javier Milei, Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto, the United Kingdom’s Keir Starmer, Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum and Japan’s Shigeru Ishiba, should his party win Japan’s general election on 27 October. Also new is Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, president of the G20’s new member, the African Union. The invited eight country guest leaders are Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, Singapore’s Lawrence Wong, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Portugal’s Luís Montenegro, Norway’s Jonas Gahr Støre, Angola’s João Manuel Lourenço, Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu and the United Arab Emirates’ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Also invited will be the heads of 10 multilateral organisations beyond the full G20 members of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They are the Andean Development Corporation, Food and Agriculture Organization, Inter-American Development
Promising outcomes anticipated at the G20 Rio Summit Despite ongoing global crises, the Rio Summit is expected to make significant progress in reducing hunger, fostering equality and advancing climate action by prioritising procedural reforms and strategic alliances
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G20 BRAZIL: THE RIO SUMMIT — 2024
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