[Imc-g8-2005] an odd conference?

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Development, Sustainability, and Finance: The Role of the G8 and the 
Gleneagles Summit

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

date: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - Thursday, June 30, 2005 :

category: Conferences

The University will host an international academic conference to critically 
examine the role of G8.
The subjects to be considered by speakers from Africa, North America, 
Europe, and other regions will include: the G8's performance past, present 
and future; the G8's role in development of Africa; financing development 
and sustainability and climate change; and beyond Kyoto.

Speakers drawn from the fields of academia, politics, the public and 
voluntary sectors, business and industry, will unite in efforts to analyse 
and discuss internationally relevant topics and propose global strategies 
of value to the G8 leaders at the Gleneagles' Summit in July of this year.
Those wishing to attend the conference should complete the registration 
form.
If a place is available you will then be contacted about the payment of the 
registration fee of £50 per day (concessions will also be available).


Development, Sustainability, and Finance: The Role of the G8 and the 
Gleneagles Summit

Pre-Summit Conference

University of Glasgow, June 29 & 30, 2005

Tuesday, June 28
19h00: Informal Dinner for Speakers and Chairs Melville Room, University of 
Glasgow


Wednesday, June 29: Development and Africa

08h00-09h00: Registration and Refreshments
09h00-09h30: Welcome and Introduction
Speakers: Malcolm McLeod, Vice-Principal, Glasgow University
John Kirton, Director, G8 Research Group, University of Toronto

09h30-11h00: The G8âs Performance: Past, Present and Future

How well has the G8 performed in the past in meeting the global challenges 
related to North-South development and environmental sustainability? What 
key challenges does it face here at present and in the years ahead? How and 
how well is it going about addressing them, and how should it proceed? Is 
the G8 as currently configured well designed to meet these challenges? 
Would a revised process and format, expanded participation or a leaders- 
level meeting of the G20 help?
Chair: John Kirton, Director, G8 Research Group, University of Toronto

Speakers:
1. The Past: Has the G8 Met Its Objectives?
Nicholas Bayne, London School of Economics
2. The Present: What Are the Challenges and British Plans for Gleneagles?
Martin Donnelly, Director General Economic FCO and UK Sous-Sherpa
3. The Future: From G8 to L20?
Andrew Cooper, Centre for International Governance Innovation

11h00-11h30: Coffee Break
11h30-13h00: Global Perspectives on the G8's Role in Development and 
Sustainability

If the G8 is to serve as a valuable international institutional instrument 
for meeting global development and sustainability needs, each of its 
current members must see it as way to meet their national as well as global 
goals.
What approach do the major members from North America, Europe and Asia take 
to the G8 summit and system, in general and in regard to sustainable 
development in particular? What role will and should be played by the 
United States as the past host and by Russia as the future host?

Chair: Lynn Robertson, Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members 
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Speakers:
1. United States
Robert Fauver, Former G7 Sherpa and Trade Undersecretary
2. Japan
Seiichi Kondo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
3. Russia
Victoria Panova, Moscow State University of International Relations
4. Europe

13h00-15h00: Lunch

Luncheon Keynote Address:
The G8's Role in Development and Africaâ

Chair: The Right Honourable Jack McConnell MSP, First Minister of Scotland
Speaker: To be announced

15h00-17h00: The G8, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals

At the 2002 Canadian-hosted Kananaskis Summit, the G8 offered an Africa 
Action Plan in response to the New Partnership for Africaâs Development.
Furthermore, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals will require 
quick and decisive action from G8 members and others if they are to be met 
by their target date. Have G8 members and their African partners complied 
with their commitments? What has Tony Blair's Commission for Africa 
accomplished? What should the G8 and its African partners do now to chart 
new directions and ensure delivery, at the Gleneagles Summit and beyond?
Chair: Malcolm McLeod, University of Glasgow

Speakers:
1. The G8 and Africa from Kananaskis through Sea Island to Gleneagles and
Beyond
Princeton Lyman, Council on Foreign Relations
2. The Commission for Africa: Accomplishments and Unfinished Business
Myles Wickstead, Head of Secretariat, Commission for Africa
3. Gleneagles African Challenge and Opportunity
The Honourable Goodall Gondwe, Minister of Finance, Malawi
4. Africa and the G8: Political Aspects
Ade Adefuye, Special Advisor (Political Affairs), Commonwealth Secretariat
5. From New York 2000 to Gleneagles 2005 to New York 2005

19h00-21h00: Glasgow Civic Reception and Dinner at the Burrell Collection
Keynote Address: âFinancing Development and Sustainabilityâ
Chair: Liz Cameron, Lord Provost of Glasgow
Speaker: To be announced


Thursday, June 30: Sustainability, Trade and Finance
09h00-10h30: Financing Sustainable Development

Meeting the formidable global development and sustainability challenges 
will require the mobilization of resources on a scale well beyond 
internationally co-operative action taken in the past. What can and should 
the G8 do to stimulate such resource transfers both through official 
sources â aid and debt relief â and through the private sector and 
remittances by
individuals?
Chair: Bill Speirs, Scottish Trade Union Congress

Speakers:
1. Global Perspectives on National Economies
Paolo Savona, LUISS University, Rome
2. Official Development Assistance
Olivier Charnoz, Agence franÃaise du dÃveloppement
3. Aid and Debt Relief
Duncan Green, Head of Research, Oxfam
4. African Finance and Lack of Development
George von Furstenberg, Indiana University

10h30-11h00: Coffee Break
11h00-12h30: Trade: Doing Doha for Development
With the July 2004 framework for the Doha Development Agenda negotiations 
now in place, WTO members face the task of defining in detail and 
delivering in a timely fashion a deal that makes multilateral trade 
liberalization work directly and decisively for development. How well does 
the existing Doha framework point in this direction? What needs to be done 
to produce a deal that delivers sustainable development? What role can and 
should the G8 play,
through unilateral, bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral action?
Chair: Roy MacLaren, former Canadian Minister for International Trade

Speakers:
1. A Global Perspective on the Multilateral System
Sylvia Ostry, University of Toronto
2. A European Perspective
Simon Fraser, Chef de Cabinet of the European Trade Commissioner
3. A Development Perspective
Sheila Page, Overseas Development Institute

12h30-14h30: Lunch

Luncheon Keynote Address: Climate Change Requires an Investment Regime
Chair: The Right Honourable Jim Wallace QC MSP, Deputy First Minister and
Minister for Enterprise
Speaker: Konrad von Moltke, Senior Fellow, International Institute on
Sustainable Development

14h30-16h00: Climate Change: Beyond Kyoto
With Russiaâs ratification and consequent coming into force of the Kyoto 
Protocol, the international community now confronts the challenge of 
designing and implementing a much more far-reaching regime to control 
climate change beyond Kyoto. What needs to be done to effectively implement 
and broaden commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to design 
and deliver a regime that engages all countries, including those not 
covered by
Kyoto obligations? What is the G8's role in this task?
Chair:
Speakers:
1. The British Government Approach
Henry Derwent, UK G8 representative on Climate Change
2. Private Sector Perspectives
Michael Grubb, Imperial College London and the Carbon Trust
3. The American Contribution

16h00-16h30: Tea Break:
16h30-18h00: Conclusions: To Gleneagles and Beyond
Chair: Sir Nicholas Bayne
Speakers:
John Kirton, Director, G8 Research Group
Olivier Giscard dâEstaing, INSEAD
Kimon Valaskakis, Global Governance Group
18h00: Adjournment

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