On October 11, the Valdai Club, in partnership with Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), held a T20 associated online roundtable “The G20 role towards an internationally recognized ESG framework” as part of T20 Italian Presidency.The roundtable was preceded by welcome remarks from Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, and Ettore Greco, Executive Vice President of the IAI. Agostino Inguscio, Senior Expert in the G7/G20 Sherpa Office, Italy Presidency of Council of Ministers; Claude Lopez, Head of Research Department, Milken Institute; Mariano Machado, Councillor member, Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI); Akshay Mathur, Director of ORF Mumbai and Head of the Geoeconomics Studies Programme; Dmitry Pristanskov, State Secretary, Vice President and Head of GR at Nornickel; Anton Tsvetov, Deputy Director, Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Fabrizio Botti, Senior Fellow, (IAI), took part in the discussion. The roundtable was moderated by Yaroslav Lissovolik, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club.