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G8 & G20: The 2010 Canadian Summits
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2010
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Table of Contents [PDF]
Introduction and welcome [PDF]
- Recovery and new beginnings
- The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
[English] [français] [Korean] [Japanese] [Italiano] [Espanol] [Deutsch] [Portugues] [Türk] [Bahasa Indonesia] [Chinese] [Arabic]
- Reprise et renaissance
- Le très honorable Stephen Harper, premier ministre du Canada
[anglais] [corée] [japonais] [Italiano] [Espanol] [Deutsch] [Portugues] [Türk] [Bahasa Indonesia] [chinois] [arabe]
- The G20: a timely forum
- Lee Myung-bak, president, Republic of Korea
[English] [français] [Korean] [Italiano] [Japanese] [Espanol] [Deutsch] [Portugues] [Türk] [Bahasa Indonesia] [Arabic]
- From crisis to recovery
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- Japan’s responsibilities: the G20, the G8 and APEC
- Naoto Kan, prime minister, Japan
[English] [français] [Korean] [Italiano] [Japanese] [Espanol] [Deutsch] [Portugues] [Türk] [Bahasa Indonesia] [Chinese] [Arabic] [Russkiya]
- Prospects for the 2010 Muskoka-Toronto summits
- John Kirton, director, G8 Research Group, co-director, G20 Research Group
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Dealing with humanitarian crises [PDF]
- Building effective humanitarian responses for the 21st century
- Sir John Holmes, United Nations under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator
[English]
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- Haiti’s reconstruction, natural disasters and the climate change challenge
- Gordon A. McBean, Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, University of Western Ontario
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Spotlight on Canada [PDF]
- Canada: the international gateway to the world
- The Honourable Tony Clement, minister of industry, Canada
- Ontario welcomes the world
- The Honourable Dalton McGuinty,
premier, Ontario
- Toronto’s financial services sector
- David Miller, mayor, Toronto
- Muskoka: Canada’s piece of paradise
- Claude Doughty, major, Huntsville,
Ontario, Canada
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Sustaining economic growth [PDF]
- Sustaining global growth: a strategic approach to development
- Angel Gurría, secretary-general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[English]
- An emerging platform for a new economy
- Dr Tarek Kamel, minister of communications and information technology, Egypt
- Prospects for global growth
- Robert Fauver, former G7/G8 sherpa, United States
[English]
- Generating jobs, sustaining growth
- Juan Somavia, director general, International Labour Organization
[English]
- Making globalisation work
- The Right Honourable Paul Martin, former prime minister of Canada
[English]
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Reforming financial systems and institutions [PDF]
The euro and the Greek crisis: a new international monetary scenario
Paolo Savona, Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome
[English]
Offshore jurisdictions
Amandine Scherrer, associate researcher, Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology, Université de Montréal
[English]
The role of Islamic finance in the post-crisis world
Ahmad Muhammad Ali, president, Islamic Development Bank Group
[English]
Social business and the G8/G20
Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank; Nobel Peace Laureate, 2006
[English]
The G20, the International Monetary Fund and global surveillance
Domenico Lombardi, president, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, non-resident senior fellow, Brookings Institution
[English]
Global development [PDF]
- Keeping the promise of the Millennium Development Goals
- Ban Ki-moon, secretary general,
United Nations
[English]
- The end of the Third World?
- Robert B. Zoellick, president, World Bank Group
- The private sector and inclusive business models
- Lars H. Thunell, executive vice president and CEO, International Finance Corporation
- Modernising the Asian Development Bank
- Haruhiko Kuroda, president,
Asian Development Bank
- Reforming financial systems and institutions: modernising the African Development Bank
- Donald Kaberuka, president, African
Development Bank
- Toward a G20 agenda for global development
- James D. Wolfensohn, chair and CEO, Wolfensohn & Company, former president, World Bank
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Open trade and investment [PDF]
- Trade for the global economic recovery
- Pascal Lamy, director general of the
World Trade Organization
- G20 trade protectionism: a continuing threat?
- Alan S. Alexandroff, co-director, G20 Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs, and senior fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- Stabilising India’s fast growth: Doha matters
- Yoginder K. Alagh, chancellor, Central University of Nagaland, and former minister, power, planning and science and technology of India
- China’s role in a world in crisis
- Tu Xinquan, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics
[English] [Chinese]
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Protecting the environment [PDF]
- Copenhagen’s accomplishments
- Achim Steiner, under-secretary general, United Nations, and executive director, United Nations Environment Programme
- The challenge of catalytic leadership for long-term change
- Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann, co-directors, Global Environmental Governance Program, Centre for International Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
- Governing global climate change: from Copenhagen to Cancun
- Isabel Studer, Centre for Dialogue and Analysis on North America
- The road from Rio
- Richard L. Sandor, chair and founder, Chicago Climate Exchange
- Pushing ahead with carbon capture and storage
- Keith Forward, editor, Carbon Capture Journal
- Building biodiversity
- Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement
- Fossil fuel subsidies and the G20
- David Runnalls, president, International Institute for Sustainable Development
- The contribution of business to sustainable development
- Björn Stigson, president, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- New ideas for the 21st century
- The Honourable Gordon Campbell, premier, British Columbia
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Energy security [PDF]
- Fresh momentum for tackling global energy challenges
- Nobuo Tanaka, executive director,
International Energy Agency
- The sources of clean energy
- Matthew Warren, chief executive,
Clean Energy Council
- Beyond fossil fuels: how the G8 and G20 summits can help
- Dries Lesage, University of Ghent
- Harnessing renewable energy
- Victoria Panova, associate professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University, MFA Russia
- The contributions and challenges of nuclear energy
- Trevor Findlay, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University [English]
- Energy security concerns: do they matter?
- Robert E. Ebel, Center for Strategic and
International Studies
- The Arctic energy treasury house
- Rob Huebert, associate director, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
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Food, agriculture and water [PDF]
- Women: reducing poverty and malnutrition
- Kanayo F. Nwanze, president, International Fund for Agriculture and Development
- The right food at the right time: prioritising nutrition in food security
- Josette Sheeren, executive director, United Nations World Food Programme
- The contributions and challenges of African agriculture
- Diéry Seck, director, Centre for Research on Political Economy, Dakar
- Genetically modified food against hunger
- David Sparling, chair, Agri-Food Innovation and Regulation, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, and Janet Beauvais, Professor of Practice, McGill University
- Tariffs, standards and agricultural trade: what’s the right agenda?
- Sophia Murphy, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Nutrition: the forgotten Millennium Development Goal?
- Meera Shekar, lead health and nutrition specialist, Human Development Network, World Bank
- Supporting the new green revolution: are politics properly targeted?
- C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, University of Minnesota
- Let’s give water a chance
- Loïc Fauchon, president, World Water Council
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- The global health challenge
- Mirta Roses Periago, regional director,
Pan American Health Organization/
World Health Organization
- AIDS in Africa: challenges and complacency
- Sophie Harman, Department of International Politics, City University
- Investing in maternal, newborn and child health
- Nigel Fisher, president and CEO, UNICEF Canada, and Meg French, director, International Programmes, UNICEF Canada
- Overcoming AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
- Michel Kazatchkine, executive director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Cutting and tearing
- Minette Walters, crime writer
- Climate change and global health: the time is now
- James Orbinski, co-director, Global Health Diplomacy Program, and Jenilee Guebert, director of research, Global Health Diplomacy Program
- Development innovation: Grand Challenges Canada
- Peter A. Singer, chief executive officer, Grand Challenges Canada, director, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, and David Crane, consultant
- Health is everybody’s business
- Jeffrey L. Sturchio, president and chief executive officer, Global Health Council
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- A nuclear-free world and Korea
- Lee Dong-hwi, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea [English]
- A bigger table, a broader agenda
- David Shorr, program officer, The Stanley Foundation [English]
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G8/G20 partnership [PDF]
- Hosting successful summits: the Muskoka model
- Ella Kokotsis, director of external relations, G8 and G20 Research Groups
- The G8-G20 partnership
- Andrew F. Cooper, associate director and distinguished fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation, professor of political science, University of Waterloo
- Inspired leadership
- The Reverend Doctor Karen Hamilton, chair, 2010 InterFaith Partnership, general secretary, Canadian Council of Churches
- Are promises kept?
- Jenilee Guebert, director of research, and Erin Fitzgerald, student chair, G8 Research Group
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