Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the Global Biofuels Alliance with other top leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden and other top leaders at the G20 Summit at Bharat Mandapam Center on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
The launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance in G-20 leaders’ Summit 2023 marked a watershed moment in quest of achieving sustainability and ensuring clean energy. With this, the world’s quest for cleaner & greener energy gained a historic momentum. With the support of 19 major consumer, producer & interested countries & 12 organisations, it has been launched on sidelines of G20 India.
India's G20 presidency has become a symbol of inclusion, both inside and outside the country. The theme of the summit is “One Earth, One Family, and we share One Future”. As G20 cooperation is essential in determining the course the world takes, the world leaders at G-20 Leaders’ Summit have reiterated their commitment to the G20 as the premier forum for global economic cooperation and its continued operation in the spirit of multilateralism, on the basis of consensus.
The leaders attending the summit include UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Chairman Kristalina Georgieva and World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina among many others.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a consensus has been reached on the New Delhi G20 declaration, and all countries will adopt it at the G20 Summit. In this declaration, leaders have agreed to act upon accelerating strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth. The countries have also agreed for materializing the full and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They will pursue low-GHG/low-carbon emissions, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable development pathways by championing an integrated and inclusive approach.
“We will urgently accelerate our actions to address development and climate challenges, promote Lifestyles for Sustainable Development (LiFE),
and conserve biodiversity, forests and oceans”, the leaders agreed in the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration 2023. The head of the states have also talked about improving access to medical countermeasures and facilitating more supplies and production capacities in developing countries to prepare better for future health emergencies. They are committed to promote resilient growth by urgently and effectively addressing debt vulnerabilities in developing countries.
Global leaders, without naming Russia, decried the use of force in Ukraine for territorial gain. Referencing the 'war in Ukraine', the New Delhi Leaders Summit Declaration said that 'all states' should 'refrain from the threat or use of force to seek territorial acquisition against the territorial integrity and sovereignty or political independence of any state'.
Unlike in a G20 statement in Bali last year, there was no explicit reference to Russia in the Delhi Declaration. In 2022, a UN resolution condemned in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
“Japan intends to work on building industrial value chains in the whole of Bay of Bengal”, said Japan PM Fumio Kishida at G-20 leaders summit.
Prime Minister Modi and President Biden at the summit pledged to sustain the high-level of engagement between their governments, industries, and academic institutions and realize their ambitious vision for an enduring India-U.S. partnership that advances the aspirations of our people for a bright and prosperous future, serves the global good, and contributes to a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific.
