70% vaccines in the world – Corriere.it
In rich countries almost 3 out of 4 people have received the first dose, but in poor ones it drops to 3%. S to the global tax for multinationals. For Biden, this is a historic agreement. There is negotiation on emissions, but there is tension on the climate
An effort both to smooth out equality on vaccines, to be followed by the facts. An agreement on the global minimum tax for the largest corporations, an initiative carried out by the White House that has been more successful in selling it around the world than in the US Congress. No progress on climate change for now. Thus ends the first day of the G20 leaders in Rome
. The summit with the welcome of the Prime Minister Mario Draghi to the heads of state and government
, greeted one by one, upon their arrival at the Eur Cloud – some with a near-hug like Joe Biden or Emmanuel Macron, some like Jair Bolsonaro with smiles at a safe distance. Then the family photo with the medical staff.
The pandemic
Over 70 percent of the population in rich countries has at least one dose of the vaccine while in the poorest this percentage drops to 3 percent, said Draghi: morally unacceptable differences that undermine global recovery. Leaders have pledged to achieve the World Health Organization target of vaccinating 40 percent of the global population by 2021 and 70 percent by mid-2022. promises to donate doses, but among other things an effective predictability in their delivery, investments also in research, the removal of commercial barriers.
The global minimum tax
The leaders of the G20 formally approved the global minimum tax of 15 percent on the profits of large multinationals
, an agreement that will have to be transformed into real regulations in the individual countries. Biden, who is having a hard time convincing his own party to raise taxes to fund the government spending plan, calls the global minimum tax a historic turning point for workers, taxpayers, and corporations in America, an agreement that reshapes the rules of the global economy and evidence that the White House is pursuing a foreign policy for the middle class.
The climate
A Provisional draft of the G20 conclusions on climate, anticipated by the Reuters agency, testifies to the difficulty of finding a compromise between the West and Asian powers
. Sources from Palazzo Chigi have made it known that the Sherpas will work all night. If confirmed for the draft it would be a bad sign towards Cop26 starting Monday in Glasgow. The eyes of billions of people, of entire peoples, are focused on us and on the results we will know about us, said Sergio Mattarella in last night’s toast at the Quirinale: It is up to us to make a decisive turn. The head of state insisted that multilateralism and cooperation are the only concrete and effective responses to the difficulties and tensions that cross the planet. It is precisely the pandemic that has made it clear that no one is able to tackle problems affecting the general condition of humanity alone.
Handshakes but also tensions
Those on the sidelines of the summit offered hand-to-hand meetings, such as that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defined months ago as a unitor and aluminum by the EU, resolving a dispute that began under Trump. Emphasizing the difference from his predecessor, Biden in Germany, France and the UK appealed to the new Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi to return to nuclear deal negotiations, in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Tensions remain between London and Paris over Channel fishing rights. And then Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United States not to warn about Taiwan’s affairs, otherwise they will surely pay a price. America and France, worried by the energy supply crisis and inflation, have asked oil and gas exporting countries to increase production; Putin responded in video link that Russia will act pragmatically and guided only by economic considerations. President Joe Biden concluded the day by going to Mass on St. Patrick’s and, after the Pope’s green light on Friday, taking communion despite opposition from some conservative bishops in America, who contest his position on abortion. Communion is what unites us in the Lord, none of us are perfect, we are all saints and sinners, commented Father Joe Ciccone.
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