G20 To Work Toward Tackling Global Poverty
Global South is ’most adversely’ hit by the food, fuel crisis due to global conflicts, said Indian PM Narendra Modi
At the annual 19th G20 summit scheduled for November 18 and 19, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, with the presence of the leaders of the 19 member countries, plus the African Union and the European Union vowed to work toward tackling global poverty.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched a global alliance to combat poverty and hunger that 81 countries have agreed to back.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the opening session of the G 20 Summit on ‘Social Inclusion and the Fight against Hunger and Poverty’. Speaking about India’s initiatives to deal with hunger and poverty, Prime Minister noted that India had pulled 250 million people out of poverty in the last ten years and was distributing free food grains to 800 million people in the country. He emphasized the need to address the challenges faced by the Global South amid ongoing global crises. Global South is ’most adversely’ hit by the food, fuel crisis due to global conflicts, said the Indian PM and G20 must prioritize their concerns and priorities.
The heads of the G20 meeting in Brazil released a leaders’ declaration on Monday that underscored the many problems facing the global community even as it urged action on armed conflicts, climate change and other major issues.
Leaders of the world’s 20 major economies called for a global pact to combat hunger, more aid for war-torn Gaza and an end to hostilities in the Mideast and Ukraine, issuing a joint declaration. The joint statement was endorsed by group members but fell short of complete unanimity. It also called for a future global tax on billionaires and for reforms allowing the eventual expansion of the United Nation Security Council beyond its five current permanent members
Despite the Brazilian president’s efforts to mediate ongoing wars, global instability is on the rise in a world increasingly overshadowed by armed conflict, mounting inequality.
G20 drew attention to the plight of those caught up in the fighting and highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war with regard to global food and energy security, supply chains, macro-financial stability, inflation and growth.
The writer of this article is Dr. Seema Javed, an environmentalist & a communications professional in the field of climate and energy
