A growth that aims to reduce inequalities: of gender, starting from female empowerment, of territory, of competence. It is therefore inclusive, based on social, economic and environmental sustainability, which makes multilateralism a cornerstone. With the great of the earth called to respond to the challenge of the ecological and digital transition. These are the common denominators of the work of the B20, which took place under the direction of Confindustria: the G20 of companies, a business community that represents over 6.5 million companies. The role of president was entrusted for the first time to a woman, Emma Marcegaglia, appointed by the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi.
The final meetings will be held today and tomorrow, after almost a year of work, at the G20 Business Summit, scheduled for Confindustria. The chair Marcegaglia will present the final declaration containing the proposals for the G20 governments, and will deliver it to the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, as the current president of the G20. The president Bonomi, the number one of the task forces, the ministers Daniele Franco, Elena Bonetti, Vittorio Colao, Roberto Cingolani, Luigi Di Maio will be present. And then the interventions of Christine Lagarde, Janet Yellen, Jeff Bezos are scheduled.
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The policy papers contain 32 policy recommendations, 93 calls to action, and 37 “kpi”, ie performance indicators, to measure the implementation and impact of industry proposals. These are some numbers of the final document and they will not be simple proposals from the economic community to governments: for the first time each recommendation has been translated into concrete, indicating two or three lines of action to be implemented immediately and measurable objectives from now to 2024. It is a change of action on which the chairman Marcegaglia undertook, who wanted in the governance of the B20, from the task forces to the International Advocacy Caucus, profiles of the highest level, able to give an operational contribution in changing the action in the different countries .
“This G20 will not be a catwalk, we have to make an impact and the conditions are in place to do so,” Marcegaglia declared on the day of the Inception Meeting, January 21, the day when the B20 works officially started.
“Reshaping the future: include, share, act,”: the slogan chosen was the reference point for the work of the nine task forces and the International Advocacy Caucus, of which John Elkann is co-chair. The Trade and Investment Task Force was led by Barbara Beltrame Giacomello; Finance and investments by Carlo Messina; Energy and resource efficiency by Francesco Starace; Employment & training Gianpietro Benedetti; the special initiative on women’s empowerment had Diana Bracco at the top; the Action Council on Sustainability & Global Emergencies, Claudio Descalzi; Health & Life Sciences, Sergio Dompé; Integrity & Compliance, Patrizia Grieco; Maximo Ibarra digital transformation.