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  • 19 Jun 2012
    When will the G20 lead?

    I have just reread an article I wrote for Ekklesia from last year’s G20 in Cannes, and while I sit here in the evening sun in Los Cabos with world leaders just a few miles away tucking into their Summit working dinner, I feel angry.

  • 19 Jun 2012
    G20: Slow progress at Los Cobos

    Los Cabos is hot and rammed full of federal police and offshore gunships and the military atop armoured vehicles. Late last night, when the US President touched down in the local airport, the town was awash with sirens and helicopters and outriders.

  • 18 Jun 2012
    Knocking on the door at Rio+20

    Across an area the size of an airport, large hangar-like buildings house plenary spaces, meeting rooms, press galleries, food courts, offices and exhibition spaces; Rio+20 is huge. 50,000 people have come. It’s the biggest UN conference ever, and expectations are running high.

  • 18 Jun 2012
    G20 needs to focus on the bigger picture

    I am sitting in the press pit at the G20 in Mexico and as the Eurozone and the election in Greece threaten to wipe development off the agenda here yet again, CAFOD’s economics analyst Tina Weller has quite a lot to say. So I am handing over to her for a few words:

  • 11 Jun 2012
    The right to food and why hunger is not inevitable

    This week in Los Cabos in Mexico heads of state from the G20 nations are meeting. Every year this meeting is crucial – it is a focal moment for discussion and action on economic and financial reform and improving the structures that feed into both, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and it is a moment when multilateral decisions and progress can be made on issues vital to the wellbeing and flourishing of the poorest, such as food security and development.

  • 8 Nov 2011
    Elephants in the G20 meeting room

    At the end of the G20, Nicolas Sarkozy’s frustration at the UK’s stance on a number of issues, including the financial transaction, or Robin Hood tax, was evident. During journalists’ questions at the final communiqué press conference, the BBC’s Paul Mason got short shrift from the French President.

  • 4 Nov 2011
    Fight against tax haven secrecy continued at G20

    Significant international pressure from an increasing number of policy makers is steadily mounting against the secrecy offered by tax havens.

  • 4 Nov 2011
    Rich nations leave big global issues undecided

    When it came to critical global issues, the richest nations on earth decided to decide later, says Catholic aid agency CAFOD, of the G20 communiqué.

  • 4 Nov 2011
    G20 failure to tackle debt ‘incredible’

    In the midst of another global debt crisis, the most powerful countries are still failing to regulate irresponsible lenders, says Jubilee Debt Campaign.

  • 4 Nov 2011
    G20 leaked draft weak on development, says CAFOD

    The development ambitions of the G20 are not evident in the draft summit communique leaked to the media this morning (4 November), says CAFOD.