G7/8

• informality allows its members to focus on any issue of importance
• flexible in tackling issues
• less chance of gridlock with a wider group
• 2005 Gleneagles summit agreed to major debt cancelation to heavily indebted countries
• pressures Russia to withdraw from Crimea
• extent to which decisions are enforces is weak
• meets less frequently
• membership out of dtatw
• represent countries mostly with western prospective and represents 50% of net global wealth
• unable to tackle issues like climate change
• targeted by anti globalisation protesters
• fails to deal with priorities of the developing world