sentences:  Members of the Group have also articulated a desire to exert more influence in raising the profile of science and science issues at the G-8 summit level.The growing importance of the G-8 (and now G-20) summits along with the close links between those agendas and the topics discussed by Carnegie certainly underlines the value of the Group.Indeed, the continued need to address major subjects such as capacity building in Africa, climate change and energy futures, global health and pandemics, and large scale research infrastructure have all required the collective knowledge and wisdom of its members.