What is the point of this G20 meeting?

If Obama is not turning up, what real point is there to this meeting? Maybe a photo opportunity for a few people back home, but Bush is so lame duck now, what can he hope to push through???

For 2008, Brazil proposes dialogue on Competition in Financial Markets, Clean Energy and Economic Development and Fiscal Elements of Growth and Development. To follow with the discussions, there will be three technical workshops in the first semester and two Deputies Meetings. The objective of these meetings is to provide an updated view on those themes that will be further discussed on the Ministers' and Governors' Meeting.

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But yes, your are quite correct, basically it is a photo-op under the guise of fixing world economic policies.