The Commission will draw together senior legislators from each G8+ country and address a series of key political questions.  The Commission will have five specific objectives:

• Post-2012: identifying key political and economic hurdles on an international and national basis and suggesting solutions, underpinned by robust economic analysis from McKinsey and the Climate Works Foundation.
• Conduct an examination of the short, medium and long term role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
• Developing a work strand relating to the climate change and energy related priorities for the Italian G8 Summit in 2009.
• Deepening the public-private discussions on key mitigation technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), buildings efficiency, renewables and sectoral approaches.
• Preparing legislators for the ratification process of a Copenhagen agreement.