FACTBOX-Key issues for June G8 summit in Germany

(Reuters) - Leaders from the world's major industrialised nations meet in the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm on June 6-8 for a Group of Eight (G8) summit.

Below are some of the key issues surrounding the meeting, which is being hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

CLIMATE CHANGE

Germany has been pressing G8 partners for months to commit to fixed, quantifiable targets for reducing the greenhouse gases blamed for swelling sea levels and climate swings, but it has run up against strong resistance from the United States, and to a lesser extent countries like Canada and Russia.

U.S. President George W. Bush's announcement last week of his own climate strategy, which envisions convening big polluting countries to begin forging a global climate consensus, appears to have doomed the slim chances Merkel may have had of sealing an ambitious agreement in Heiligendamm.

AFRICA

A pledge made at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to double development aid by 2010 will be reiterated amid claims from aid organisations that some G8 nations are lagging far behind on their commitments. G8 countries are also expected to commit more funds to fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa.

As part of an outreach programme, leaders from Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa will attend, as will African Union president Ghana.