ABSTRACT
This conclusion reviews the key concepts discussed in this book. The book finds that during its third seven-year cycle, the G7 produced a large number of specific and often ambitious environment and development commitments, including 34 regarding climate change, 15 regarding biodiversity, 13 regarding developing country debt, and 21 regarding assistance to Russia. Canadian and US compliance with these commitments has generally been positive, with an overall score of 43". These findings very broadly confirm the Von Furstenberg and Daniels results, but with some major exceptions. Both Canada and the US have increased their compliance record over time, both within the third cycle, and in the third cycle compared to the Summit's first 15 years. The analysis conducted in the book reveals the effects of the causal variables by pointing to the more salient factors within the three theoretical frameworks accounting for compliance with Summit-encoded commitments, including regime theory, concert theory and the recent extension of regime theory.
