Recession, climate change, Ukraine war: Kant lists challenges before G20

The former Niti Aayog chief executive said that climate change was another big crisis that the world faced, impacting larger nations, as well as threatening to submerge smaller island nations

A slowing global economy with many countries headed to a recession, debt crisis, millions slipping back into poverty due to Covid-19, climate crises, breakdown of supply chains due to the war in Europe, and the geopolitical upheavals caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine -- these are the major challenges that G20 nations will look to find consensus on under India’s leadership, said the country’s Sherpa to G20 Amitabh Kant on Tuesday.

“By the time we take over, there will be a slowing down of global economies. Many parts of the world will go into a recession and therefore, this will