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G20 meeting begins in Bengaluru
New Delhi. The meeting of G-20 countries under the chairmanship of India has been started from Bengaluru from Thursday. In the first meeting of the Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group under India’s chairmanship of the G-20 group, it was decided to focus on the regeneration of areas affected by mining and forest fires. The conference, organized by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, is being presided over by the Secretary of the Ministry, Leena Nandan. The working group will have four meetings between February and May.
The first meeting, which started in Bengaluru, will continue till February 9, the second meeting will be held in Gandhinagar (March 27-29), the third in Mumbai (May 21-23) and the fourth in Chennai (May 26-27). The ministerial level meeting is likely to be held in Chennai on July 28. Several representatives of G-20 countries along with representatives of international organizations are attending the meeting with the aim of adopting an integrated, comprehensive and consensus approach to tackle the challenges of climate change. India’s chairmanship of the G20 group aims to adopt an integrated, comprehensive and consensus approach to address the challenges of climate change and advance sustainable development.
Representatives of G20 countries including Turkey will visit the memorial of earthquake victims in Bhuj
The theme of the first G-20 is ‘LIFE’ – promoting an environment-friendly lifestyle. Officials said that ‘Life’ is an important subject. He informed that a program on ecosystem restoration and biodiversity methodology will also be organized during the three-day meeting. The G20 grouping is an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major developed and developing economies. A group of G20 delegates is scheduled to visit a historical monument built in Bhuj after the devastating 2001 earthquake on Friday. The group is currently in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat for the first G20 meeting under tourism and three of the delegates are from Turkey. His visit comes at a time when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey and Syria a few days ago, killing more than 19,300 people and razing thousands of buildings.
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