Portugal will support the G20 declaration on promoting quality employment through gender equality policies, a just energy transition and addressing the risks of artificial intelligence in the labour market.
In a statement this Friday to Luce, the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Maria do Rosario Palma Ramalho, who has been participating since Thursday in the ministerial meetings on employment of the G20, the forum that brings together the world’s largest economies, world.world, in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, stressed that “it is very important that we have managed to reach a declaration.”
The declaration will focus on four main themes.
“As policies that promote quality employment and good conditions also help to promote social inclusion, fight poverty and hunger,” a just energy transition not only promotes the environment, “but through it helps to reduce poverty and promote social inclusion,” he said.
The other topics concern “equality between men and women and inclusive work” and the use of technology in the labour market, “namely new artificial intelligence technologies,” in order to improve the quality of life of all people, explained Maria Do Rosario Palma Ramalho.
According to the Portuguese minister, these topics are agreed upon and “the policy of the Portuguese government (…) also contributes to achieving these objectives.”
Such as, he stressed, raising the minimum wage, promoting “policies for combining work and family, equality between men and women,” and considering “the risks of artificial intelligence in regulating new forms of work.”
This declaration of the G20, in which Portugal participates as an observer at the invitation of the Brazilian presidency, was defined by the Portuguese minister as “quite balanced” and for which she does not foresee “anything particularly delicate or complex” or “requiring special attention” in relation to the policies that the government is pursuing in the country.
The priorities of the Brazilian government as G20 chair are the fight against hunger, poverty and inequality, sustainable development and global governance reform.
The G20 includes the world’s 10 largest economies: the United States, China, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, as well as the European Union and the African Union.
Brazil, which holds the G20 presidency from the first day of December 2023, has invited Portugal, Angola, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Nigeria, Norway and Singapore to observe the work of the organization, as well as the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).
At the invitation of the Brazilian Presidency, Portugal will participate as an observer in the G20 this year and will attend more than 100 working group meetings at technical and ministerial level in five Brazilian regions, concluding the Brazilian Presidency with the Summit of Heads of State and Government in Rio de Janeiro on 18 and 19 November.