Maria Jose, the main coordinator of Greenpeace’s climate change containment project, hopes that the members of the G8 will take up the task of reducing emissions equivalent to 40% of the total global carbon dioxide emissions. The coordinator said that the total population of the G8 members only accounted for about 13% of the global population, but nearly half of the global greenhouse gas emissions originate from these eight countries.

Jose called on the G8 to pass a resolution at this preparatory meeting to jointly invest 140 billion U.S. dollars each year to slow down global warming and control desertification, and set up an environmental protection fund.

Mexican President Calderón announced at the opening ceremony of the preparatory meeting that he had submitted a proposal to establish a "World Green Fund" and hoped that major economies including the United States would actively inject capital.

The Group of Eight is composed of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia. As a coordination mechanism among major developed countries in the world, the G8 has been playing an important role in world political and economic affairs for many years.

The third preparatory meeting of the two-day energy and climate change forum for major world economies opened on the 22nd in Cuernavaca, the capital of the state of Morelos, Mexico. The preparatory meeting aims to prepare for the Energy and Climate Change Forum of the World’s Major Economies to be held in Italy in July this year. At the same time, environmental officials from various countries will further discuss how to sign a new project at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in Denmark in December this year. The Global Climate Protocol makes new arrangements for the global response to climate change after 2012.

Previously, the first and second preparatory meetings of the World’s Major Economies Energy and Climate Change Forum were held in the United States and France in April and May this year. The forum will officially open in Italy in July this year.

(Quoted from Xinhuanet, June 25, 2009)