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The Group of 78 is pleased to announce that registration for the 2025 Annual Policy Conference is now open. Follow the link provided here for more information.

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion confirming that states violating international treaties and conventions as well as customary legal practices and norms on climate change are open to legal action for damage caused to the environment and to people. This opinion applies particularly to the failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions… Continue Reading G78 Praises ICJ Opinion on States’ Obligations on Climate Change

In this post, G78’s Past Chair, Dr. Roy Culpeper, provides a briefing on progress made at the recent conference in Seville on financing for development. Citing a Carnegie Endowment report on the event, Dr. Culpeper highlights four important commitments in the outcome document from Seville: alleviating sovereign debt burdens, increasing trade access, expanding public domestic resource mobilization, and… Continue Reading Rekindling Hope: Roy Culpeper on the Seville Financing for Development Conference

The Broadbent Institute (https://broadbentinstitute.ca/), a progressive Canadian think tank, recently published an insightful paper by Roy Culpeper, Past Chair of the Group of 78, on the current debt crisis facing low- and middle-income countries.  The paper argues that the most recent wave of debt began in 2010 and has persisted for the last fifteen years, threatening the social… Continue Reading This Time It’s Worse: The New International Debt Crisis

The date for the Group of 78’s Annual Policy Conference has been set for October 10, 2025. As always, you can count on lively dialog with speakers, panelists, and other guests. Registration and schedule are forthcoming.

“It’s your duty to fix Bill C-5.” On June 23, 2025, that’s what the Group of 78 told the Speaker of Canada’s Senate, the Hon. Raymonde Gagné, and a dozen sitting Senators with interests in social, environmental and Indigenous policy issues.  The Senate is to review the legislation during the week of June 23-27 and has the power, opportunity… Continue Reading G78 to the Senate: It’s Your Duty to Fix Bill C-5

On June 19, 2025, G78 Vice-Chair Susan Tanner wrote to Julie Dabrusin, Canada’s Minister for Environment and Climate Change, to underscore citizens’ deep commitment to fight climate change and their skepticism of the efforts to date of governments and the fossil fuel industry. Last fall’s G78 climate conference generated a wide range of recommended citizen actions at all… Continue Reading Canadian Environment Minister Briefed on Citizen-Driven Action to Fight Climate Change

In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Group of 78 has registered its objection to the Government of Canada’s Bill C-5 on major projects as too rushed and giving enormous power to the fossil fuel industry, the major source of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet.  We call for Bill-5 to be carefully reviewed by… Continue Reading Too Rushed, Too Much Power for Big Oil: G78 Objects to Bill C-5 in Letter to Mark Carney

On June 12, 2025, the Group of 78 wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney urging him to speak out in the strongest terms against the defence-spending target of 5% of GDP to be debated at the upcoming NATO Summit and to join with other Allied countries to collectively and assertively reject this goal, which we believe is policy… Continue Reading G78 Urges Mark Carney to reject 5% defence spending target at NATO Summit