Urban infrastructure principles on the cards in July G20 meeting

The dates for the Gandhinagar meeting have not been finalised

The Group of Twenty (G20) nations, led by India, is working to finalise the priority principles of financing sustainable urban infrastructure, which is expected to be endorsed by the bloc’s finance ministers and central bank governors when they meet in Gandhinagar in early July.

If approved, the priority principles of “Financing Cities of Tomorrow” could be the first policy statement to be endorsed by G20 leaders under India’s presidency. Like all G20 prescriptions, they will be non-binding.

“In the G20 infrastructure working group (IWG) meetings, our priority principles are shaping up well. The next meeting is in Vizag later this month. The