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TUAC Evaluation of the Outcome of the G8 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit - July 2008

09/07/2008

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Overview

1. Trade unions had four major objectives in their presentation to leaders prior to the Hokkaido Summit. Firstly to ensure that the commitments that had been given at past summits were lived up to, most notably with regard to the commitments given to raise aid levels at the Gleneagles Summit in 2005. Secondly to develop the social dimension of globalisation, and in particular follow up the conclusions of the Heiligendamm Summit in 2008. Thirdly to move forward the agenda on climate change reduction and in particular to take on board the conclusions of the G8 Labour Ministers meeting that called for a workplace dimension to climate change and supported the ILO’s green jobs agenda. Fourthly unions called for action by the leaders to respond effectively to the triple crises   the financial crisis, the food crisis and the energy crisis – all of which had developed over the past year. These and more detailed points were contained in the trade union statement to the summit delivered to Prime Minister Fukuda of Japan in May.

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