G8

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Chapters: 34th G8 summit, 36th G8 summit, 35th G8 summit, 31st G8 summit, 33rd G8 summit, 32nd G8 summit, 37th G8 summit, 27th G8 summit, 30th G8 summit, Make Poverty History, 22nd G7 summit, 38th G8 summit, 28th G8 summit, 16th G7 summit, Group of 77, 23rd G8 summit, 29th G8 summit, 26th G8 summit, 15th G7 summit, 17th G7 summit, 14th G7 summit, 24th G8 summit, 25th G8 summit, 21st G7 summit, 10th G7 summit, 19th G7 summit, 20th G7 summit, 18th G7 summit, 3rd G7 summit, 13th G7 summit, 11th G7 summit, Plaza Accord, 1st G6 summit, List of G8 leaders, 12th G7 summit, List of longest serving G8 leaders, G8+5, Sherpa, List of G8 summit resorts, Forum for the Future, G8 Research Group, Carta di Siracusa on Biodiversity, G8 Alternatives, Dissent!, Junior 8, G8 Climate Change Roundtable, European Union and the G8, Group of 24, Louvre Accord, Heiligendamm Process, G14, Sous-Sherpa, Cool Earth 50, Muskoka Initiative, Gleneagles Dialogue, Carnegie Group, Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative. Excerpt: The 34th G8 summit took place in Toyako Toya-ko, Lake Toya) on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan from July 7-9, 2008. The locations of previous summits to have been hosted by Japan include: Tokyo (1979, 1986, 1993); and Nago, Okinawa (2000). The G8 Summit has evolved beyond being a gathering of world political leaders. The event has become an occasion for a wide variety of non-governmental organizations, activists and civic groups to congregate and discuss a multitude of issues. The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976. The G8, meeting for the first time in 1997, was formed with the addition of Russia. In addition, the President of the European Commission has been formally included in summits since 1981. The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the initial summit of the Group of Six (G6) in 1975. In discussions regarding Africa during the 34th G8 Summit, the G8 leaders set a five-year deadline to commit US$60 billion in funding to help fight disease in Africa and renewed a commitment made three years earlier to double aid for Africa to $25-billion by 2010 and to consider pledging further assistance after 2010. On the topic of global warming, the G8 leaders agreed on the need for the world to cut carbon emissions blamed for global warming by at least 50 percent by 2050. Environmental activists and leaders from the developing countries described the statement as a "toothless gesture". Results of discussions on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which had earlier been leaked by Wikileaks, were not known. The