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The G8 2009:
From La Maddalena to L'Aquila

Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G8 Research Group, 2009

Download an electronic edition here.

Contents

Forewords

• De La Maddalena a L'Aquila (in Italian and English)
  Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, Italy (also in Russian and Chinese)
  
• For better global governance
  Taro Aso, prime minister, Japan (in Japanese)
  
• The 2010 Muskoka Summit
  Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada (in English, français, italiano, Deutsch, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Espanol)
  
• The G8: complementing the G20
  Lee Myung-bak, president, Korea (in Korean)
  

Introduction

• Prospects for the 2009 L'Aquila G8 Summit
  John Kirton, director, G8 Research Group
  

From G20 to G8: joint action

• Recovery and Reform
  Daniel M. Price, partner at Sidley Austin LLP and former assistant to the US president for international economic affairs and former G8 and G20 sherpa
  

Economics, finance and trade

• Call to action
  Angel Gurrìa, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Economic Development
• Restoring Growth
  Robert Fauver, former US under secretary of state for economic affairs and former G7 sherpa
• Mapping the route to recovery
  Paola Subacchi, Chatham House
• Regulation and Reform
  Jim O'Neill, Goldman Sachs
• Under pressure
  Domenico Lombardi, Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and the Brookings Institution
• The common purse
  Pietro Alessandrini, Università Politecnica della Marche, and Michele Fratianni, Indiana University and Università Politecnica della Marche
• Facing up to respondibility
  Kimon Valaskakis, New School of Athens
  

Environment and climate change

• The environment-health axis
  Achim Steiner, United Nations and United Nations Environment Programme
• A climate of change
  Frank Loy, former US under secretary of state for global affairs and chief climate negotiator
• Securing the future
  Tobias Feakin, National Security and Resilience, Royal United Services Institute
• Trading our way out of climate change
  Henry Derwent, International Emissions Trading Association
• Toward Copenhagen
  Bjorn Stigson, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• On thin ice
  Christopher Wright, Grantham Institute on Climate Change, London School of Econonmics, and Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo

Energy

• The energy challenge
  Nobuo Tanaka, International Energy Agency
• Renewing efforts
  Sergey Koblov and Victoria Panova, International Sustainable Energy Development Centre
  

Health

• The global health challenge
  Margaret Chan, World Health Organization
• Finding the cure
  Michel Kazatchkine, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Delivering on promises?
• James Orbinski, St. Michael's Hospital, and Jenilee M. Guebert, Program on Global Health Governance, University of Toronto

Water, food and agriculture

• Out of our depth
  Loïc Fauchon, World Water Council
• A roadmap for global food security
  Jacques Diouf, Food and Agriculture Organization
• A green revolution
  Kanayo f. Nwanze, International Fund for Agriculture and Development
• The food and energy challenge
  C. Ford Runge, University of Minnesota

Development, investment and emerging economies

• The war on want
  Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealthsecretary general
• Opportunity out of crisis
  Lars H. Thunell, International Finance Corporation
• Asia's paradox
  Haruhiko Kuroda, Assian Development Bank
• Rediscovering the Americas
  Alicia Bárcena, United Nationsl Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• The hour of need
  Donald Kaberuka, African Development Bank
• Restructuring development
  Diéry Seck, Centre for Research on Political Economy
• Looking east
  Hisham El-Sherif, Nile Capital

IT and telecommunications

• Only connect
  Hamadoun Touré, International Telecommunications Union
• A better Web for a better society
  Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Bratt and Daniel Dardailler, World Wide Web Foundation and World Wide Web Consortium

Global governance and the growing G8

• Down but not out
  Andrew F. Cooper, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
• A civil society
  Peter I. Hajnal and Jenilee M. Guebert, G8 Research Group

Appendices

• Profiles
• G8 Research Group's 2008 Interim Compliance Report

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