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	Gleneagles Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gleneagles Agreement was unanimously approved by the Commonwealth of Nations at a meeting at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Scotland.
		The Gleneagles Agreement reinforced their commitment, embodied in the Singapore Declaration of Commonwealth Principles (1971), to oppose racialism.
		The member countries of the Commonwealth, embracing peoples of diverse races, colours, languages and faiths, have long recognised racial prejudice and discrimination as a dangerous sickness and an unmitigated evil and are pledged to use all their efforts to foster human dignity everywhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gleneagles_Agreement (602 words)

	Gleneagles, Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gleneagles (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann na h-Eaglais/Gleann Eagas) is a glen in the Ochil Hills of Perthshire in Scotland.
		It is famous for its hotel, and golf course, and also hosted the controversial G8 conference in July 2005, which earned the area the nickname of "the most fortified golf course in Scotland".
		Gleneagles railway station, formerly known as Crieff Junction, is on the line between Perth and Stirling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gleneagles,_Scotland (159 words)

	Climate Change 'Could Ruin Drive To Eradicate Poverty' By Steve Connor
		In an open letter to G8 environment ministers who are to meet in London on 1 November, Lord May warns that the Gleneagles agreement on aid and debt relief to Africa could amount to nothing.
		At the Gleneagles summit, President George Bush, an arch-sceptic of global warming, did not want climate change to be connected with aid to Africa and managed to separate it from the joint communiqué.
		A major failing in the communiqué was that it did not acknowledge the importance of securing an agreement on stabilising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
	www.countercurrents.org /cc-connor261005.htm (625 words)

	G8 Gleneagles 2005 Bayne's Impressions
		Gleneagles was conspicuous, however, not so much for the performance of individual leaders as for the way they all rallied behind Blair in confronting the terrorist attacks.
		Agreement proved elusive for a long time: Germany and Japan were doubtful about the principle and wanted to ration such relief very narrowly; the U.S. endorsed the principle, but contested the need for extra funds to pay for it.
		The outstanding achievement from Gleneagles was the agreement to double aid to the continent between 2004 and 2010, an extra US$25 billion a year, within a total increase in aid of $50 billion.
	www.g7.utoronto.ca /evaluations/2005gleneagles/bayne2005-0718.html (8529 words)

	G8 Gleneagles 2005 Climate Change
		At Gleneagles, the G8 leaders signed a communiqué which included a political statement and an action plan covering climate change, clean energy and sustainable development.
		Agreement for the G8 to engage with the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks to improve the harnessing of funding for clean technology in developing countries.
		Agreement to support the work of international donor organisations and multilateral development banks as they develop and implement 'best practice' guidelines for screening the extent to which new infrastructure investments could be affected by climate risks and how those risks can best be managed.
	www.g8.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1094235520309 (711 words)

	Dennis Canavan - Dennis' Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The forthcoming G8 Summit at Gleneagles is an opportunity for the richest countries to show that they are serious about taking more radical action to help people in the poorest countries: action on debt, action on aid and action on trade.
		In the 1970s, the same hotel in the Perthshire hills was the location of the signing of the famous Gleneagles Agreement which took historic decisions on sanctions which helped eventually to rid South Africa of the evil apartheid regime.
		Gleneagles 2005 is a golden opportunity to eradicate world poverty so that all the people on this planet have the dignity and the opportunity of building a better future for themselves and their fellow human beings.
	www.denniscanavan.com /diaryview.asp?id=90 (575 words)

	Energy Outlook
		One of Montreal's most visible goals was to lay the groundwork for an agreement subsequent to the 2008-2012 "measurement period" of the current Kyoto Treaty--the so-called "son of Kyoto." Now, it might seem premature to ring alarm bells about a process that wouldn't even take effect for another 7 years.
		However, given the difficulties in the Kyoto negotiations, which ultimately missed including the US or large developing countries such as China and India, it is imperative that any successor treaty have all the parties on board, or risk total irrelevance in the real world.
		The other impetus for early agreement on a successor to Kyoto stems from a growing recognition that the Kyoto Treaty itself falls far short of the dramatic reductions that would be required if climate change were proceeding along anything like a worst-case path.
	energyoutlook.blogspot.com /2005/12/voluntary-mechanisms.html (653 words)

	Gleneagles - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
		Man-made greenhouse gases are exacerbating drought and famine conditions in Africa, and most scientists consider global warming “the biggest single threat to the world today.” This article warns that the Gleneagles agreement on debt relief will not decrease poverty unless it is attached to a strong action plan on climate change.
		In the context of the Group of Eight meeting in Gleneagles, George Dor critiques the recent debt cancellation "deal" for Africa, the Blair Commission for Africa and the rise of Paul Wolfowitz to the top job at the World Bank.
		The Group of Eight meeting in Gleneagles in July promises to be quite different from meetings in the past.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/bwi-wto/g7-8/gleneaglesind.htm (2630 words)

	NET.org >> GLOBAL WARMING >> Gleneagles Dialogue
		The meeting was a precursor for the next round of United Nations climate negotiations, which open in Montreal later this month, and a follow-up to discussions that occurred during the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland in July, 2005.
		Blair hopes the continuing "Gleneagles Dialogue" can inspire major greenhouse emitters that are not parties to the Kyoto Protocol, like the U.S. and China, to finally commit to reducing their enormous contribution to the global warming problem.
		The big "Gleneagles question" was whether Tony Blair and the other G8 heads-of-state would reverse their resolve on global warming in order to accommodate the President's desire for the appearance of unanimity.
	www.net.org /warming/g8.vtml (1142 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Historic Places - Gleneagles: a Highland Riviera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Gleneagles in Perthshire is the location for the three-day Group of Eight Nations summit, which will meet and discuss, among other things, Africa and global debt.
		Crieff Junction, the nearest railway station, was considered too dull a name, so nearby Gleneagles, the seat of the Haldanes of Gleneagles, was chosen as a fitting name – although to this day it is not known if permission was either sought or granted by the Haldandes to borrow the name of their family home.
		Gleneagles and golf go together like biscuits and cheese and it has always been regarded as a Mecca for golfers.
	heritage.scotsman.com /places.cfm?id=716602005 (1137 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Lenders edge closer to debt relief deal
		The G8 agreement at Gleneagles in Scotland on debt relief was in effect a proposal, not a definitive decision.
		Development lobby groups say it's vital that there is an agreement this coming weekend, when finance and development ministers from the IMF and World Bank member countries meet in Washington.
		When the G8 announced their debt agreement in July, their communique also said they would "provide additional resources to ensure that the financing capacity of the international financial institutions is not reduced".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4273718.stm (643 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Out of Gleneagles
		The deadly terrorist bombing in London while the G8 leaders were meeting in Gleneagles threatened to wrench the summit away from its focus on Africa.
		But in Africa the name Gleneagles has a greater historical resonance: it was there in 1977 that Commonwealth heads of state drew up the Gleneagles agreement on sporting contacts with South Africa, a pact that - with some dishonourable exceptions - cemented the sporting boycott of the perverted apartheid regime.
		If the latest Gleneagles summit is to be counted as a success for Africa, it will also take much more effort before poverty truly is made history.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1525720,00.html (538 words)

	Choike - The G8 Summit 2005
		The Group of Eight (G8) Summit 2005 held in Gleneagles, Scotland from 6 to 8 July was aimed to focus on poverty in Africa and climate change but the leaders commitments fell far short of the expectations.
		At their 6-8 July summit in Gleneagles Scotland, G8 leaders tasked the World Bank and the IMF with much of the follow-up on their commitments on debt reduction, increased aid and fairer trade.
		The Gleneagles Summit was a litmus test of the G8's ability to make a positive contribution to making the world a better place if it had the will to do so - and it has failed miserably.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/3133.html (3391 words)

	Guardian \| Poor nations lose in watered-down UN document
		Diplomats at the United Nations finally reached agreement last night on a watered-down document to reform the organisation and tackle poverty just hours before leaders arrived for the start of a world summit.
		This final draft, to be presented to the leaders for publication on Friday, fell far short of ambitious proposals for an overhaul of the UN which was set out earlier this year by Kofi Annan, the secretary general.
		Although some development campaigners have criticised the government for exaggerating the success of the Gleneagles deal, Mr Blair believes he pushed the G8 as far as possible.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5284951-115645,00.html (599 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 26 May 2005 (pt 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		That is why we look forward not only to the Gleneagles agreement on debt relief and aid but to the Hong Kong talks of the world trade agreement.
		In 1999, an agreement was reached on bilateral debt relief, and we and other countries removed the costs that countries in the poorer world had to pay for debt servicing.
		That is a major package and if we can secure agreement on it at Gleneagles, it will not only be welcomed by the Churches in Britain but people around the world will think that the G8 presidency has achieved a great deal.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050526/debtext/50526-01.htm (2903 words)

	Industry News - The IEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The agreement does not set emission reduction targets on participants - the other countries involved are Japan and South Korea - and is not regarded as a replacement for the Kyoto protocol.
		Downer insisted that the initiative was not simply a means of getting around the Kyoto agreement, which he argued would not address the challenge of climate change in any case.
		He also said that while such an agreement may well be seen as helpful, he suspected the US were trying to undermine Kyoto and replace it with a weaker alternative.
	www.iee.org /oncomms/sector/power/News.cfm?PrintVersion=true&ObjectID=7BD4DA7E-E2D8-57DF-A62BDCD2F3120F02 (667 words)

	SEEN
		But we in the US now need to place that same heat on the streets regarding our own enormous contribution to climate change and poverty, both at home and via our investments abroad, if we are going to avoid the heat that is to come.
		"The G8 Summit at Gleneagles was a success because a partnership was forged between African leaders and leaders of the developed world," said Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank.
		The protestors were certainly discouraged that their approved protest of nearly 100,000 marching for full debt cancellation and action on climate change and African poverty had been cancelled at the last minute, due to violence between the police and protestors.
	www.seen.org /pages/g8diary.shtml (2400 words)

	United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		On climate, he is looking for an agreement on the science of climate change, an action plan for reducing harmful greenhouse emissions, and a commitment to investment in green technologies.
		However there was still a reasonable prospect of an agreement on trade, he said, at least on giving "impetus" to the Doha round, and perhaps on measures to help developing countries as part of the Doha round.
		The Commission for Africa's call for an end to all sugar and cotton subsidies by the end of this year and an end to all market-distorting subsidies by 2010 was "a pretty ambitious agenda," said Jay, but stressed it was not out of the question.
	www.washtimes.com /upi/20050705-031948-8713r.htm (1330 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Diplomats have failed to reach agreement after weeks of negotiation on a 39-page summit document to be published on Friday.
		He is worried that progress made at the G8 meeting at Gleneagles in July on aid and debt might end up being reversed.
		The UK prime minister believes elections in Germany and Japan, together with the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the US, might make it more difficult to persuade G8 members to make good on their promises and to widen the Gleneagles agreement to other rich countries.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/001200509150305.htm (594 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| It's not the Marshall Plan, but it's a start
		Under the terms of the Gleneagles deal, Britain, Germany, France and Italy have set timetables for hitting the target set by the United Nations for giving 0.7% of national income in aid.
		There should be a new and expanded HIPC agreement under which debt sustainability is measured in terms of government revenues.
		"The biggest disappointment [of Gleneagles] was the failure to reach agreement on new forms of finance, especially Gordon Brown's idea of an international financing facility," said Simon Maxwell, director of the Overseas Development Institute.
	society.guardian.co.uk /aid/comment/0,14178,1525933,00.html (1274 words)

	Morning press briefing from 28 March 2006
		This year the Prime Minister intended using the G8 meeting in St Petersburg in July, where energy is going to be a key issue, as identified by the Russians already, the Gleneagles dialogue in Mexico in September, which is the follow-up to our Gleneagles agreement on climate change, and the EU to drive this forward.
		Asked if the Prime Minister was hoping to reach agreement on this before he left office, the PMOS said that he knew that someone would try to find some way of working that issue in.
		The Prime Minister saw climate change as a priority and an issue which he had been pursuing since the run-up to the Gleneagles agreement last year and this was an issue which he would continue to prioritise.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page9255.asp (1366 words)

	Blair struggles to win backing for G8 plan - Boston.com - Europe - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		But agreement on Britain's priorities for its G8 presidency remains elusive -- not least due to resistance in Washington -- and securing a breakthrough at the July G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, could test Blair's alliance with President Bush.
		There are other countries we need to persuade over the next few weeks and I believe that if we can do so then the agreement at Gleneagles will release billions of pounds to the poorest countries," he told the House of Commons.
		James Connaughton, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said Thursday the United States was pursuing a whole portfolio of measures, from cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012 to massive research and investment in green technology.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/26/blair_aims_to_win_backing_for_g8_priorities?pg=full (968 words)

	G8 Offers Action Plan for Cleaner, More Efficient Energy
		The agreement signed at a two-day summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, also calls for further efforts to promote clean-coal technologies, renewable energy technologies and hydrogen technologies.
		In addition, the G8 agreement affirms the need of all countries to increase their capabilities to understand how climate change will affect local environments, economies and populations, and to mitigate possible adverse environmental changes.
		And following agreement at the Sea Island Summit in 2004, the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) initiative was launched in Tokyo this April - an important step towards encouraging more efficient use of resources and materials, which increases economic competitiveness whilst decreasing environmental impacts.
	usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=July&x=20050708153632cmretrop9.249514e-02&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html (3010 words)

	Feature Article of Thursday, 11 August 2005
		However, a recently leaked International Monetary Fund (IMF) report, which said some western countries might not honour the Gleneagles agreement, should send shivers down the spines of Africa’s political elite.
		Two weeks after the deal in Gleneagles, the majority leader in Ghana’s parliament announced a new package for MPs, giving them $25000 car loans and a $60-a-day rent allowance.
		But IMF representatives of Belgium, Germany, Holland, Norway, Switzerland and 30 other countries were less enthusiastic about the deal reached in Gleneagles — perhaps they fear a repetition of the profligate spending that landed us in debt in the first place.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=87743 (612 words)

	News & Broadcast - Development Committee Press Briefing
		The agreements now carry the full weight of support of all member states of the IMF and the World Bank, and they set the basis for the next moment.
		The path to complete debt relief is now being cleared--has been cleared. Across Africa and around the world, leaders in 38 countries will no longer have to choose between spending to benefit their people and repaying impossible debts, often the legacy of governments past.
		So that is there. That must be supported and the support comes in the form of the partnership. That partnership is the spirit of Monterrey, it is the spirit of the NEPAD agreement, and that is now--that comes to fruition because of the nature of the agreement struck.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20660264~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html (2115 words)

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