Yellen Urges G-20 Role on Green Policy to Avoid Disputes

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged the world’s leading economies to coordinate policy on climate change to prevent disputes on policies that are “not well aligned” from spillinginto other issues.The Group of 20 “could provide a platform for economic policy makers to work together,” Yellen said Friday in a speech at the G-20’s meeting of finance ministers and central bankgovernors in Venice, Italy.With ministers set to endorse a global agreement on corporate taxation, the focus in Venice is shifting to other issues like climate change and how to tackle it.