G-8 leaders are not the only ones busy preparing themselves for their annual summit at the end of the week. Business leaders have also been busy looking at how they can fight poverty and climate change – the two key items on the agenda.

Ahead of the G-8 Summit, top flight firms at the World Economic Forum’s Africa Economic Summit committed to working with the public sector to fulfil the recommendations of the Commission for Africa’s Report.

Stay tuned to hear from Bud Ris, Senior Fellow at the World Economic Forum, who has been working with business chiefs and the British government in the run-up to the G-8 Summit on public-private partnerships to tackle climate change. We’re going to post an interview with him on this very blog, and if you read French, you can catch a live chat on online news site Nouvelobs on Wednesday 6 July:

http://www.nouvelobs.com/forum/archives/forum_334.html