Carbon Emissions
G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers will meet amid fractured geopolitics
The G20 finance ministers and central banks from the top ten economies gathered in South Africa, on Wednesday and Thursday. This meeting was marred by the absence of or reduced attendance of key members, and disagreements over the major issues of climate change, debt, and inequality. It has never been easy to agree on a statement when rivals like China, Russia and the European Union are present. But now the differences are more pronounced than ever and some finance minsters were preoccupied with their domestic politics and did not attend. Katsunobu Kato, Japan's Finance minister, will not be attending as...