The G20 had an official agenda for society for the first time with the G20, but organizations also organized their own independent event before the forum meeting: the People’s Summit in Front of the G20

The G20 had an official agenda for society for the first time with the G20, but organizations also organized their own independent event before the forum meeting: the People’s Summit in Front of the G20.

The event brought together around 700 participants from all over Brazil, South Africa and Latin American and Caribbean countries days before the forum meeting, at the Brazilian Press Association in Rio de Janeiro. Among them were researchers from the BRICS Policy Center.

It was organized by an international collective of civil society organizations, trade unions, networks and popular movements, which held nine plenary sessions over the course of the year, culminating in the final event.

The Peoples’ Summit aimed to promote a debate critical of the G20 Summit and “seek alternatives to the challenges of the situation and denounce the false solutions proposed by the member countries of the Group of 20 to the multiple crises of today”.

In 2012, with Rio+20, society also organized the Peoples’ Summit, just as it did for the first time during Rio92.