Brazil highlights poverty, climate change as G20 priorities

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a meeting on installation of the G20 National Commission, with his ministers, president of the Central Bank and president of the Supreme Court at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 23, 2023. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil will focus on reducing hunger and poverty, slowing climate change and global governance reform when it heads the G20 group of the world's largest economies starting next month, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday.

Brazil takes over the G20 presidency from India on Dec.1 and will hold the 2024 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November next year.