G8 & G20 2013 Summits Calendar and Background

(27 January, 2013)

2012 December 1

Russian Federations G20 Presidency began

2013 January 1
10 23-27 28-29 February 13 14-16 17-18 19-20 21-22 25-26 17-18 26-27 March 3-4 26-27 26-28 April

UK G8 Presidency began
Civil G20 Troika (Russia, Mexico, Australia) conference call World Economic Forum (in 2012 the B20 met after the WEF) G8 Sherpa meeting G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group G20 Finance Ministers & Central Banks G20 Civil society co-chairs meet G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group G20 Task Force on Employment G20 Anti-corruption Working Group G20 Civil society co-chairs meet G20 Development Working Group G20 Sherpa meeting 5th BRICS Summit, Durban World Social Forum, Tunis G20 Energy Sustainability Working Group Anti-corruption Working Group (Vancouver) G8 Foreign Ministers meet G20 Finance Ministers & Central Banks World Bank/ IMF spring meetings G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Presidents meeting G20 Development Working Group G20 Sherpa meeting G20 Task Force on Employment Eurodad conference, Prague Financial Stability Board Plenary meeting G20 Finance Ministers and Central Banks Possible Civil 20 Summit Possible Ag and Nutrition event, leads DFID & PM (no pledging) G8 Summit: Lough Erne, Northern Ireland (with no media center) St. Petersburg Economic Forum Y20 Summit Business 20 Summit G20 Development Working Group B20 and L20 G20 Labor Ministers meet with B20 and L20, Finance Ministers G20 Sherpas meet G20 Finance Ministers and Sherpas meet G20 Summit, Constantine Palace, St. Petersburg Davos London Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow South Africa Tunisia

10-11 18-19 19-21 May 10-11 16-17 18-19 June 3-4 3-5 5-6 6-7 13-14? 17-18 (Mon-Tues) 19-21 18-21 20-21 July 8-10 17 18-20 25-26 September 2-5 5-6

Canada London Washington Washington London Moscow

St Petersburg St Petersburg Czech Rep St Petersburg St Petersburg

Russia UK UK Russia
St Petersburg

Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow

Russia

2013 UK G8 Summit (June 17-18) Not a pledging summit, development related agenda items (first 3 are the UKs priorities): 1. Trade liberalization, addressing trade barriers, supporting WTO Ministerial meeting in 12/13. 2. Tax Reform: avoidance and abuse, information exchange, strengthening international tax standards, tax havens, improve tax information exchange, and work with developing countries to improve tax collection. 3. Transparency of company and land ownership, accountability, and open government around aid to poor countries, e.g.: extractive industries.
Golden thread of development: rule of law, absence of conflict and corruption, property rights and strong institutions. 5. G8 Accountability report 6. Sexual violence in conflict areas 7. Food security / nutrition / hunger (Separate event, no pledging) 4. UK G8 Sherpa: Ivan Rogers: Barclays Capital (2010 to 2011), Citigroup (2006 to 2010), PM staff (2003-06) DFID: Secretary of State for International Development: Justine Greening MP G20 2013 Russian Federation G20 Summit (September 5-6) Russian G20 Sherpa: Ms. Ksenya Yudaeva UK G20 Sherpa: Tom Scholar, HM Treasury, former UK Executive Director at IMF and World Bank Agenda: 1. Strengthening Financial Regulations 2. Enhancing Multilateral Trade 3. Energy Sustainability (infrastructure and regulation, energy markets, green growth, GMEP Initiative) 4. Framework for Strong, sustainable and balanced growth 5. Financing for Investment 6. Jobs and employment (structural unemployment, vulnerable groups) 7. Development for all (food security, infrastructure, human capital, financial inclusion, Post MDGs) 8. International monetary Reform (IMF quotas and governance reform, Government borrowing and public debt sustainability) 9. Fighting Corruption Civil20 Co-Chairs: Elena Topoleva-Soldunova, Commission on Social Policies, Labor, Living Standards, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of the Working Group on Development of NGO Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Marina Larionova, Head, Higher School of Economics, International Organizations Research Institute Alena Peryshkina Director, AIDS infoshare Civil20 Working Groups Co-Chairs: Environmental Sustainability and Energy o Environmental Sustainability Issues: Evgeniy Shvarts (Russia) | eshvarts_CivilG20@wwf.ru, (WWF Russia) Galina Angarova (USA, Pacific Environment) o Energy Issues: Vladimir Chuprov (Russia Greenpeace), Peter Wooders (Canada, International Institute for Sustainable Development) Food Security Vladimir Chernigov (Russia, Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute)

Anti-corruption Kirill Kabanov (Russia, Chairman, National Anti-corruption Committee of Russia) Casey Kelso (Germany, Transparency International) | ckelso@transparency.org Post MDGs Elena Konovalova (Russia, Oxfam) Financial inclusion and financial education Dmitry Golubovsky (Russia, ATON) Farah Mohamed (Canada, G(irls)20) | farah.mohamed@girls20summit.com Jobs and Employment Elena Yatsenko (Russia, Eurasia Heritage Foundation) | G20civil.JandE@fundeh.org Global Financial Architecture Peter Lanzet (Germany) and Igor Lavrosky (Russia)
Nancy Alexander (Boell, US), Peter Wahl (WEED), Aldo Caliari (Center of Concern, US)

Civil20 Civil20 Society Task Force on Equity Chair: John Kirton, Founder and Co-director, G20 Research Group, the University of Toronto Co-Chair: Marina Larionova, Head, HSE International Organizations Research Institute, Co-chair of G8&G20 NGOs Working Group Civil Troika Coordinators: Evgeny Shwarts, WWF Russia | eshvarts_CivilG20@wwf.ru Carlos Zarco, Oxfam Mexico | carloszarco@oxfammexico.org Rev. Tim Costello / Nancy Waites, World Vision and ACFID, Australia G20 Employment Task Force: formed in Cannes June 2011, initial meeting in Mexico December 2011, focus on youth employment. B20 Task Forces 1. Trade, 2. Investments and Infrastructure, 3. Finance, 4. Global Priorities for Innovation and Development, 5. Job Creation and Investments in Human Capital, 6. Transparency and Anticorruption Activity, 7. G20-B20 Dialogue Efficiency. Future Summits: Year G8 2014 Russia 2015 Germany 2016 Japan 2017 Italy 2018 Canada 2019 France Previous Summits G20 Year G8 Australia (11/15-16) 2007 Germany, Heiligendamm, June Turkey Japan: Hokkaido, July 2008 Italy: LAquila, June 2009 Canada: Muskoka. June 2010 France: Deauville, May 2011 US, Camp David, May 2012

G20 Washington, Nov

London (4), Pittsburgh (9)

Toronto (6) Seoul (11) Cannes, November

Mexico, Los Cabos, June

G20 Countries and Institutions (G8 countries in bold, BRICS in italics) Argentina China Indonesia Turkey Russia Australia Saudi Arabia France Italy United Kingdom Brazil South Africa Germany Japan United States India Mexico South Korea European Union Canada Additional participants: World Bank, IMF, OECD, ILO, UN, WTO, Financial Stability Board

Useful web sites G20: www.G20civil.com

www.dialogues.civil20.org http://www.g20.org/events/
www.g20.org/index.php/en/anticorruption, (G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group) www.B20russia.com/en (Business 20 web site) G8: www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/g8-2013 DFID, and food security: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/what-we-do/who-we-work-with/international-community/the-g8/ G8 events and meetings: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g8-events Bond 2013 G8 page: http://www.bond.org.uk/pages/g8-uk-2013.html

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John Ruthrauff, Director, International Advocacy InterAction - jruthrauff@InterAction.org