Brazil’s G20 agenda for 2024

The year 2024 will be a big one for Brazil on the global stage, as the country will host more than 120 meetings as part of its G20 presidency.

The Group of 20 is the premier forum for economic cooperation and dialogue among the world’s leading economies, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was an early enthusiast of the group.

In 2008, after a summit in Washington that marked the first time G20 leaders met at the level of heads of government, Lula said the meeting had been “historic” and that he was “satisfied and optimistic” about its results. At the time, Brazil hoped the G20 would replace the G8 (which at the time included Russia) as the world’s most important economic forum, with a greater presence of developing countries.

Earlier this month, the Brazilian government published a calendar of planned G20 meetings for 2024. As previously announced, meetings will be held in all five regions of Brazil. Three will be held in Belém, the Amazon city that will also host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in late 2025.

Bruna Santos, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute in Washington, D.C., told The Brazilian Report that holding meetings throughout the country could help promote the involvement of non-governmental actors in the discussions. It will also help...