Europe applying pressure to G20 President Abbott on Climate Change
Europe is applying pressure on the G20’s President Tony Abbott to include Climate Change in the sherpa meetings and the upcoming November 2014 meeting agenda. Many scientists, business engineers and corporate researchers agree that Mr. Abbott’s “Direct Action” will not have desired impacts on climate change and does not address any of the key issues […]
IMF, Cruising altitude for the economy is the goal
In a speech at SAIS Johns Hopkins, Managing Director Christine Lagarde outlined in a frank discussion of the current status of the developed and emerging economies. Baring in mind that we have just come through the worst financial crisis in a century. Global growth exceeded 3 percent for 2013, with moderately better growth expected for […]
G20 Sherpa meetings proceeding
G20 News is reporting progress at the March Sherpa meetings at the G20. During the second day of sherpa meetings in Australia leading up to the November Brisbane Summit and the June meetings, the building of an Action Plan agenda for November is under way. Policies from the February Communique include, 2% growth targets, anti […]
G20 News to report from the UN
G20 News is proud to announce that its new home will be at the august building of the UN, United Nations Security Council building. G20 News will be in full working mode starting Wednesday March 19th. The United Nations represents what is best in all of us. The UN epitomizes international relationships, delegates, staff, the […]
G20 Sydney-Important Documents
The International Monetary Fund wrote a 23 page note addressed to the G-20: First paragraph of the Executive Summary and Full Text: “Global activity has picked up, largely on account of advanced economies. Growth firmed in 2013H2, driven largely by stronger outturns in advanced economies as final demand expanded broadly as expected. In many emerging markets, […]
Breaking G20 News: G20 concurs to raise growth target by an additional 2% over 5 years
The G20 agreed to “lift our collective GDP by more than 2 per cent above the trajectory implied by current policies over the coming 5 years”. This target appeared to be in line with expectations from the IMF communique addressed to the G20 meeting in Sydney. The IMF report suggested that growth could be “projected to increase […]
G20 Summit 2014 Expectations – Overall
Expectations for the upcoming summit in Sydney are a combination of wishes for emerging markets to get their countries in order and wishes for the US to deal with ramifications of further easing of its almost trillion dollar stimulus. Smaller side talks between countries are being highlighted as possible bright spots for the February 22nd […]
Japanese shippers are testing a wind driven cargo ship
Asahi Shinbum reported on January 27, 2014 that a ship was ready for real shipping conditions and open to the media for the first ever high efficiency wind driven cargo ship. The companies taking part were NYK – http://www.nyk.com/english/ – Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha and Oshima Shipbuilding – https://www.osy.co.jp/english/. Both were collaborating with the University of Tokyo. The sails […]
G-20 looks ahead to the Finance Ministers meeting in Sydney
G-20 Chair and President of Australia, Tony Abbott rolled out his goals for the upcoming Finance Ministers Summit in Sydney Australia. Infrastructure spending is critical to modernizing commerce and enabling better transportation of goods within countries. Digitizing global commerce will help streamline and simplify tax structures and provide for more efficient trade. Cracking down on […]