For Temer, open and integrated action will enable difficulties between countries to be faced

Quality infrastructure, energy transition and food security were the topics discussed during the third plenary session of the 13th G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his speech, on the last day of the meeting, the President of the Republic, Michel Temer, stressed that the issues must be faced with collective and integrated efforts. “It is essential that we act in an open and integrated way", he said.

According to Temer, despite the significant volume needed to finance areas such as infrastructure, the goal should be "to make money get to where it is needed”. According to G20 data, an additional US$ 15 trillion is needed until 2040 to address infrastructure deficits on a global scale.

To reach such investments, the president pointed to the need for countries to ensure transparent and predictable governance models, with stable and rational rules. "We have to reinforce legal certainty and make the environment more favourable for those wanting to invest. This is what we have been doing in Brazil, with significant results", he said.

Energy transition

In his speech, he also mentioned Brazil's progress in the proportion of renewable sources in its energy mix, which already exceeds 40%, vis-à-vis a world average that does not surpass 14%. In 2016, the country launched the Biofuture Platform. “Our purpose is to accelerate the development and spread of the so-called 'sustainable bioenergy', as an alternative to fossil fuels," Temer said.

Food power

The president said that food security is a global challenge. “Ensuring quality food for everyone, is before anything else, a moral obligation.” In face of Brazil's experience, from a net importer of food, in the 1980s, but becoming one of the world's biggest agricultural exporter, the president gauged that "it will not be an exaggeration to say that we have become a sustainable food power, a provider of cheap food and quality”.