What to expect from the final communiqué on global COVID-19 vaccine distribution, phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies and more
Progress is hard won at any G7 or G20 – a harsh reality reflecting the need for consensus among so many countries, some of whom do not like each other.
The G20 in Rome, which formally began Saturday morning, a day before the start of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, will be no different. Still, the immediate and pressing global environment and health needs raise the odds that at a least a small number of breakthroughs will be made by the time the final communiqué is published Sunday evening.
Herewith, my list of possible wins, ranking by likelihood of success. I am not counting the near certainty that the G20 leaders will endorse the global minimum tax. Most of the work on that file, by the G20 finance ministers and OECD, was done well ahead of the Rome summit.
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