 Members of the G8+5 are highlighted in dark green. Members of the European Union are highlighted in light green.
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TheGroup of Eight + Five (G8+5) was an international group that consisted of the leaders of theheads of government from theG8 nations (Canada,France,Germany,Italy,Japan,Russia, theUnited Kingdom, and theUnited States), plus the heads of government of the five leadingemerging economies (Brazil,China,India,Mexico, andSouth Africa). In March 2014, Russia was removed from the Group of 8 forannexing Crimea,[1] so the G8+5 in its original form is unlikely to reconvene with Russia present.
On February 16, 2007, The Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE International) held a meeting of theG8+5 Climate Change Dialogue at the GLOBE Washington Legislators Forum inWashington, D.C., where a non-binding agreement was reached to cooperate on tacklingglobal warming. The group accepted that the existence of man-madeclimate change was beyond doubt, and that there should be a global system of emission caps andcarbon emissions trading applying to bothindustrialized nations anddeveloping countries. The group hoped this policy to be in place by 2009, to supersede theKyoto Protocol, the first phase of which expires in 2012.[2][3]
The G8+5 group was formed in 2005 whenTony Blair, thenPrime Minister of the United Kingdom, in his role as host of the31st G8 summit atGleneagles,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 atDoha, 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)[4] in partnership with theCom+ alliance of communicators for sustainable development.[5]
Following the33rd G8 summit,Heiligendamm 2007, German chancellorAngela Merkel announced the establishment of the "Heiligendamm Process" through which the full institutionalization of the permanent dialogue between the G8 countries and the five greatestemerging economies will be implemented. This will include the establishment of a common G8 and G5 platform at theOECD.[6]
On August 28, 2007, French presidentNicolas Sarkozy in a foreign policy statement proposed thatBrazil,China,India,Mexico andSouth 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."
Innovation, freedom of investment, development in Africa, and technology for reducingCO2 emissions were the four main issues this process visited in 2008 and 2009. A progress report was presented at the2008 G8 Summit in Japan; a final report on the results of the dialogue was put forward inItaly in 2009.German ChancellorAngela Merkel supported this process, stating, "[W]e cannot get by, or shape globalization in a humane way, without each other".
Nevertheless, as of 2008, a formal enlargement of the G8 was 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.[citation needed].
The following list is a list of leaders of G8+5 in March 2014, when Russia was suspended from the G8. It is in alphabetical order by nation.
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