Italy 1 Dec 2020 - 30 Nov 2021

Italy’s G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2020 and will conclude on 30 November 2021. Launched in a video message from Italy’s President Giuseppe Conte, the 2021 G20 Presidency has three thematic pillars:

• People – Tackling inequalities and promoting equal opportunities
• Planet – Implementing the commitments to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Prosperity – Fostering new technologies and digital transformation as drivers of growth and better quality of life.

The major infrastructure objective of the Presidency year is to promote an international environment conducive to investment and growth: infrastructure to absorb shocks, ensure access to services and environmental sustainability. Within this objective, the Presidency seeks to strengthen:

• the infrastructure contribution to the G20 Action Plan in Response to COVID-19
• resilience and maintenance, in line with the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment
• digital infrastructure
• sustainable infrastructure
• social infrastructure, including the local government dimension.

Major infrastructure outcomes and related documents will be provided here as they become available through Italy’s G20 Presidency.

Saudi Arabia 1 Dec 2019 - 30 Nov 2020

Saudi Arabia’s G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2019 and concludes on 30 November 2020. The virtual Leaders’ Summit was held on November 21-22 2020.

The theme of the Presidency is ‘Realizing Opportunities of the 21^st Century for All’, supported by a focus on sub-themes of:

• Empowering People by unleashing opportunities for all. This includes driving further ambition to empower both women and youth, encourage quality jobs and social protection for all workers, promote education and skills, enable person-centered health systems, scale up efforts for sustainable development, and foster inclusive and sustainable tourism.
• Safeguarding the Planet by fostering collective efforts to protect our global commons. This includes advancing synergies between adaptation and mitigation efforts to tackle climate change, protecting the environment by taking concrete actions, promoting cleaner and more sustainable energy systems and affordable energy access, promoting water sustainability and reducing food loss and waste.
• Shaping New Frontiers by adopting long-term, bold strategies to utilize and share the benefits of innovation where international collaboration is vital for tackling its challenges, while harnessing the benefits of digitization across the economy, encouraging the adoption of new technologies in infrastructure, keeping pace with advances in artificial intelligence, and developing smart cities.

The major infrastructure outcome from the Presidency year is the endorsement of the G20 Riyadh InfraTech Agenda. This was supported by:

• Reference Note – InfraTech Stocktake, July 2020 (Global Infrastructure Hub)
• Reference Note – InfraTech Value Case, July 2020 (World Bank Group)
• Reference Note – InfraTech Toolkit, July 2020 (World Bank Group)
• The G20/OECD Report on Collaboration with Institutional Investors and Asset Managers, July 2020
• InfraTech Use Case Library, November 2020

2020 and the impact of COVID-19 has resulted in changes to the priorities and activities of the G20, to allow it to respond collectively to the health and economic crisis caused by the pandemic. The G20’s collective response is captured in the G20 Action Plan in Response to COVID-19, endorsed by Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2020, and updated on an ongoing basis.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from the below links

Japan 1 Dec 2018 - 30 Nov 2019

Japan’s G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2018 and concludes on 30 November 2019. The Leaders’ Summit was held on 28-29 June 2019 in Osaka, Japan.

The themes of the Presidency were global economy, trade and investment, innovation, environment and energy, employment, women’s empowerment, development and health.

More detailed topics discussed under the themes included promoting free trade, infrastructure for development, global health, climate change, ageing populations, promoting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and international development and science and technology innovation to solve social problems and foster a human-centred society.

The major infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year is the endorsement of the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment. These were supported by:

• MDB Infrastructure Cooperation Platform: Phase II reference note on project preparation across the full project cycle (EBRD, in cooperation with the World Bank)
• MDB Reference Note: Translating Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Principles into Procurement Practices (AfDB, AsDB, BSTDB, CDB CABEI, CEB, EIB, EBRD, IaDB and IsDB, coordinated by the World Bank)
• OECD/IMF Reference Note on the Governance of Quality Infrastructure Investment
• OECD Reference Note on Environmental and Social Considerations in Quality Infrastructure
• GI Hub/OECD/World Bank Database of Resources and Facilities for Quality Infrastructure Investment

Downloadable document can be accessed from below link.

Argentina 1 Dec 2017 - 30 Nov 2018

The Argentinian G20 Presidency year commenced on 30 November 2017 and concluded on 1 December 2018. The G20 Leaders’ Summit was held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The themes of the Presidency were: the future of work, infrastructure for development and a sustainable food future.

Infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year included the Roadmap to Infrastructure as an Asset Class and the G20 Principles for the Infrastructure Project Preparation Phase. These were supported by the Introductory Guide to Infrastructure Guarantee Products from Multilateral Development Banks (jointly prepared by the MDBs), the G20/OECD/World Bank Stocktake of Tools and Instruments Related to Infrastructure as an Asset Class and the establishment of the MDB Infrastructure Cooperation Platform.

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors extended the mandate of the Global Infrastructure Hub to 2022 at their July meeting.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from below links.

Germany 1 Dec 2016 - 30 Nov 2017

The German G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2016 and concluded on 30 November 2017. The G20 Leaders’ Summit was held on 7 and 8 July 2017 in the city of Hamburg, Germany.

The G20 Presidency had three major themes: building resilience, improving sustainability and assuming responsibility.

In addition to the broad topics of global economic growth, international trade, and financial market regulation, the topics addressed under those themes included migration and refugee flows, digitisation, health – particularly regarding combating dangerous pathogens and antimicrobial resistance, women’s economic empowerment and development aid.

Infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year included endorsing the MDB’s Joint Principles and Ambitions on Crowding-In Private Finance (the ‘Hamburg Principles and Ambitions’) and the establishment of the G20 Africa Partnership and Investment Compacts, which included a pillar of cooperation on the development of quality infrastructure.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from below links.

China 1 Dec 2015 - 30 Nov 2016

The Chinese G20 Presidency year commenced on 30 November 2015 and concluded on 1 December 2016. The G20 Leaders’ Summit was held on 4 and 5 September 2016 in the city of Hangzhou, China.

The theme of the Presidency year was ‘Towards an Inclusive, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy’, with an emphasis on vision, integration, openness and inclusiveness. 

Infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year included the launch and endorsement of the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance to enhance synergy and cooperation among various infrastructure connectivity programs and endorsement of the G20/OECD Guidance Note on Diversification of Financial Instruments for Infrastructure and SMEs. In addition, the G20 welcomed the MDB Response to the G20 MDB Balance Sheet Optimization Action Plan and the GI Hub’s Annotated Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Risk Allocation Matrices.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from below links.

Turkey 1 Dec 2014 - 30 Nov 2015

The Turkish G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2014 and concluded on 30 November 2015. The G20 Leaders’ Summit was held on 15 and 16 November 2015 in the city of Belek, in the Antalya Province of Turkey.

The themes of the Presidency were strengthening the global recovery and lifting potential, enhancing resilience and buttressing sustainability.

Infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year included an endorsement of the G20 Toolkit of Voluntary Options for Renewable Energy Deployment as well as agreeing that attention should be given to global health risks, such as antimicrobial resistance, infectious disease threats and weak health systems in the wake of the Ebola virus crisis.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from below links.

Australia 1 Dec 2013 - 30 Nov 2014

The Australian G20 Presidency year commenced on 1 December 2013 and concluded on 30 November 2014. The G20 Leaders’ Summit was held on 15 and 16 November 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.

The themes of the Presidency were acting together to lift growth and create jobs, building a stronger, more resilient global economy and strengthening global institutions.

Infrastructure outcomes from the Presidency year included the establishment of the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) to help increase infrastructure investment by linking governments, the private sector, development banks and international organisations.

Downloadable documents can be accessed from below links.