Climate change no longer top issue for g8

07.08.08 The G8 summit which opens on the Japanese island of Hokkaido today looks set to focus more on the oil price, food prices and African development than on climate change, according to the BBC website, CNN and the Guardian, which sees the 'three Fs' - food, fuel and finance - on top of the G8 agenda. We find this interesting from a business perspective because it shows how the wider sustainability agenda reveals itself as a market force in different forms at different times, depending on which global political issues are most prominent. Corporate sustainability strategies need to reflect this, taking care to address the related underlying issues which drive global thinking on sustainability, and not only those which happen to be prominent in the headlines when the strategy is being signed-off. The G8 (Group of Eight) - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the US - opens its doors on this occasion to include around 15 other countries, including eight African states. See All News