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G20, climate and vaccines at the center of the agenda: Joe Biden landed in Rome

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Rome is ready to host the G20, the conference of leaders of the twenty most developed economies on the planet. Vaccines, climate and health at the center of the agenda of the heads of state. The joint meeting of finance and health ministers is scheduled today to take stock of vaccines and the pandemic situation.

Health and climate at the center
The G20 tables will anticipate the issues of COP 26, the conference on climate change in which 197 nations will take part. The meeting between the world‘s greats will also concern the economic resources to be allocated. According to a 2009 agreement, rich countries should have earmarked 100 billion a year for the adaptation of poorer ones to climate change. It is one of the four environmental objectives relaunched by Cop26 that had to be achieved by 2020. But this was not the case. Question also re-launched by the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen: “The G20 must be able to deliver 100 billion dollars a year for climate finance to the most vulnerable countries starting as early as next year, not 2023”.

Biden to Rome
The president has already landed in the capital. Accompanying him down the stairs of Air Force One, first lady Jill Biden. With them also US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
The institutional agenda is full of commitments: from the meeting with the President of the Republic Mattarella to Prime Minister Mario Draghi. A meeting with Pope Francis is also planned. An important meeting for the first US Catholic president sixty years after Kennedy. Then also a face to face with the French President Emmanuel Macron, in an attempt to mend the rift linked to the Aukus pact, the agreement between France and Australia for the sale of submarines overtaken with the purchase by Cranberra of US vehicles, sparking a bitter controversy from the French government. Biden’s European stay will continue in Glasgow, home to the next edition of Cop26.

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Xi Jinping in videoconference
The Chinese president – who has not left the people’s republic since 2020 – will be present at the summit remotely. Other G20 leaders will not be present at the conference: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, also on video link. It is likely that Xi Jinping will also participate in Cop26 remotely. A decision that is also a political message: by choosing to attend remotely, the world‘s leading polluter may have already decided not to give more leeway on the key issues of the climate conference.

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