Second meeting of Working Group on Environment and Climate Sustainability under India's G20 chairmanship begins

Tags: Environment

The second meeting of the Working Group on Environment and Climate Sustainability started on 27 March and it is a three-day meeting.

An Overview of the News

• This meeting is being held at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• At the beginning of the meeting, G-20 member countries made a presentation on best practices for water resource management.
• The event was attended by around 130 delegates from G20 member states, 11 invited countries and 14 international organisations..
• The meeting focuses on several thematic areas, including halting land degradation, accelerating ecosystem restoration and enriching biodiversity, encouraging resource efficiency and the circular economy, and promoting a sustainable and climate-resilient blue economy.

About the G20

• It is an international forum of the world's leading economies established in 1999.
• Its primary objective is to promote international financial stability and sustainable economic growth.
• The G20 serves as a forum to discuss and coordinate policies related to a wide range of economic and financial issues such as trade, investment, employment, energy and climate change.