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G7 Germany: The Schloss Elmau Summit 2015
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch, with guest editor Andreas Freytag
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G7 Research Group, 2015
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Introductions and leaders' perspectives
- 10 40 years of G7 meetings — commitment for growth and prosperity, peace and freedom /
40 Jahre G7-Treffen — Einsatz für Wachstum und Wohlstand, Frieden und Freiheit
- Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany
- Reality denied will come back to haunt
- Jean-Claude Juncker, President, European Commission
- Working towards shared goals
- Barack Obama, President, United States
- Seizing opportunities to increase growth
- David Cameron, Prime Minister, United Kingdom
- Time to act on climate change
- François Hollande, President, France
- Creating a more prosperous world
- Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Canada
- The future is today
- Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister, Italy
- An alliance of shared values
- Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, Japan
- Towards a stronger Union
- Donald Tusk, President, European Council
- 2015: a year of opportunity
- Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
Editors' introductions
- A summit of success: prospects for Schloss Elmau
- John Kirton, Director, G7 Research Group
- The changing dynamic of German-African relations
- Andreas Freytag, Professor of Economics,
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Welcome message
- Welcome to Bavaria
- Horst Seehofer, Bavaria Minister-President
The G7 in numbers
- A look at how the G7 members compare on statistics ranging from gross domestic product to clean-energy investment
Economic growth, jobs and structural reform
- Towards a more inclusive global economy
- Angel Gurría, Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, explains the importance of inclusive and sustainable economic growth
- Disappointing outlook underlines need for reform
- Structural reforms of the labour and product markets must be implemented in order to catalyse growth, writes Robert Fauver, former US G7/G8 Sherpa
- 50 Decent work: essential for growth
- Improving wages and social protection are key to tackling weak employment prospects, which are connected to inequality and sluggish economic development, says Guy Ryder, Director General, International Labour Organization
- What can the G7 fix?
- Jim O'Neill, Chair of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance and former Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs, argues that the G7 and G20 should become less reliant on the US for growth
- Education for 21st-century skills
- Improving learning outcome at all stages is essential to unlocking young people's potential, says Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education, World Bank Group
- Wealth from women in the workforce
- Julia Kulik, Senior Researcher, G7 Research Group, examines the benefits of expanding economic opportunities for women, and the G7's role in setting a global benchmarkroup
The G7 and global development
- Smallholders: a big opportunity
- Small farms in developing countries must be given more support to maximise efficiency, writes Kanayo F Nwanze, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Ensuring good food for all
- A round table on sustainable agricultural development, featuring senior figures from Bayer CropScience, the
World Food Programme and the World Bank
- Investing in agriculture is the key to food security
- A shortfall of investment is curbing progress towards greater food security, which is the basis for all sustainable development, says José Graziano da Silva, Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization
- A framework for zero hunger
- Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme, on the need for better financing mechanisms, sustained international engagement and investment, if the goal of ending hunger by 2030 is to be achieved
- Interview on the IFC's role in the development of emerging economies
- Jin-Yong Cai, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, International Finance Corporation
The G7, Africa and the post-2015 development agenda
- Africa rising: prospects for growth
- Prudent economic management has helped boost Africa's share of global trade and investment, says Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank Group
- Bringing power to Africa through partnerships
- Andrew M Herscowitz, Coordinator, Power Africa and Trade Africa, describes how the US organisation is taking electricity to the most remote corners of the continent
- Clean and reliable water for all
- Water security is the joint responsibility of stakeholders and decision-makers across all sectors, says Benedito Braga, President, World Water Council
Special Feature: 40 Years of Summits: addressing global challenges
Special supplement by Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG
Global health governance
- Ebola and future health crises: the role of the G7
- Michael Edelstein, David L Heymann and Philip K Angelides, Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, stress the need to improve global preparedness for health crises
- Closing the gaps to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
- Gaps in funding and governance are hampering efforts to eliminate disease, says Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS, and Undersecretary General, United Nations
- Immunisation: not just a lifesaver
- Vaccination is key to economic development, educational attainment and healthier lives, writes Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- The all-of-society approach to fighting
preventable diseases
- Dr C James Hospedales, Executive Director, Caribbean
Public Health Agency, asks for G7 leaders to focus resources on preventing non-communicable diseases
- Global health security: a cosmopolitan moment?
- The G7 must take the lead in reforming global health governance, says Ilona Kickbusch, Director, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Dementia: a new perspective
- Vladimir Hachinski, Founding and Past Chair, World Brain Alliance, calls for new approaches to be adopted in the treatment of dementia and efforts to prevent it
Trade, investment, tax and transparency
- Action against money laundering and
terrorist finance
- Emerging technological challenges demand a robust
response from the global community, says Roger Wilkins AO, President, Financial Action Task Force
- An insurance policy against protectionism
- Yonov Frederick Agah, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization, asks governments to reject economic isolationism in favour of a multilateral trading agenda
- Making trade facilitation work
- G7 countries must take decisive steps towards implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement, says Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization
Financial regulation and institutional reform
- Collaboration will strengthen global
financial stability
- Financial reforms should be coordinated to avoid divergence on key issues, writes Fayezul Choudhury, Chief Executive Officer, International Federation of Accountants
Energy, climate change and the environment
- Resource efficiency: an imperative for a sustainable world
- Achim Steiner, United Nations Undersecretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, explains the wide-ranging positive impacts of resource efficiency
- The G7's global climate leadership
- Ella Kokotsis, Director of Accountability, G7 Research Group,
considers whether the G7 has proved more effective than the United Nations in mobilising action against climate change
- Energy security in the 21st century
- Creating a sustainable energy system is only possible with the
appropriate policy framework, writes Maria van der Hoeven,
Executive Director, International Energy Agency
- Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand
- A clear projection of demand is fundamental to future energy security, says Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General, OPEC
- Financing the transition to a greener global economy
- Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, explains why the world needs greater access to climate finance
G7 summitry, peace, security and democracy
- The danger of feeling safe
- Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and David A Welch, Balsillie School of International Affairs considers the shifting geopolitical landscape in East Asia
- Accountability: a powerful deterrent
- International humanitarian law must be robustly enforced in the
face of ongoing conflict, argues Valerie Amos, Undersecretary General
and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Delivering on the Brussels Summit commitments
- Complying with its commitments is vital to the G7's legitimacy, writes Caroline Bracht, Senior Researcher, G7 Research Group
- The global agenda from an interfaith perspective
- Rev Dr Karen Hamilton, General Secretary, Canadian Council of Churches, looks at the role of faith communities in engaging with
local populations and addressing key global issues
- The civil society contribution
- Policymakers must tackle increasing inequality across the world by putting the needs of ordinary people first, says Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International
- The value of shared beliefs
- Katharina Gnath, Bertelsmann Foundation, and Claudia Schmucker, German Council on Foreign Relations, assess areas of overlap and divergence between the G7 and G20
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