2016 G20 Hangzhou summit
| 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit | |
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| Host country | China |
| Venue(s) | Hangzhou International Exhibition Centre |
| Cities | Hangzhou, Zhejiang |
| Participants |
G20 members Guest invitees: Egypt, Kazakhstan, Laos, Senegal, Spain, Singapore, Thailand |
| Chair | Xi Jinping, President |
| Follows | 2015 G20 Antalya summit |
| Precedes | 2017 G20 Hamburg summit |
The 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit was the eleventh meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20). It was held on 4–5 September 2016 in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang. It was the first ever G20 summit to be hosted in China and the second in an Asian country after 2010 G20 Seoul summit was hosted in South Korea.
In the days before the G20 Hangzhou summit, only some vehicles were allowed through the city, construction sites were stopped, inhabitants received a week-long holidays (and were encouraged to leave the city) and factories in the region (including more than two hundred steel mills) were asked to stop their production (in order to temporarily reduce air pollution).
On 3 September 2016, Barack Obama and Xi Jinping announced the ratification of the Paris Agreement (of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference) by their countries. After they did it, it is 26 countries which have ratified the agreement so far; the United States and China represent respectively 18 percent and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions (the driving force behind global warming).
The main themes of final communiqué of the summit are:
List of leaders who took part in the 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit:
Argentina
Mauricio Macri, President
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