G-8 Ministers to Discuss Aid Focused on Climate Change
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Group of Eight ministers in charge of development will meet in Tokyo for two days from Saturday to discuss aid to developing nations at a time when the impact of global warming on such countries has been becoming more visible.
At the meeting, to be chaired by Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, participants will discuss whether donor countries need to review their aid programs to better help recipient countries cope with the effects of global warming, such as drought and rises in sea levels.
Japan will explain its 10-billion-dollar “Cool Earth Partnership” aid program, proposed by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda with the aim of supporting the efforts of developing countries to tackle the climate change impact.
The meeting will also be joined by ministers of eight emerging donor countries, including China, India and Mexico, for discussions on measures to enhance the transparency of development aid by such emerging donors.
The upcoming meeting will be the first of a series of G-8 ministerial meetings to be held in Japan to lay the groundwork for this year’s G-8 summit to be held in the northern Japan town of Toyako on July 7-9.
The results of the meeting will be reported to the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD 4, to be held in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on May 28-30.
The G-8 countries are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Filed by Anita Li under The Environment, Climate Change