between generic commitments and lack of motion on local weather and poverty” | EUROtoday

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Some presidents, earlier than leaving Galeão, the worldwide airport of Rio de Janeiro, expressed a want: a stroll on Copacabana, probably the most evocative of town’s seashores, “the Arch of vibrant love”, within the phrases of the poet Vinicius de Moraes. Perhaps with the thought of ​​imprinting a picture of absolute and incorruptible magnificence within the reminiscence. At the conclusion of a G-20 that floats on fragile declarations of intent. Developed by authorities Sherpas, very expert at disguising full defeats as half victories.

The mountain – which right here is the Pão de Açúcar, the magnificent sugarloaf-shaped granite massif that dominates Rio – has given start to just a little mouse of generic, falsely shared commitments. Here they’re. Social inclusion, battle in opposition to starvation and poverty (which is able to draw additional energy from the launch of the Global Alliance), help for the progressive taxation of billionaires, measures for a “fair, clean and sustainable” power transition, international governance reform, pace in motion in opposition to local weather change in view of Cop30 which is able to happen in 2025 in Brazil, in Belém do Pará.

These are the primary commitments of the ultimate Declaration of the G20 in Rio, signed by the heads of state and authorities current. The purpose is “building a just world and a sustainable planet that leaves no one behind.” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, host, passes the baton of the G20 presidency to South African chief Cyril Ramaphosa, recalling the phrases of Nelson Mandela: «It is straightforward to demolish and destroy; heroes are those that construct.”

Lula and Joe Biden announce a major agreement in the clean energy sector with the aim of adopting a series of measures to promote less polluting energy sources, in line with the climate agenda. An agreement greatly weakened by the victory in the presidential elections of Donald Trump who repeats his mantra almost every day, “drill, drill, drill”, a hymn to oil drilling, corroborated by strong declarations on US disengagement in the green programs envisaged by the Paris Agreements .

Baku’s Cop29 falters within the face of the shortage of robust sign coming from Rio. There was hope for a political declaration that dedicated the key financial powers to rising support to growing nations in opposition to the results of local weather change. However, solely a generic assertion emerged from the summit.