EITI Initiative Beyond the German G8 Presidency

Article no: EN20080115-Article-1.2-2007

EITI Initiative Beyond the German G8 Presidency

?Responsibility for raw materials?, ?transparency in the extractive sector? and ?resource politics for conflict zones? have been important topics for the German G8 Presidency last year. Never before has the issue of natural resource management been higher on the international policy agenda and there seems to be a wind of change. But what exactly has the German Presidency changed, what are the issues it moved forward and what are the challenges that remain, asks Lili Fuhr