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The thirteenth G20 summit took place in Argentina in November/December 2018. It was only the second time (after Mexico 2012) it had been held in a developing country.…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. Latin America is a region that has little weight at the G20 with only three of its twenty countries represented at the forum…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. Lurking in the margins of every G20 Summit is the issue of fossil fuel subsidies. Year after year, leaders quietly repeated…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The grass is greener on this side, but doused in pesticide. That’s how it feels entering the International Media Centre (IMC…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The walk from the working rooms of the International Media Centre (IMC) to the (all important) restaurant area, is lined with…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The G20 summit comes to life during a boisterous week for Argentina, and Buenos Aires in particular. The locals couldn’t even…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. On arrival in Buenos Aires to cover the G20 summit, it is impossible to miss the murals at regular intervals along the side…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. In the last few years we have entered a new political era: the era of populism. From Hungary to the Philippines, from Poland…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. Rarely do we talk about the environmental destruction that aeroplanes wage on the environment. This will not be easy to…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The philosopher Achille Mbembe asserted in late 2016 that the age of humanism is ending following the US and Europe’s descent…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. Climate change is an issue every country wants to address - well, most countries. The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement saw an…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The economic crash in 2008 devastated the Spanish economy and left the country in a six-year long financial crisis. However,…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. As we travel 7,000 miles to report on the G20 summit in Argentina, it is difficult not to get swept up in the sense of…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. For Argentina, November began with baited breath. It was to be a month that would go down in history, hosting an event the…
International Media Centre – G20 Buenos Aires Summit. The calendar of global summitry is at the same time static and flexible. The timing of some events – like the annual sessions…