Factbox: G8 draft seeks urgent push for 2015 aid goals

(Reuters) - Following are highlights of a draft text, dated March 12, for a summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in Canada on June 25-26.

It was unclear how far the five-page text, obtained by Reuters on Monday, has been updated in recent weeks. The economic outlook has changed with the shockwaves from a crisis over a bailout for Greece.

RECOVERY AND NEW BEGINNINGS

"Our annual summit takes place as the world recovers from the greatest economic crisis in generations.

This crisis exposed and exacerbated vulnerabilities previously embedded in our integrated economies, our global development efforts, and our collective security. Progress is being made, through the work of the G20, toward the recovery of the global economic and financial system. For development, a decade of investments and policy commitments has achieved some progress toward the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), but the crisis has jeopardized our ability to meet the 2015 targets.

As recovery takes hold, we are at an important crossroads where nascent hope and optimism must be channelled into building a more equitable, inclusive and secure global community."

DEVELOPMENT

"Urgent collective action must be taken to regain lost ground and quicken the pace of progress (toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for easing poverty). We call on the international community to restate...our collective resolve to meet the MDGs.

Among the MDGs, maternal health and the health of children under the age of five are two goals that are lagging particularly far behind our stated objectives. Each year, more than 500,000 women lose their lives from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth...Nearly nine million children die before their fifth birthday.

We undertake to champion a new initiative on maternal, newborn and under-five child health. We...commit to new funding of at least by 2015 to improve maternal and child health in developing countries.

We also reaffirm our strong support for the achievement of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support with respect to HIV/AIDS. While the global universal access target for 2010 was not realized, we take note of the strong progress to date."

FOOD SECURITY

"Food security remains an important global development challenge that we are committed to addressing." (The document will give details of how much of a promised $20 billion over three years promised in 2009 has been disbursed so far).

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

"The G8 will focus on the implementation of practical measures that advance non-proliferation objectives and contribute to our shared security."

One possible text, in brackets: "The G8 commits to a five-year action plan to strengthen the civilian dimensions of global responses to peace and security challenges. To this end, we commit to significantly scale up the international availability of civilian experts to support the rule of law and security institutions; to strengthen the capacities of key littoral states and regional organizations to conduct maritime and river-basin security operations and to ramp up the availability of formed police units for duty on U.N. peace operations."

The statement says that "We must not allow Afghanistan to again become a haven for terrorists and it is time for the Afghan government to become fully responsible for security and governance."

GREEN RECOVERY

"The transition to full global economic and financial recovery represents an important opportunity to enact policies and measures that ensure environmentally responsible growth."

"Among environmental issues, climate change remains top of mind. We recognize the scientific view that an increase in global temperature should be limited to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F). Achieving this global climate challenge requires global mitigation action.

We believe the international community should continue to seek a legal framework for post-2012 action within the UNFCCC (U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change) and reiterate our support for the Copenhagen Accord in this regard. We call for its full and effective implementation as an operational agreement."

In the run-up to an annual meeting of environment ministers in Mexico in November-December "we will strive to achieve a fair, effective and comprehensive post-2012 agreement that includes a robust system of emissions reductions monitoring, reporting and verification."

We continue to support low-carbon solutions such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources...We recognize the important role nuclear energy can play while reaffirming the pre-requisite of its peaceful use."

Notes that the G8 summit in 2008 agreed to launch 20 large-scale CCS demonstration projects in 2010. "G8 leaders commit to take concrete actions to accelerate worldwide implementation of these projects and set a new goal to achieve this by 2015."

(Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Dominic Evans)