G20 summit in Hangzhou 2016
The 2016 G20 summit in Hangzhou was the eleventh meeting of the heads of government of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries . It took place on September 4th and 5th in Hangzhou . It was the second G20 summit to be held in China (after Beijing in 2005) and the third in an Asian country (the fifth meeting was held in Seoul, South Korea , in November 2010 ). The central theme was "building an innovative, strengthened, networked and inclusive world economy", ie a global economy that benefits all people and countries. The global weak growth should be counteracted; at the same time, the global climate protection goals should be achieved.
To the context
Before that, there were two 'Sherpa Meetings' (one in January and one in April 2016) and some 'Finance Meetings'.
In July 2016, a meeting of the 20 finance ministers took place in Chengdu .
The day before the meeting, China and the United States (the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases ) acceded to the Paris Agreement ; Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama called on the other countries to follow their example as soon as possible so that the agreement can come into force in 2016.
Numerous bilateral discussions took place on the fringes of the G20 summit. The heads of state of the BRICS countries (the emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) also met. For the British Prime Minister Theresa May , the summit was her premiere on the international stage; for Obama it was the last G-20 summit before the 2016 presidential election .
Chinese authorities have denied Deutsche Welle accreditation for reporting on the summit .
Others
The G-20 summit traditionally takes place in the country that holds the G-20 presidency at the time of the summit.
Germany took over the G20 presidency on December 1, 2016 and hosted the G20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017 .
Participating States
- G20 members
- Host nations
Web links
- Official site of the G20 (English)
- Airplane stairs heat up dispute between USA and China (spiegel.de September 5, 2016)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b FAZ.net September 4, 2016: Merkel meets Putin and Erdogan in China
- ↑ www.g20.org ( Memento from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.g20.org ( Memento from September 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b dw.com: Sieren's China: No risk
- ↑ FAZ.net September 3, 2016: China and America join climate agreement
