Category - g8 summit

Major Economies Forum adopting a strategy of 'deferral and delay'

staff writers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:51:42 +0100

Tearfund said that like the G8, the seventeen nations that form the Major Economies Forum (MEF) have been “adopting a strategy of deferral and delay”.

Time-wasting by world leaders ‘risking millions of lives’

staff writers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:45:11 +0100

There was a negative response yesterday to the declaration from the Major Economies Forum which met on the sidelines of the G8 summit to discuss progress towards a global climate change deal scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.

'Time to show your climate credibility' G8 told

agency reporter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:34:31 +0100

G8 leaders must demonstrate much greater political courage on climate change or they will condemn yesterday's Major Economies Forum declaration to being little more than hot air, Christian Aid has warned.

G8 displaying 'staggering disregard' for urgent action on climate finance

agency reporter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:30:58 +0100

G8 leaders are in danger of squandering opportunities and plunging poor people into deeper climate chaos and poverty, the aid and development agency Tearfund has said.

G8 leaders doing an ‘Italian Job’ on developing world

agency reporter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:05:11 +0100

As world leaders begin meeting in Italy, the aid agency World Vision has accused them of failing to honour aid pledges to the world’s poorest countries.

Catholic bishops urge G8 to fulfil commitments to world's poor

agency reporter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:22:54 +0100

Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols and Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrews, have called on governments to protect the poor across the world amid the ongoing economic crisis.

London rally will pressure G20 leaders on just, fair and sustainable policies

staff writers — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:07:22 +0000

A wide coalition of development and social change agencies, including church groups, is organising a major demonstration in central London on 28 March to highlight the need for just economy and ecology.

G8 under fire for failure to make breakthrough at climate talks

Hazel Southam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:41:16 +0100

The G8 leaders have been criticised today for failing to make a breakthrough in critical climate change talks. Discussions about how to reduce greenhouse gases came on the second day of the summit on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

G8 ministers urged to revisit nuclear disarmament

staff writers — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:35:49 +0100

Pax Christi International has issued an open letter to G8 leaders meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, urging them to make renewed efforts toward the disarmament of nuclear weapons.

Food and oil prices must not undermine commitment to Africa, G8 told

Hazel Southam — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:45:24 +0100

Spiralling food and oil prices dominated the first day of the G8 summit in Japan. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, arrived at the summit calling for the launch of a ‘global action plan’ to tackle rising food prices.