The Group of Eight + Five (G8+5) an international
group that consists of the leaders of the heads of government from the G8
nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and
the United States), plus the heads of government of the five leading emerging
economies (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa).
The G8+5 group was formed in 2005 when Tony Blair,
then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in his role as host of the 31st G8
summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, invited the leading emerging countries to join
the talks. The hope was that this would form a stronger and more representative
group that would inject fresh impetus into the trade talks at Doha, and the
need to achieve a deeper cooperation on climate change.
Following the meeting, the countries issued a joint
statement looking to build a "new paradigm for international
cooperation" in the future.
The G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue was launched on February
24, 2006, by the (GLOBE) in partnership with the Com+ alliance of communicators
for sustainable development.
On February 16, 2007, The Global Legislators
Organisation (GLOBE International) held a meeting of the G8+5 Climate Change
Dialogue at the GLOBE Washington Legislators Forum in Washington, D.C., where a
non-binding agreement was reached to cooperate on tackling global warming. The
group accepted that the existence of man-made climate change was beyond doubt,
and that there should be a global system of emission caps and carbon emissions
trading applying to both industrialized nations and developing countries. The
group hoped this policy to be in place by 2009, to supersede the Kyoto
Protocol, the first phase of which expires in 2012.
Following the 33rd G8 summit Heiligendamm 2007,
German chancellor Angela Merkel announced the establishment of the
"Heiligendamm Process" through which the full institutionalization of
the permanent dialogue between the G8 countries and the five greatest emerging
economies will be implemented. This will include the establishment of a common
G8 and G5 platform at the OECD.
Most recently on August 28, 2007, former French
president Nicolas Sarkozy in a foreign policy statement proposed that Brazil,
China, India, Mexico and South Africa should become members of G8: "The G8
can't meet for two days and the G13 for just two hours.... That doesn't seem
fitting, given the power of these five emerging countries." Nevertheless,
as of 2008, a formal enlargement of the G8 is not a realistic political option,
since the G8 member states have diverging positions on this issue. The US and Japan
have been against enlargement, the United Kingdom and France actively in
favour, and Italy, Germany, Russia and Canada are reserved on the issue.
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