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Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva attends the G20 environment and sustainability ministerial meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

G20 environment ministers back funding for forest conservation

Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil’s proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation.
 
President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it is a possibility.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says a meeting with Xi on sidelines of November APEC summit in San Francisco is a possibility

 
FILE - French Barkhane Air Force mechanics maintain a Mirage 2000 on the Niamey, Niger base, on June 5, 2021. Nigeriens are preparing for war against regional countries threatening to invade, three weeks after mutinous soldiers ousted the nation’s democratically elected president. Residents in the capital, Niamey, are calling for the mass recruitment of volunteers to assist the army in the face of a growing threat by the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, which says it will use military force if the junta doesn’t reinstate the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Niger junta accuses France of amassing forces for a military intervention after the coup in July

 
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak upon his arrival at Bharat Mandapam convention center for the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,Pool)

UK leader Sunak chides China after a report that a UK Parliament staffer is a suspected Beijing spy

 
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold hands as they attend the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

Group of 20 countries agree to increase clean energy but reach no deal on phasing out fossil fuels

 

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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden, right, shake hands next to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

Biden gives Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed a hearty handshake a year after an awkward fist bump moment

 
One of the millet-based dish is served at the international media center during the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. When the leaders of the Group of 20 arrived in host country India, they were feted by a classic Indian formula of Bollywood song and dance on the tarmac. Now as they tuck in to dinner, they are in for yet another cultural treat: dressed-up versions of a humble, earthy grain that's a staple for millions of Indians.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

From leaf crisps to pudding, India’s ‘super food’ millet finds its way onto the G20 dinner menu

 
U.S. President Joe Biden listens to the opening remarks of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi during the first session of the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,Pool)

Biden, Modi and G20 allies unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe

 
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, left, U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

G20 agreement reflects sharp differences over Ukraine and the rising clout of the Global South

 
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses a press conference ahead of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept., 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

UN secretary-general has urged the Group of 20 leaders to send a strong message on climate change

 
Policemen stop an auto rickshaw at a checkpoint as traffic restrictions and diversions are placed ahead of the weekend's G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India seeks a greater voice for the developing world at G20 but the Ukraine war may overshadow talks

 
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for a trip to attend the G20 summit in New Delhi, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to use G20 summit and Vietnam visit to highlight US as trustworthy alternative to China

 
A technician works on the top deck of a distillery at Bajaj Hindustan Sugar factory that produces ethanol, a type of biofuel, in Meerut, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Any fuel produced from agricultural produce or organic waste is a biofuel. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

What are biofuels and why is it so confusing whether they are a source of clean energy or not?

 
FILE - U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen leaves after attending G20's third Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBGs) meeting in Gandhinagar, India, July 17, 2023. Yellen is facing some deep skepticism from among the wealthy nations of the Group of 20 as almost two years of sanctions against Russia have deepened divisions within the group. As world leaders and finance ministers meet this week in India, fractures that have opened between some G20 nations may be more palpable.(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

War sanctions against Russia highlight growing divisions among the Group of 20 countries

 
FILE- A man on a bicycle rides past a billboard that projects Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the most popular among world leaders, in New Delhi, India, April 6, 2023. The Indian government has seized upon its role as host of this year’s G20 summit and mounted an advertising blitz that stresses India’s growing clout under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s prime minister uses the G20 summit to advertise his global reach and court voters at home

 
P V R Murthy, center, general manager at Oil India Limited, pump station 3, shows a part of a hydrogen plant in Jorhat, India, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Green hydrogen is being touted around the world as a clean energy solution to take the carbon out of high-emitting sectors like transport and industrial manufacturing. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

What is green hydrogen and why is it touted as a clean fuel?

 
Migrant labourers climb over a wall, newly painted in preparation of the G20 summit, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. As India gears up to host the annual gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, the capital city is undergoing an elaborate makeover. But for many street vendors and shantytowns dotting the city, the beautification of New Delhi has meant displacement and loss of livelihoods. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased

 
FILE - South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during the ASEAN Plus Three Summits (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 12, 2022. Yoon says he’ll tell world leaders about the need to faithfully enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korea and block the country’s illicit activities to fund its weapons programs when they converge in Indonesia and India for annual summits this week. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

South Korea’s Yoon will call for strong response to North’s nuclear weapons at ASEAN and G20 summits

 
A new China map shows the South China Sea with nine-dash line claims under Chinese territory and a new line next to Taiwan are seen on the map, at a bookstore in Beijing, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023.China has upset many in the Asia-Pacific region with the release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?

 
FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping upon the latter's arrival at a hotel in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. India is protesting a new Chinese map that lays claim to India’s territory ahead of next week's Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, exacerbating tensions during a three-year military standoff between the two nations. The timing of the protest is key, as Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend the summit of industrialized and developing countries. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

India and Malaysia protest China’s land claim in a newly published map ahead of the G20 summit

 
All India Democratic Women's Association leader Brenda Karat, speaks as during a 'People's Summit on G20" in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Indian police intervened to stop a meeting of prominent activists, academics and politicians discussing issues ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations next month that will be hosted in New Delhi, citing law and order issues, the meeting's organizers said on Sunday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian police stop a conference of activists and academics discussing G20 issues ahead of summit

 
FILE - Smoke rises from a coal-powered steel plant in the background as village girls get ready after taking a bath in a stream at Hehal village near Ranchi, in eastern state of Jharkhand, Sept. 26, 2021. The final meeting of climate and environment ministers from the world's largest economies ended without an agreement or joint statement Friday, July 28, 2023, despite pleas from leading figures for nations to show a united front on climate change as weather records shatter across the globe. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

G20 ministers reach agreement on most, but not all, climate issues

 
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, left and Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das, talk as they arrive to address the media after a meeting of finance chiefs and central bank governors of the Group of 20 leading economies in Gandhinagar, India, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

G20 finance chiefs end their meeting in India without consensus on the war in Ukraine