Globe International
The U.K.-based Globe International was founded in 1989 as an inter-parliamentary group between the U.S. Congress and European Parliament. Its purpose is to facilitate high level dialogues as well as informal discussions on key environmental issues, such as climate change, connecting legislators with international business leaders and civil society representatives. GLOBE thereby seeks to smooth the progress of common understanding, and to promote the development of personal and professional relationships between individual parliamentary leaders.
For example, GLOBE has established a parallel dialogue for legislators, business leaders, and key civil society representatives to shadow the G8+5 discussion on climate change through to 2008. GLOBE's Tokyo forum in June 2008 culminated in consensus agreement by the G8+5 delegations of legislators on a post-2012 climate change framework. This paper, authored and negotiated by Lord Michael Jay (Tony Blair's G8 Sherpa in 2005 and 2006), was presented, together with working group papers on Adaptation, Biofuels, Energy Efficiency, Market Mechanisms and Technology, to the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ahead of the G8 Summit in Toyako. The papers can be found on the GLOBE website (see link below).
GLOBE is working closely with the Italian G8 team to prepare for an ambitious G8 summit in 2009 and will be hosting G8+5 legislators' forums in Rome in June 2009, just ahead of the Italian G8 Summit, and in Copenhagen in October 2009, just ahead of COP15. GLOBE International's president is currently Rt Hon Elliot Morley MP who also serves as the U.K. Prime Minister's Special Representative. Mr. Morley was previously an environment minister in the U.K. for 9 years.
Supported by: GLOBE International receives support from governments, inter-governmental bodies such as the World Bank, and also from corporate membership of GLOBE's policy themed dialogues.
