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As Brazil’s 2024 G20 presidency draws to a close, a panel of expert speakers will discuss how much progress has been made on the country’s stated priority areas of fighting poverty, promoting sustainable development and reforming global governance, before reviewing the prospects for Brazil’s upcoming leadership roles in BRICS and the 2025 Climate COP30 in the context of ongoing shifts in geopolitics and in the role of the Global South.
This seminar aims to take a stock of the progress achieved in Brazil’s main diplomatic priority areas during its period of “holding the G20 pen” in 2024. Laura Trajber Waisbich of Articulação Sul and Ana Saggioro Garcia of BRICS Policy Centre will be joined by IDS Fellow Lídia Cabral to examine what the Brazilian G20 presidency has achieved under each of its three main pillars, namely (i) the fight against hunger, poverty and inequality, (ii) action on climate change and the three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental), and (iii) the reform of global governance.
The discussion will bring in fresh policy insights from experts who have been participating in the G20 process and related discussions in Brazil in different capacities and on different issue areas, including leading on thematic task forces under the T20 academic engagement group. The speakers will also place these G20-related dynamics within the broader context of the so-called “reconstruction of Brazilian foreign policy” since the return of the Workers’ Party to power in 2023, and assess the prospects for Brazil’s upcoming stewardship role in both BRICS and the Climate COP30 in 2025.
As we follow Brazil’s move from its “G20 moment” into its next global commitments, presiding over an increasingly complex BRICS and the Climate COP, this event aims to shed lights on the shifting geopolitics of development and the role of the South in general, as well as Brazil’s position within this changing international landscape.
Speakers
- Ana Saggioro Garcia (UFRRJ & BRICS Policy Centre/PUC-Rio) – joining online
- Laura Trajber Waisbich (South-South Cooperation Research and Policy Centre – Articulação SUL)
Chair
- Lidia Cabral (IDS Brazil Initiative & Rural Futures Cluster)
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