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Environment > Global Warming > Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Create an 'E-8' international forum similar to the G-8 for the world's major carbon-emitting nations and hold an annual summit on environmental issues
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The E8 should consist of four developed and four developing countries (or entities) focused on global ecological and resource problems. Notionally, we propose membership for the United States, the European Union, Japan, Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa-countries selected both for their political standing and for the importance of their ecological role.[...]
An E8 forum could serve four important purposes. First and foremost, it would propel leaders to get personally involved.[...] Second, an E8 would create an ecological board of directors able to operate outside the bureaucracy and politics of large UN conventions. This is sorely needed. [...] Third, an E8 could play a vital role in mobilizing the public by shining a spotlight on core ecological issues. [...] Fourth, an E8 could facilitate a more integrated treatment of global environmental issues, both within and among governments. Too often environmental issues are consigned to marginalized environmental ministries, despite the capacity of these issues to affect the economy and national security.
The engagement broadly produced among government agencies when leaders are involved is essential both for developing and implementing smart policy across government. In addition, an E8 forum would enable a more integrated treatment of ecological issues, facilitating tradeoffs and compromises that aren't possible now given the separate UN silos in which these issues are considered.
[Brookings Insitution - http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2007/01energy_stern.aspx]
An E8 forum could serve four important purposes. First and foremost, it would propel leaders to get personally involved.[...] Second, an E8 would create an ecological board of directors able to operate outside the bureaucracy and politics of large UN conventions. This is sorely needed. [...] Third, an E8 could play a vital role in mobilizing the public by shining a spotlight on core ecological issues. [...] Fourth, an E8 could facilitate a more integrated treatment of global environmental issues, both within and among governments. Too often environmental issues are consigned to marginalized environmental ministries, despite the capacity of these issues to affect the economy and national security.
The engagement broadly produced among government agencies when leaders are involved is essential both for developing and implementing smart policy across government. In addition, an E8 forum would enable a more integrated treatment of ecological issues, facilitating tradeoffs and compromises that aren't possible now given the separate UN silos in which these issues are considered.
[Brookings Insitution - http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2007/01energy_stern.aspx]
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