Tag: G20

Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025

As the G20 prepares to meet in Johannesburg, experts warn that more than $70 trillion set to change hands will entrench wealth gaps and threaten democracy without coordinated action.

With the United Nations General Assembly underway, former presidents and prime ministers call for permanent polluter profit taxes, subsidy shifts, and fair financing for a just transition.

While billionaire wealth surged to an all-time high, around 165 million people were thrown into poverty during the pandemic.

Financial support from the G20 was in the form of money borrowed from public financial institutions, subsidies and investments made by state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

"We see the resumption of Japan's commercial whaling as merely a continuation of the Japanese Government's blatant disregard of international laws and treaties."

These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.

The resistance is real, strong and growing, and that cannot be denied.

Trump’s choice to seat his daughter at the meeting is causing the American public and foreign politicians to react across the globe.

The U.S. has dominated the world for too long and must learn to become a cooperative partner.