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On June 7, 2007, leaders at the 33rd G8 summit issued a non-binding communiqué announcing that the G8 nations would "aim to at least halve global CO 2 emissions by 2050". The details enabling this to be achieved would be negotiated by environment ministers within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in a process that would ...
The 33rd G8 summit was held at Kempinski Grand Hotel, 6–8 June 2007. The summit took place in Heiligendamm in the Northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Baltic Coast. [ 1 ] The locations of previous G7 / G8 summits to have been hosted by Germany include Bonn ( 1978 , 1985 ), Munich ( 1992 ), and Cologne ( 1999 ).
The G8 summit is an international event which is observed and reported by news media, but the G8's continuing relevance after more than 30 years is somewhat unclear. [94] More than one analyst suggests that a G8 summit is not the place to flesh out the details of any difficult or controversial policy issue in the context of a three-day event. [95]
The Gleneagles Dialog is a summit (meeting) of the environment and energy ministers from the G8 countries Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and the European Union.
The Y8 Summit or simply Y8, formerly known as the G8 Youth Summit [49] is the youth counterpart to the G8 summit. [50] The summits were organized from 2006 to 2013. The first summit to use the name Y8 took place in May 2012 in Puebla, Mexico, alongside the Youth G8 that took place in Washington, D.C. the same year. From 2016 onwards, similar ...
The 32nd G8 summit was held on 15–17 July 2006 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.The venue was the Constantine Palace, which is located in Strelna on the Gulf of Finland. [1] [2] This was the first time Russia served as host nation for a G8 summit; and the nation's status as a full member of the G8 was confirmed.
Leaders of the G8 assemble in Rostock, Germany for the 33rd annual G8 summit to discuss primarily issues of climate change and international aid, but also U.S.-Russia tensions over an antimissile system in Europe. (Reuters via CNN) Dozens of people are trapped in a collapsed hall in Leshan in the southwestern province of Sichuan in China.
Family photo at the G8 summit on 9 July 2009. The 35th G8 summit was the first summit for US President Barack Obama and was the last summit for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It was also the first and only summit for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. Political changes in the G8 member nations were likely to affect the composition of the ...