Cyberattack during the Paris G20 Summit

• Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Oct 30, 2023 - (ACN Newswire) - A medical professor at Airlangga University, Prastiya Indra Gunawan, has developed a new epilepsy treatment method that involves administering midazolam intramuscularly and intranasally.
• Airlangga University professor Prastiya Indra Gunawan has devised a new treatment method that involves providing midazolam intramuscularly and intranasally to epilepsy patients.
• This is different from rectal diazepam, which takes 180 seconds," Professor Gunawan, a pediatrician from Airlangga University, said.
• With the establishment of the epilepsy center, Gunawan said he hopes that people with epilepsy will not only receive healthcare, but also see improvements in their social life.

• QUÉBEC, Sept. 8, 2023 /CNW/ - Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg (L'Hommage à Rosa Luxemburg), an iconic work by artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002) showcased at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), will represent Canada in an exhibition taking place alongside the G20 Summit, which starts today in India.
• Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg was chosen to feature in the G20 Digital Museum exhibition, organized by the Indian government's Department of Culture, which asked all G20 member countries—as well as the nine guest countries—to select a significant work of art.
• Created in 1992 and acquired by the MNBAQ in 1996, Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg is the largest work ever created by Jean Paul Riopelle.
• The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is a state corporation funded by the Gouvernement du Québec.

• The deficit of trust is colossal.
• Each year the scale and complexity of annual Conference of the Parties (COP), organised under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, increases.
• The fact that after 27 COPs the world is still not demonstrating tangible climate action is contributing to growing frustration.
• Whether or how we achieve this will require sensitive and deft political negotiation – both in the lead-up to, and at, the COP28.

Legitimacy

• When stakeholders question whether COPs are nothing more than a talk-shop, doubt their legitimacy, or denounce their transparency, we can rightfully learn from these criticisms and make the system more robust.
• But the way in which we express views must be respectful of governing processes and sensitive to the fragile web of relations the system depends.

The money

• Finance is likely to take centre stage again at the negotiations, or at least it should.
• There are expectations that, for the first time, the Green Fund’s yearly $100 billion target will be reached.
• It is also why a lot of attention will be devoted to the outcome of a number of key meetings:


Developing countries need to coordinate their positions for these
various high-level gatherings. This is what happened through the political momentum achieved by the G77 + China around loss and damage finance last year.

Options on the table

• African focus should also be on scaling the quantum of funding for the transition and for adaptation and resilience, and the role that state owned entities and the private sector can play.
• But many options have already been put on the table for COP28.
• These include include Just Transition Plans and associated finance packages, carbon pricing, and, more controversially, targets and fossil fuel phase outs.

• The event was hosted by the Baháʼí International Community, working in partnership with the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities and the G20 Interfaith Forum Association.
• The forum built upon the success of the 2022 forum in the UAE, and prior G20 Interfaith events.
• Professor W. Cole Durham Jr., President of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association, concluded: "The New Delhi Forum has served as a major landmark in this year's continuous engagement with G20 process."
• The next G20 Interfaith Forum will be held in Brazil in 2024, followed by South Africa in 2025.