ABSTRACT
The Group of Eight (G8) and its major outreach partners sought agreement on the central architecture of a climate control regime to replace Kyoto, which would expire in 2012. As climate change became one of the world's most pressing issues, global attention increasingly focused on plans for shaping the post-Kyoto regime after 2012. The climate leadership centred in the G8 had been restored since in 2005 and accelerated in 2008-2009. Recent G8 principles, processes, and some promises had provided a starting point for creating a new, inclusive global climate change regime. Yet there remained much room for the G8 to expand its outreach and lead new plurilateral international institutions that had recently taken up the cause of climate change control. The Group of Twenty (G20) picked up some of the work on climate change, but devoted nowhere near the attention to it that the G8 had during this time.
