G8 5

The Group of Eight + Five (G8+5) was an international group that consisted 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). In March 2014, Russia was cast out of the Group of 8 due to its involvement in the 2014 Crimea crisis in Ukraine, so the G8+5 in its original form is unlikely to reconvene with Russia present.

February 2007 declaration

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.

Foundation

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.

Institutionalization

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.
(see: "Die G8 – Akteure in einer globalen Entwicklungspartnerschaft; https://web.archive.org/web/20080217222220/http://www.bmz.de/de/service/infothek/fach/spezial/index.html)

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 United States 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..

Current leaders

(The following list is in alphabetical order by nation)

File:Jair Bolsonaro 2021 (cropped).jpg, Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro, President
File:Trudeau visit White House for USMCA (cropped).jpg, Canada
Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister
File:Xi Jinping 2019.jpg, China
Xi Jinping, President and General Secretary
File:Зустріч Президента України з президентами Франції та Румунії, а також головами урядів Німеччини та Італії 76 (cropped).jpg, France
Emmanuel Macron,
President
File:Olaf Scholz In March 2022.jpg, Germany
Olaf Scholz, Chancellor
File:Official Photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Potrait.png, India
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
File:Giorgia Meloni 2022.jpg, Italy
Giorgia Meloni,
Prime Minister
File:Fumio Kishida 20211004.jpg, Japan
Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister
File:Reunión con el presidente electo y equipos de trabajo 6 (cropped).jpg, Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President
File:Владимир Путин (13-11-2021) (cropped).jpg, Russia
Vladimir Putin, President
File:Cyril Ramaphosa - President of South Africa - 2018 (cropped).jpg, South Africa
Cyril Ramaphosa, President
File:Chancellor Rishi Sunak (cropped).jpg,
Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister
File:Joe Biden presidential portrait (cropped).jpg, United States
Joe Biden, President
File:Charles Michel 2019 (cropped).jpg, European Union
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
File:Official Portrait of Ursula von der Leyen (cropped).jpg, European Union
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

See also

*Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
* Gleneagles Dialogue
*List of country groupings
*List of multilateral free-trade agreements

Notes

References

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International climate change organizations
Organizations established in 2005
Organizations disestablished in 2014
Group of Eight