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São Paulo (SP) 28/02/2024 - Presidente do BID, Ilan Goldfajn participa do painel, Inovação Financeira para o Clima e Desenvolvimento.
Foto: Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil
Economy

IDB, Brazil’s Central Bank sign agreement to support green investments

According to Ilan Goldfajn, $3.4 billion will be offered in derivatives contracts that will be passed on from the Central Bank to Brazilian financial institutions.

Rio de Janeiro (RJ) 20/02/2024 – O embaixador Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio, secretário de Assuntos Econômicos e Financeiros do Ministério das Relações Exteriores e Sherpa do G20 Brasil, fala à imprensa sobre a  Reunião de Chanceleres do G20, na Marina da Glória. Foto: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil
International

UN reform: one of Brazil's priorities at G20 meeting

Brazil will emphasize the urgent need to restructure global governance and ensure the availability of peace-building mechanisms.The country assumed the rotating presidency of the G20 on December 1, 2023, and will continue in this role until November 30, 2024.

Brasília, DF 13/12/2023 O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva abre a sessão conjunta da Trilha de Sherpas e de Finanças do G20, no Palácio Itamaraty. O ministro da Fazenda, Fernando Haddad, e o presidente do Banco Central, Roberto Campos Neto,   participaram do encontro.Foto: Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/ Agência Brasil
Politics

At the helm of G20, President Lula pledges to reduce global inequality

He advocated the creation of international tax mechanisms to help finance sustainable development and reduce the inequality among nations. The motto of the Brazilian presidency is “Building a just world and a sustainable planet.”

12/10/2023, O ministro da Fazenda, Fernando Haddad, durante reunião do FMI em Marrocos. Foto:Diogo Zacarias/MF
Economy

As G20 president, Brazil plans to make progress on taxing the richest

Finance Minister Fernando Haddad gave a speech in Marrakech, at an event held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank. Reforming multilateral banks and ecology will also be among the priorities.

Nova York, EUA, 19.09.2023 - Presidente Lula discursa na abertura do Debate Geral da 78º Sessão da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas, em Nova York. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
International

Lula says 2030 Agenda may be UN’s “biggest failure”

Opening the general debate of heads of state at the 78th UN General Assembly in New York, he said that inequality is the main challenge facing humanity, and, in order to overcome it, “hunger, poverty, war, disrespect for human beings” should inspire indignation among leaders.