Climate and energy ministers from the Group of Seven nations have announced that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their energy sectors by 2035, with the goal of an “eventual” complete phaseout.
The announcement by Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the US comes at the end of a three-day summit in Berlin and follows the European Union’s decision to find new energy sources and cut its reliance on Russian oil and gas as a response to the invasion of Ukraine.
The ministers also said they would raise their ambitions with regard to renewable energies and "rapidly scale up the necessary technologies and policies for the clean energy transition."
Germany, the current chair of the G7, has been one of the main drivers of this commitment. After taking office in December, the German coalition government vowed to bring forward the country's own coal phaseout plan by eight years to 2030 and has been pushing other...