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G20 Meetings of Environment Ministers

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2025: October 16-17, Cape Town, South Africa

• G20 climate and environmental sustainability ministers
• Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group: Chair's Summary, published October 22, 2025
• Cape Town Ministerial Declaration on Crimes that Affect the Environment, published October 22, 2025
• Cape Town Ministerial Declaration on Air Quality, published October 22, 2025

2024: October 24, Washington DC

• Statement issued by G20 foreign, finance and environment and climate change ministers and central bank governors at the conclusion fo the G20 Task Force on a Global Mobilization Against Climate Change
• Chair's Statement of the Brazilian G20 Presidency

2024: October 3, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• G20 climate and sustainability ministers: declaration
• Chair's Statement of the Brazilian G20 Presidency, October 3, 2024

2023: July 28, Chennai, India

• G20 Environment and Climate Ministers' Meeting: Outcome Document and Chair's Summary with annex on Chennai High Level Principles for a Sustainable and Resilient Blue/Ocean-Based Economy
• Presidency Documents
• Presidency's Gandhinagar Implementation Roadmap (GIR) And Gandhinagar Information Platform (GIP) For strengthening the G20 Global Land Initiative [pdf]
• Compendium of Best Practices on Restoration of Mining Affected Areas [pdf]
• Compendium of Best Practices on Restoration of Forest Fire Affected Areas [pdf]
• Best Practices for Water Management [pdf]
• Technical Study on Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable And Resilient Blue Economy [pdf]
• G20 Report on Actions Against Marine Plastic Litter – Fifth Information Sharing Based On G20 Implementation Framework [pdf]
• Knowledge Exchange on Circular Economy in Steel Sector [pdf]
• Knowledge Exchange on Extended Producer Responsibility for Circular Economy [pdf]
• Knowledge Exchange on Circular Bioeconomy [pdf]
• Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Industry Coalition (RECEIC) [pdf]

2022: August 31, Bali

Joint Environment and Climate Ministerial Meeting: Chair's summary (published September 8, 2022)

2021: July 22-23, Naples, Italy

• Environment ministers, July 22
• Environment ministers meeting on July 22: Communiqué
• Climate and energy ministers, July 23
• G20 Energy-Climate joint Ministerial Communiqué, July 23 (published on July 25)
• Annexes G20 Joint Energy and Climate 2021, July 23 (published on July 25)
• Presidency Statement towards the G20 Leaders Summit, July 23 (published on July 25)
• G20 Presidency Statement, July 23 (published on July 25)
• Reports submitted to the Climate and Energy Ministers' Meeting (referred to on the G20 Italy website as "outcome documents"):
• Energy efficiency and circularity in a post pandemic economy [pdf]
• Energy Poverty [pdf]
• Empowering Cities for a Net Zero Future [pdf]
• Security of Clean Energy Transitions [pdf]
• Offshore Renewables [pdf]
• Aligning short-term recovery measures [pdf]
• Update on recent progress in reform of inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies [pdf]
• Accelerating Paris-aligned financial flows [PDF]
• Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities [pdf]
• Press release and press conference with Roberto Cingolani, Italy's environment minister, July 22
• Press release, July 20

2020: September 16, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Post-meeting press release, September 17, 2020
• Communiqué, published on November 22, 2020

2019: June 15-16, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Ministerial Meeting on Energy Transitions and the Global Environment for Sustainable Growth

• Communiqué
• G20 Karuizawa Innovation Action Plan on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth
• A Collaborative Endeavor Templates for the G20 Karuizawa Innovation Action Plan on Energy Transitions and Global Environment for Sustainable Growth [PDF]
• G20 Implementation Framework for Actions on Marine Plastic Litter
• G20 Action Agenda on Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure [PDF]

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