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Takeaways from the G20 Summit

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President Obama speaking at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia

World leaders who attended this year’s G20 Summit in Australia agreed there is a need to tackle climate change and crack down on tax avoidance.

Leaders also shunned Russian President Vladimir Putin over his country’s continued presence in Ukraine. This hour on River to River, host Ben Kieffer talks with Iowa State University Political Science Professor Jim McCormick, who is currently living in Australia, about the summit.

During this interview, we also hear about Iowa Congressman Steve King’s planned “Iowa Freedom Summit” and get some analysis of the most recent beheading by ISIS. 

Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.