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  • G7 Data Sets
  • Issue-Specific Compliance Assessments
  • Summaries
  • Coding Manual
• Watch a short video about the G7 Research Group's compliance work, by Ginger Vaughn and Liz Noh, 2016

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Compliance Reports by Year

• 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit Final Compliance Report, June 5, 2024
• 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit Interim Compliance Report, February 19, 2024

Material listed below is available from the G7 Information Centre website

• 2022 G7 Elmau Summit Final Compliance Report, May 16, 2023
• 2022 G7 Elmau Summit Interim Compliance Report, March 7, 2023 (updated from February 22, 2023)
  
  
• 2021 G7 Cornwall Summit Final Compliance Report, June 23, 2022
• 2021 G7 Cornwall Summit Final Compliance Report, June 23, 2022
• 2021 G7 Cornwall Summit Interim Compliance Report, March 20, 2022
  
  
• 2020 G7 USA Virtual Summit Final Compliance Report, June 6, 2021
• 2020 G7 USA Virtual Summit Interim Compliance Report, May 16, 2021
  
  
• 2019 G7 Biarritz Summit First Interim Compliance Report, March 15, 2020
• 2019 G7 Biarritz Summit Second Interim Compliance Report, June 21, 2020
• 2019 G7 Biarritz Summit Final Compliance Report, December 14, 2020
  
  
• The G7 from Charlevoix to Biarritz: A Special Compliance Report, March 7, 2020
• 2018 G7 Charlevoix Summit Final Compliance Report, August 23, 2019
• Final Compliance with Commitments of the 2018 G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, May 3, 2019
• Interim Compliance with Commitments of the 2018 G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, April 25, 2019
• 2018 Charlevoix Summit Interim Compliance Report, February 25, 2019
  
  
• 2017 Taormina Summit Final Compliance Report, June 4, 2018
• 2017 G7 Taormina Summit Interim Compliance Report, April 17, 2018
  
  
• 2016 Ise-Shima Summit Final Compliance Report, May 25, 2017
• 2016 Ise-Shima Summit Interim Compliance Report, April 15, 2017
  
  
• 2015 G7 Schloss Elmau Final Compliance Report, May 23, 2016
• 2015 G7 Schloss Elmau Interim Compliance Report, March 30, 2016
  
  
• 2014 G7 Brussels Compliance Report, June 6, 2015
  
  
• 2013 Lough Erne G8 Final Compliance Report, June 4, 2014
• 2013 Lough Erne G8 Interim Compliance Report, April 25, 2014
  
  
• 2012 Camp David G8 Final Compliance Report, June 14, 2013
  
  
• 2011 Deauville Summit Final Compliance Report, May 18, 2012
  
  
• 2010 Muskoka Summit Final Compliance Report, May 24, 2011
• 2010 Muskoka Summit Interim Compliance Report, February 21, 2011
  
  
• 2009 L'Aquila Summit Final Compliance Report, June 21, 2010, revised July 4, 2010
• 2009 L'Aquila Summit Interim Compliance Report, March 22, 2010
  
  
• 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit G5 Compliance Report [pdf], July 1, 2009
• 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit Final Compliance Report, June 30, 2009
• 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako Summit Interim Compliance Report, February 11, 2009
• 2008 Hokkaido-Toyako O5 Summit Interim Compliance Report, February 11, 2009
  
  
• The G8 and Climate Change since Heiligendamm: Final Compliance Report for the G8 and Outreach Five Countries (G8 Research Group LSE/Oxford), July 3, 2008 (and Interpretive Guidelines, December 14, 2007)
• 2007 Heiligendamm G8 Summit Final Compliance Report (June 24, 2008)
• 2007 Heiligendamm Summit Final O5 Compliance Report (Civil Society and Expanded Dialogue Unit, June 26, 2008
• 2007 Interim Compliance Report, February 27, 2008
• The G8 and Climate Change since Heiligendamm: Interim Compliance Report for the G8 and Outreach Five Countries (G8 Research Group LSE/Oxford), February 27, 2008
• Interpretive Guidelines, November 2007
  
  
• 2006 St. Petersburg Final Compliance Report: Summary | Presentation (June 1, 2007) | Summary Findings (June 5, 2007)
• 2006 Final Compliance Report: Russia (State University Higher School of Economics)
• Governing Global Climate Change: St. Petersburg Interim Compliance Report for the 'G8 Plus Five' Countries (G8 Research Group Oxford), June 6, 2007
• Governing Global Climate Change Interpretive Guidelines, March 2007
• 2006 St. Petersburg Interim Compliance Report, March 9, 2007
• Interpretive Guidelines, February 2007
  
  
• 2005 Gleneagles Final Compliance Report, June 12, 2006
• 2005 Gleneagles Interim Compliance Report, February 9, 2006
  
  
• 2004 Sea Island Final Compliance Report, July 1, 2005
• 2004 Sea Island Interim Compliance Results, February 28, 2005
  
  
• 2003 Evian Final Report, May 31, 2004
• 2003 Evian Interim Report, February 7, 2004
  
  
• Kananaskis Final Compliance Report, May 31, 2003
• Kananaskis Interim Compliance Report, March 2003
  
  
• Keeping Genoa's Commitments: The 2002 G8 Compliance Report, June 6, 2002
  
  
• 2001 G8 Compliance Report, July 7, 2001
  
  
• Compliance with G8 Commitments: From Köln 1999 to Okinawa 2000, July 23, 2000
• Compliance by Issue. See also:
  • Debt
  • Trade
  • Macro
  • Exchange
  • Crime
• "Controlling For Domestic-Level Commitments: An Analysis of the Authoritative National Commitments Made in Canada and the United States from 1995 to 2000" by Diana Juricevic, November 7, 2000
  
  
• Compliance by Issue, June 1999. See also:
  • Active Aging
  • Climate Change
  • Debt of the Poorest
  • Employment
  • International Trade
  • Illegal Trafficking of Human Beings
    
    
• Compliance by Issue, May 1998. See also:
  • Crime
  • Development
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Antipersonnel Landmines
  • Russia

• Compliance by Issue, April 28, 1998
• Compliance by Country:
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• United Kingdom
• Italy
• Japan
• United States

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Compliance Data Sets

• G7/8 Compliance Assessment Data Set by Issue, 1985-2013 (n = 425) [April 3, 2015]
• G7/8 Compliance Assessments, Overall and by Issue, 1996-2002
• G7/8 Compliance Assessments by Country, 1996-2009
• G7/8 Compliance with Climate Change Commitments, 1975-2007 [PDF, updated June 5, 2008]

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Issue-Specific Compliance Assessments

Material listed below is available from the G7 Information Centre website

• Arms Control and Non-proliferation
  • Accountability Report on Arms Control and Non-proliferation: The G8's Record, 1975-2009, April 2010
• Development
  • Accountability Report on Development: The Record of the G8 and the G20, 1975-2009, April 2010
• Environment
  • Interim Compliance with Commitments of the 2018 G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, April 25, 2019
• Finance
  • Explaining Compliance with G8 Financial and Development Commitments: Agency, Institutionalization and Structure, 2006
• Climate Change
  • Climate Change Accountability: The G8’s Compliance Record, 1975–2009, November 28, 2009
  • Compliance with Climate Change Commitments: The G8 Record, 1975-2007, June 5, 2008
• Health
• Health Accountability: The G8’s Compliance Record, 1975–2009, December 28, 2009
• Compliance with Health Commitments, 1975-2007, June 19, 2008
• Compliance with G8 Commitments on Maternal and Children's Health, 1975-2009 [Table], January 7, 2010
• Assessment of G8 Commitments on Maternal, Newborn and and Children's Health, June 13, 2010
• Oceans
• G7 Summit Compliance with Oceans Commitments, 1975-2016, John Kirton and Brittaney Warren, January 4, 2018
• Sustainable Development
• Explaining Compliance with G7/8 Sustainable Development Commitments, 1975-2005, 2006
• Keeping Sustainable Development Commitments: The Recent G7 Record, 1995
• Human Rights
• 2012 G8 Compliance on Human Rights: Freedom of Religion, January 19, 2014

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Summaries

Material listed below is available from the G7 Information Centre website

• G7/8 Compliance Assessment Data Set by Issue, 1985-2013 (n = 425) [April 3, 2015]
• G7/8 Compliance, 1996-2011, June 4, 2013
• G7/8 Compliance Performance Assessment, Overall and by Issue, 1996-2002
• G7/8 Compliance Assessments by Country, 1996-2005

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Compliance Manual

Compliance Coding Manual (November 12, 2020)

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