SAPPORO, Japan: The Group of Seven (G7) pledged on Sunday (Apr 16) to speed up the phase-out of fossil fuels and urged other countries to do the same, but did not set any new deadlines on the exit from polluting energy sources such as coal.
In a statement following two days of talks in Japan, climate and environment ministers from the leading developed nations outlined efforts to keep global warming under the key 1.5 degree Celsius limit.
They vowed to "accelerate the phase-out of unabated fossil fuels so as to achieve net zero in energy systems by 2050 at the latest ... and call on others to join us in taking the same action".
But the group did not offer any new deadlines beyond last year's G7 pledge to largely end fossil fuel use in their electricity sectors by 2035.
France's energy transition minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said the wording on a fossil fuel "phase-out" was nonetheless a "strong step forward" ahead of the G20 and COP28 summits later this year.
"The most important progress we have made is clearly the fact that we agree to move away from non-carbon-offset fossil fuels," she told AFP.
Britain and France had proposed a new goal of ending "unabated" coal power - which does not take steps to offset emissions - in G7 electricity systems within this decade.
But with global energy supplies still squeezed by the war in Ukraine, that target faced pushback from other members, including bloc president Japan and the United States.
"I would obviously have liked to have been able to make a commitment to phase out coal by 2030," Pannier-Runacher said.
"This was not possible, and it is one issue on which we can still make progress in forthcoming discussions, particularly at COP28."
CALL TO REDUCE "GAS DEMAND"
The G7, which also includes Germany, Italy, Canada and the EU, all target net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner after signing the Paris Agreement to cap warming at well under 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The ministers had been under pressure to announce ambitious steps after a major UN climate report warned last month that 1.5 degrees Celsius increases would be seen in about a decade without "rapid and far-reaching" action.
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