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G8 Summit 2006:
Issues and Instruments

Edited by Maurice Fraser, Agora Projects Ltd.
Published by Newsdesk Media Group, 2006

Download an electronic edition here.

Contents

Foreword by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Chair of the 2006 G8 Summit

The Process

• The Road to St. Petersburg, by John Kirton, G8 Research Group
• The Civil G8-2006, by Ella Pamfilova, Coordinator of the National Working Group, Civil G8-2006 Project

Key Issues

Energy Security

• Energy Security: Continuing What Gleneagles Started, by Claude Mandil, Executive Director, International Energy Agency
• Europe's Changing Energy Landscape, by José Manuel Barroso, President, European Commission

Environment

• Climate Change: Measuring the Threat, by R.K. Pachauri, Chair Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Director General, Tata Energy and Resources Institute
  Environmental Security, by Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

Health

• Global Health, Building on Success, by Richard G.A. Feachem, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  
• Statement of the G8 Health Ministers
  
• Building Human Capital: An Inclusive Charter for Economic Growth, by Frannie Léautier, World Bank Vice-President for the World Bank Institute
  
• Securing the Future through Education, by Ruth Kagia, Education Director, World Bank

Human Development: Partnerships

• Partnerships: Are We There Yet? by Amir Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Fund for International Partnerships

Africa

• The Outlook for Africa, by Andrea Goldstein, by Céline Kauffmann, Nicolas Pinaud and Lucia Wegner, Development Centre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The International Order

• The Responsibility to Protect: Unfinished Business, by Gareth Evans, President and CEO, International Crisis Group

Funding Development

• Development Finance after Monterrey: A New Agenda Arises, by George Mavrotas, Project Director, World Institute for Development Economics, United Nations University

Russia

• Russia's short-term economic outlook, by the Economist Intelligence Unit
• The Outlook for Foreign Direct Investment into Russia, by Economist Intelligence Unit

Central Asia

• Putting Central Asia Back on the Silk Road, by Mike Pfister, Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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