Carney and Modi then agreed at the G20 Leaders’ Summit on Nov. 13, 2025, to formally launch negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which had been paused during the diplomatic spat in 2023.
The European Union Tax Observatory proposed a new global tax on billionaires last year, and last month, the Brazilian G20 presidency asked its researchers to elaborate on their proposal.
President Joe Biden pledged a $4 billion contribution to the World Bank during his final G20 summit in Brazil. Global hunger and poverty were among the key issues discussed on the first day of the summit.
“The greatest honour of my life is being here in Australia but it’s also when I walk into a G20 meeting, I know that Australia has that fair ethos of looking after each other…”
Carney made the comment while attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 23, while responding to a reporter's question on the timing of his last conversation with Trump.
"Who cares? I mean, it’s a detail.
The G20, through its High Level Independent Panel and World Bank, has misrepresented pandemic risk to our governments since the COVID-19 pandemic to convince them to increase their funding for this “existential threat.”
David Morrison’s move from deputy minister of foreign affairs to become the prime minister’s senior diplomatic and international affairs adviser, while also serving as Canada’s G7 and G20 sherpa, reinforces the concentration of strategic direction at
According to Monash University, modern slavery is a global phenomenon, with 40.3 million victims and $354 billion worth of at-risk products imported by G20 countries in 2018—the year the act was cemented.
Strained Relations
Shortly before the G20 Summit in India last September, the Canadian government said negotiations for a trade deal between the two countries had been put on hold and provided no explanation.
In 2024, Putin was set to take part in the G20 summit in Brazil after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assured that "there's no way that [Putin] will be arrested" if he attends.
“Russia has the power and the measures to protect itself,” Erdogan told reporters on Nov. 19 at the G20 summit in Brazil, according to Turkey's Anadolu news agency.
Harper dealt with Putin numerous times while he was prime minister from 2006 to 2015, and during a 2014 G20 meeting, he reportedly told Putin to “get out of Ukraine.”
Inflation across G20 economies is projected to cool from 3.4 percent this year to 2.9 percent in 2026 and 2.5 percent in 2027, with most major countries approaching target levels by mid-2027.
This week, Trudeau said he highlighted concerns directly with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Brazil.
“I also responded to his question about the recent G20 summit that I attended.”
Takaichi said they affirmed the importance of continued cooperation between Tokyo and Washington under the current international situation.
The United States will host the G20 summit in Miami in December, and, signalling what American leadership will look like at that event, Bessent said the United States would "identify the lack of growth as the greatest threat to financial stability."
"Today, I met with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in South Africa," Penny Wong said in a post on X.
Albanese's last stop will be at the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi, with this year's two-day meeting centred on the theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future'.
