President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will travel next Thursday (7) to New Delhi, capital of India, where he will attend the G20 summit, a group that brings together the 19 nations with the world’s largest economies and the European Union. The Brazilian delegation will embark shortly after the Independence Day parade at Esplanada dos Ministérios. The executives meeting will take place on the 9th and 10th.
The summit is the culmination of the group’s activities and also marks the final leg of the bloc’s rotating presidency, currently held by India and which will be taken over by the Brazilian government from December 1. A series of meetings and preparatory and working groups are taking place, including at ministerial level between countries.
The official program envisages at least three thematic sessions covering topics such as sustainable green development; environment and climate; Energy transition; and Global Net Zero, which is the idea of net zero carbon emissions. Other themes such as inclusive growth; Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Health, education, infrastructure, technological change, multilateral reforms and the future of work and employment are also on the agenda. The event will also include bilateral meetings between various leaders.
Presidency
As with every G20 summit, there will be a symbolic ceremony to hand over the group’s rotating presidency, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Lula more directly involved. Statements from the Brazilian president are expected in the first two sessions and at the end of the meeting, when Lula will present the priorities and challenges of the future Brazilian presidency from December 1, 2023.
Attending an event in Rio Grande do Norte this Friday (1), Lula explained that the fight against various social inequalities should guide his participation in the summit.
“I go there to discuss with them something that bothers me, I want to talk about inequality. Gender inequality, racial inequality, healthcare inequality, salary inequality, the inequality between a person who eats 20 times a day and the other who goes 20 days without eating,” he said.
Brazil’s rotating G20 presidency ends in 2024, when a new summit will take place in Brazil, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The meeting is scheduled to take place on November 18th and 19th next year.