US President Joe Biden has expressed satisfaction with the resolutions of the G20 summit on climate protection, the corona pandemic and economic policy. The meeting brought “tangible progress” in these areas, Biden told journalists in Rome on Sunday. This is also due to the commitment of Washington. The G20 summit has once again shown the “power of America” if it participates and works with its allies.
At the same time, Biden said he was “disappointed” with Russia and China, whose heads of state Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were not in Rome and were only switched on via video. At the G20 meeting, Russia and China “basically did not appear in terms of any commitments to deal with climate change,” said Biden.
Global minimum tax for businesses
“There is a reason people should be disappointed about it, I found it disappointing myself,” added the US President. Nevertheless, in Rome it was possible to decide on “a number of things”.
At the summit in Rome, the G20 countries had found their way back to joint action after years of diplomatic standstill. The most concrete result was the decision to introduce a global minimum tax for companies. In the difficult debate about the climate goals, the G20 group found a compromise, which, however, fell short of the expectations of Western countries. (AFP)