俄羅斯總統普汀在八大工業國高峰會前參與非政府組織會議，並承諾將把會中的決議置入高峰會的議程討論。在會中，數個世界最大的非政府組織提出反制更多核電廠的興建，以及對溫室效應氣體排放的直接控制等議題。今年的G8高峰會將在7月15日至17日於俄羅斯的聖彼得堡舉行。
7月3日至4日，超過100個非政府機構（他們有些代表其他數百個環境團體）於莫斯科合辦一場「八大工業國國民論壇」，這是今年八大工業國（G8）高峰會前夕的一項新活動。
針對全球能源安全議題，八大工業國國民論壇中闡述人類使用石化燃料乃是導致全球暖化和一切後續環境傷害的直接原因。
根據會議宣言：「無節制地開發、運輸和焚燒石化燃料對環境所帶來的負面壓力，導致人為氣候轉變和其他環境變遷，包括颶風、乾旱、水災、雪崩、永凍冰層快速融化等等，繼而動搖全球經濟穩定和影響人類健康。」
論壇並強調，儘管使用核能不會釋出溫室氣體，但他們並不因而支持發展核能，「與會者縱有不同觀點，多數者仍同意核能並非一種穩定的能源，故堅信放棄使用核能才是正確之路。」
7月4日，俄羅斯總統普汀和這些非政府組織會面時，一群環保人士在普汀面前手持標語呼喊「拒絕核能！」
普汀面對呼喊聲浪時僅表示，「這些民眾有權表達意見，他們亦為此而來；儘管八大工業國恐怕無法即刻放棄發展核能，仍尊重他們陳情的機會。」
八大工業國國民論壇會議聲明稿指出，目前普行的能源系統亟需轉型為另一套安全的能源發展方式，並在節約能源和有效使用再生能源和燃料的基礎上，顧及全球能源使用的安全性。
普汀表示，八大工業國領袖將在高峰會中討論核能議題：「討論主軸將放在原子能安全使用議題，而非原子能後續發展。」
A ban on further development of nuclear power, and strict controls on greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming were among the recommendations of some of the world's largest nongovernmental organizations in advance of the Group of Eight summit, which Russia will host July 15 to 17 in St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the NGOs and promised to bring their resolutions up for discussion at the G8 Summit.
More than 100 nongovernmental organizations from around the world, some representing hundreds of other groups, held a two day forum in Moscow Monday and Tuesday by means of a process called the Civil Eight 2006 that is new this year to the G8 cycle of meetings.
The Civil G8 statement on global energy security began with the declaration that human combustion of fossil fuels is directly responsible for global warming and all its environmental consequences.
"Non-controlled growth of production, transportation and burning of fossil fuels has negative, oppressive impact to the environment, and results in negative anthropogenic climate change, growth of the related negative phenomena – hurricanes, droughts, floods, avalanching, ablation of permafrost, etc., and thereby raises danger to stability of the global economics, life and health of humans," according to the statement.
The forum emphasized that nuclear power, while it does not emit the greenhouse gases, is not a climate change solution they can support. "In spite of different points of view, worded by participants of the round table," the Civil G8 said, "most of them consider that nuclear energy is not a stable way of the energy development, and insist on abandoning of nuclear energy use."
Meeting with the NGO forum participants July 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin was confronted with a group holding a banner reading, "No to nuclear power! No to nuclear power!"
Putin tolerated the demonstration, saying, "Let the people do their thing. We won't get in their way. They came here to make themselves heard, and we must give them that opportunity."
The Civil G8 say in their statement that there is a "crying need to change the prevailing energy paradigm, transfer to stable energy development in order to ensure global energy safety on the basis of energy saving and efficient use of new and renewable sources of fuel and power."
Putin said that the G8 leaders have agreed to discuss nuclear energy at the Summit. "The subject under discussion in Saint Petersburg in relation to atomic energy will not be development of atomic energy worldwide, but rather issues of ensuring the security of atomic energy," said Putin.
