G8 agenda and capacity

Fatal indifference: the G8, Africa, and global health

( R. Labonte; T. Schrecker; D. Sanders; W. Meeus / International Development Research Centre , 2004)

This book, published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), assesses how well the G8 (the body representing the world’s eight richest countries) has met its commitments to improving ...

No energy security without climate security

( WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2006)

This brief prepared by the WWF for the 2006 G8 meeting in St. Petersburg argues that energy security is interlinked with climate change. The brief argues that “secure energy” should be based on overri...

An ounce of prevention: the failure of G8 policy on armed conflict

( D. Brandt; M. J.O. Scott / World Vision , 2004)

This report attempts to catalogue the human, social and economic costs of conflict in sixteen different countries and recommend changes that will help prevent future conflicts. It is directed primaril...

Politics: the missing link in the G8 Africa debate

( D. Booth / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2005)

This short position paper proposes that the political dimension of Africa’s development is the most important and the least well treated in this year’s G8 debate. Most important because in the sub-Sah...

The G8: global arms exporters: failing to prevent irresponsible arms transfers

( Oxfam , 2005)

This report argues that that the G8 countries are still among the leading arms suppliers, exporters of major conventional weapons and exporters of small arms, therefore undermining their commitments t...