The G8 can do something can do something useful for our planet?

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On 4 December 2008, the President of the Italian Council, Silvio Berlusconi, during a press conference that took place in the classroom X of the National Museum of Roman Baths of Diocletian, presented the official logo of the Italian presidency of the first in January 2009. The G8 was born in 1975 as the G6 (France, United States, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan) in response to the need for a forum for dialogue informal Heads of State and Government of the greatest democracies industrialized. The initial goal was to address an open mind and constructive economic crises of the mid-seventies, in particular the oil shock and the reform of the international monetary system after the end the Bretton Woods system and the abandonment of convertibility of the dollar into gold. Since the nineties, the liberalization of capital markets and the increase of its flows along the rise of emerging economies and complexity of new challenges (from law enforcement to change Climate Policy Development) led the G8 to promote dialogue with the developing countries and especially with Africa, where more serious is problem of poverty. As of Heiligendamm summit of 2007 was initiated a dialogue with key emerging economies (HDP -- Heiligendamm Dialogue Process) on the issues of investment, energy, innovation and development. What this forum for informal dialogue between heads of state can do something useful for our planet?