G8 5

The Group of Eight plus Five consists of the members of the former Group of Eight ( United States, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Russia) and the five major emerging countries G5 (China, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa (status as an emerging market disputed by the EU and the UN to the industrialized countries counted ) - the so-called outreach States).

The G8 5 was founded under the presidency of the G8 Tony Blair in 2005. He invited the leaders of the five emerging countries to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles in. He promised them a broader democratic legitimacy of the summit, and more effective cooperation on climate change.

On 24 February 2006 was held for the first time the G8 5 Climate Change Dialogue. It is organized by the organization GLOBE International and serves as a forum for discussions on climate change. On 16 February 2007 at a meeting of the Forum in Washington, DC adopted a ( non-binding ) document for active combat global warming. This confirmed the group that climate change caused by humans exists and that he had to be fought. In addition, there should be a global system for the reduction of CO2 emissions. This Agreement shall be defined in a successor to the Kyoto Protocol about 2009.

At the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 Angela Merkel announced the Heiligendamm process, which provides a stronger and lasting integration of emerging economies into the discussion on climate change. This is recurring speculation to an expansion of the G8 to G9 or G13 preliminarily concluded.