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G20 Summit Costs, 2010–2018

Duja Muhanna
November 28, 2018

See also G8 and G20 Summit Costs (June 2010)

2010 Canada *G8 and *G20 Summits

• Total Cost for both summits: CAD 1.1 billion
• Hospitality, infrastructure, food safety and extra staffing (both summits): CAD 160 million
• Security for both summits: CAD 933 million

2010 G20 Summit in Toronto

• Total Cost: CAD 715 million
• Security: CAD 604.5 million

2011 G20 Summit in Cannes

• Total Cost: EUR 80 million

2013 G20 Summit in St. Petersburg

• Total Cost: RUB 2 billion (USD 62 million)

2014 G20 Summit in Brisbane

• Cost of Hosting: AUD 400 million
• Cost of Security: AUD 100 million

2015 G20 Summit in Antalya

• Turkey's Hürriyet Newspaper reported that the cost was expected to top 500 million.
• No other information was found.

2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou

• The Economist reported that there was a rumour the city was spending RMB 160 billion (USD 24 billion) to host the G20 summit.
• Chinese authorities have refused to reveal the exact cost of the summit.

2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg

• Total Cost of Summit: EUR 72.2 million (includes security, hospitality, organizational and protocol related preparations)
• Cost of damage caused by riots: EUR 12 million

2018 G20 Summit in Buenos Aires

• Total Cost of Summit: USD 112 million

Sources

• Patrick Maguire, "Brisbane, Australia's 2014 G20 Security Costs Were $500M Less than Toronto's," Vice, November 14, 2014
• Kristian Silva, "G20 security forces complete final major training exercise,", Brisbane Times, October 6, 2014
• "Turkey's G-20 summit spending under scrutiny,"Hürriyet Daily News, June 22, 2014
• "China prepares to host the G20," The Economist, August 29, 2016
• Tom Phillips with Christy Yao, " 'Paradise on earth': China's Hangzhou gets propaganda facelift for G20 summit," The Guardian, August 31, 2016
• "Security," FAQs, Germany's official website for the 2017 Hamburg Summit
• "Hamburg G20 riot damages run into millions," DW, July 19, 2017
• John Kirton, Jenilee Guebert and Shamir Tanna, "G8 and G20 Summit Costs," G8 and G20 Research Groups, July 5, 2010
• CBC News, "Summit costs hit $1.1B," May 6, 2010
• CTV News, "Ottawa releases costs for G20, G8 summits," November 5, 2010
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta, "St. Petersburg to spend nearly $62 million on G20 summit," RBTH Interfax, July 15, 2013
• Independent, "Diary: France counts €80m G20 cost," November 7, 2011
• Ignacio Grimaldi, "Argentina gastó US$ 112 millones en preparación de la cumbre del G20," CNN Español, November 27, 2018

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