G7 Climate and Environment Ministers’ meet concludes, states commit to decarbonise power grids by 2035

Source: The post is based on the article “G7 Climate and Environment Ministers’ meet concludes, states commit to decarbonise power grids by 2035” published in Indian Express on 18th April 2023

What is the News?

The G7 Climate and Environment Ministers’ meeting in Sapporo, Japan has been concluded.

What are the key outcomes of the G7 Climate and Environment Ministers meeting?

Decarbonise power grids: G7 countries committed to decarbonise their power grids no later than 2035 and accelerate the phase-out of domestic unabated coal power. 

– They further stated that there is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035, aligned to 1.5 degrees in light of the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Solar and wind power: The countries agreed to accelerate solar and wind energy investments to produce 1,000 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 from solar power and 150 GW of wind power from offshore platforms.

Condemned Russia’s attempts at geopolitical coercion: G7 has condemned Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, violation of the Charter of the United Nations (UN) and disregard to the impacts that its war is having on people worldwide.

Unprecedented triple global crisis: The G7 has said that we are facing an “unprecedented triple global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution that are mutually reinforcing and intrinsically linked.