G8-Verbandspräsidenten und Budeskanzlerin Merkel

Die Wirtschaft der G8-Länder hat hohe Erwartungen an den G8-Gipfel gesetzt.

Ende April 2007 haben die Wirtschaftsverbände der G8-Länder ihre gemeinsamen Erwartungen im Rahmen des BDI G8 Business Summit  und in der G8 Business Declaration zum Ausdruck gebracht. Nach dem Gipfeltreffen in Heiligendamm haben die Wirtschaftsverbände zu den wesentlichen Ergebnissen Stellung genommen.

• The Business View on the Heiligendamm Declaration 
  
  
• G8 Business Declaration
  

• Pressemitteilung vom 28.6.2007:
  BDI warnt vor Einschränkung der Investitionsfreiheit
  
• Pressemitteilung vom 8.6.2007:
  BDI-Präsident Thumann zum G8-Gipfel: Positive Zeichen für die Weltwirtschaft
  
• Pressemitteilung vom 8.6.2007:
  BDI-Präsident Thumann zur G8-Erklärung zum Klimaschutz: "Aufgeschlossenheit der G8-Staaten für globale Lösungen ist ein Erfolg"
  
• Pressemitteilung vom 5.6.2007:
  BDI-Präsident Thumann: "Die Chancen des G8-Gipfels nutzen!"
  
• Pressemitteilung vom 24.5.2007:
  Wirtschaft hat große Erwartungen an G8-Gipfel

25.4.2007: Die Präsidenten der G8 Wirtschafts-verbände unterzeichneten anlässlich des "BDI G8 Business Summit" eine gemeinsame Erklärung.

In der "G8 Business Declaration" fordern sie politisches Handeln in acht Bereichen:

Erwartung der Wirtschaft: 

"G8 governments, as a matter of urgency and top priority, should take immediate action to break the current political impasse of the Doha Round, particularly on agriculture, to secure a result that includes reductions in trade-distorting agricultural subsidies and tariffs, a significant reduction in applied tariffs on manufactured goods in both industrialized and newly industrialized countries, substantial further liberalization of trade in services, improvements in trade facilitation, and strengthened WTO rules. All key players in the negotiations, including the newly industrialized countries, must demonstrate the necessary flexibility to achieve an ambitious result."
(Auszug aus der G8 Business Declaration)

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Erwartung der Wirtschaft:

"G8 governments should increase their intergovernmental coordination to enforce intellectual property rights and also engage in a coordinated, constructive dialogue with newly industrializing and developing countries to improve enforcement worldwide. They should also support business efforts to reduce the demand for counterfeit products. We support the efforts of both business and governments to jointly address global counterfeiting and piracy and we support the development of specific joint strategies for consideration by the G8."
(Auszug aus der BDI G8 Business Declaration)

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Erwartung der Wirtschaft:

"G8 governments should take action at the highest level to avoid investment protectionism and to reaffirm, in word and practice, the open investment policies and commitments to investors’ rights that have served as a key agent of economic growth, including technological innovation, in recent decades. Business calls for greater transparency and predictability in government investment decisions."
(Auszug aus der BDI G8 Business Declaration)

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Erwartung der Wirtschaft:

"G8 governments should address issues aimed at maintaining the stability of capital markets, including the development by market participants of transparency standards and options for mitigating financial market risk."
(Auszug aus der BDI G8 Business Declaration)

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Erwartung der Wirtschaft:

G8 governments should promote, as an urgent matter, the creation of long-term value for green house gas reductions and partnerships with rapidly industrializing countries. They should develop long-term, market oriented policy frameworks to encourage improvements in energy efficiency and the application of new technologies. Voluntary international standards could play a role in this regard. Governments should not, however, attempt to dictate preferred technologies or energy sources, which would only dampen innovation and stifle progress."
(Auszug aus der BDI G8 Business Declaration)

• BDI-Initiative „Wirtschaft für Klimaschutz“
  

Erwartung der Wirtschaft:

"G8 governments, in collaboration with African governments, should improve framework conditions, particularly in public governance and property rights, and support new participants in development cooperation to follow internationally recognized standards. As substantial public funds are still required for infrastructure, quality aspects and life cycle costs should increasingly guide development projects. Public private partnerships and means of protecting investments should be expanded."
(Auszug aus der BDI G8 Business Declaration)

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