What is in news : G20 environment and energy ministers meet recently concluded. India recently upheld its priority for climate protection at the  meet.

Aim :

• Focussed on three main themes
• Promoting circular economies, particularly in the textile and fashion sectors;
• Biodiversity and protection of oceans;
• Promote sustainable development by realigning the financial system.
• Place the ecological transition at the very centre of the political agenda, to reconcile environmental protection with progress and human well-being and promoting science based coordinated global response to pandemics.

President : Italy

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G20 MEETS: Annual meeting of leaders from the countries with the largest and fastest-growing economies. Its members account for 85% of the world’s GDP, and two-thirds of its population.