Official picture by G20 Italy Download the T20 Statement in PDF Climate change, biodiversity loss and sustainable growth are long-standing global challenges. Today they are even more crucial, given the crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, which calls for making the much-needed recovery in the global economy compatible with action to meet, exceed [...]
After the pandemic, it is key to avoid that we move from the COVID-induced economic crisis to a new financial crisis. The T20, through its Task Force on International Finance, calls G20 Economy and Finance Ministers for a renewed commitment to address this challenge by designing, and swiftly implementing, policy measures aimed to support countries at risk of debt distress, involve the private sector in debt relief, create innovative facilities to ensure debt sustainability, get ready for the digital money revolution, give climate risk analysis the due relevance considering its impacts on the financial architecture, monitor central banks activities that have extraterritorial impacts, and ensure transparency in capital flows especially when it comes to activities by State-Owned Multinational Enterprises.
Official picture by G20 Italy Full T20 Statement for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting, Catania, 23 June 2021 The pandemic has increased poverty worldwide. As estimated by the World Bank, COVID-19 has pushed back between 88 and 115 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, setting back poverty reduction by around three years. [...]
On 23 June Tito Boeri, Lead Co-Chair of T20 Task Force 6 on Social Cohesion and the Future of Welfare Systems, represented Think 20 Italy at the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial meeting that was held in Catania. G20 Ministers received from Professor Boeri the preliminary policy recommendations that have emerged by the Policy Briefs submitted [...]
How can the G20 contribute to building a better and fairer post-pandemic world? What should be done to put sustainability at the core of future policies? How to strenghten multilateralism and make it work again? Dozens of high-level speakers from all over the world came together to provide insights, ideas and proposals on the priorities [...]
People, Planet & Prosperity Global Policy Forum 22-23 June 2021 As we strive to emerge from the Covid-19 global crisis, we are working to call attention to saving lives, livelihoods and our planet with a set of evidence-based policy recommendations that will help countries respond to the short-term and long-term impact of the crisis while [...]
Delivering for People, Planet and Prosperity We are glad to announce the T20 Summit of Think20 Italy on 4-6 October 2021.
Commentary by Johan Swinnen and Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute Originally published on ISPI's website Humanity has made tremendous strides in reducing poverty and food insecurity over the last decades. Agricultural productivity growth and the modernization of food systems have played an important part in this process. Yet there are several structural weaknesses and [...]
Commentary by Nicolas J.A. Buchoud, Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force on Infrastructure Investments and Financing and Fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative Originally published on IAI’s website. The 2 trillion US dollars infrastructure plan unveiled in the United States in mid-April 2021 is just one among many illustrations of the growing role infrastructure [...]
As the National Coordinator and Chair of the T20 Italy, ISPI is promoting a series of 3 High-Level Forums which are intended as an international platform for debates on key global challenges and priorities for the Italian G20.
