The Rio+20 Summit takes place against a backdrop of a changing global landscape, an international economic crisis, rising global population levels, increasing global resource use and, despite all the progress, an unacceptable level of poverty.
As world waits anxiously for the true dawn of the global economic recovery, restoring stable growth has become the main topic at the ongoing Group of 20 (G20) summit. And to make this happen, it is more imperative than any other time for fair trade to be maintained.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and French President Francois Hollande met Monday on the sidelines of the G20 summit, agreeing to continue to advance the all-round strategic partnership.
President Hu attends G20 summit in Los Cabos.
The leaders of BRICS nations met here Monday and agreed to boost cooperation within the group of five major emerging economies.
Despite tough economic times including the euro zone crisis and slower growth from emerging economies, business leaders on Monday pressed the world's governments to focus on promoting trade and investment, which they say is the lifeblood of the global economy.
The BRICS countries said Monday that they're considering setting up a foreign-exchange reserve pool and a currency-swap arrangement as financial problems threaten to spread across the global economy.
Chinese President Hu Jintao met his French counterpart Francois Hollande here Monday on the sidelines of a summit of the Group of Twenty.
China announced Monday that it will contribute $43 billion to the latest round of the $430 billion resources increase to the IMF at the G20 summit. Hu calls for cooperation to ensure growth
The seventh Leaders' Summit of the Group of Twenty opened in Los Cabos, a coastalresort in Mexico, shortly after 3 pm, local time, Monday.
The Group of Twenty (G20) started a two-day summit in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos on Monday to sort out risks to global growth and find ways to keep the world economic recovery on track.
The Group of Twenty (started a two-day summit in the Mexican resort of Los Cabos on Monday to sort out risks to global growth and find ways to keep the world economic recovery on track.