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Today and expecting to hear about this and some of the ambitious commitments, its going to be light on details, but thats the kind of thing hashed out later by diplomats. >> sarah, after the press conference by the president he and the first lady head to windsor castle h for a meeting with the queen. some of the pomp and circumstance at which the brits excel. whats happening where you are? >> reporter: pomp and circumstance is right, chris, buts i want to point out in tes of british ceremonies t...

The world by the end of next year. that will be done largely thanks to the efforts of the countries who have come here today. [ question inaudible ] >> yes. i think the g7 made great commitments on climate change. i mentioned phasing out coal. they agreed to stop the subsidy of coal mining around the world. everybody here at this meeting agreed -- at the g7 i should say agreed to net zero by 2050 plus nationally determined contributions by 2030. they all made significant steps forward towards th...

Different. and there is one other area that is really beginning to worry me more which is that given the scale of ambition in president bidens rhetoric, it is the contest between liberal democracy and autocracy. hes painting this in big stakes. the credibility for the emerging world for the developing countries is really at stake. and if you look at the handling of the pandemic, notwithstanding this billion doses that the g7 came up which is frankly far to little relative to the scale that needs...

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He had to say. we have had some great discussions, but _ he had to say. we have had some great discussions, but we - he had to say. we have had some great discussions, but we are - he had to say. we have had some | great discussions, but we are now going to be talking about climate change and building back greener. all we really need the g7 or the democratic ii to do is to make some bigger commitments on climate finance, on phasing out cold, low carbon vehicles of all kind and more commitments o...

Need to build our credibility with those countries and asking them to make cuts in co2, because this country which started the industrial revolution is responsible for a huge budget of carbon that is already in the atmosphere. we are now asking other countries to make a change. thats why this country put... this g7 summit, you saw many other countries stepping up to the plate and making, and the eu, making very big commitments. im not going to pretend that our work is done. the italian prime min...

Vigilant but i believe this g7 will enable more vaccines and more quickly on the ground. but were not starting from scratch because in february 2020 we already agreed ambitious agenda. it has now been approved as well by the g7. this agenda, according to which the international community will show solidarity, and we initially had a virtual summit, solidarity, and we initially had a virtualsummit, g7 solidarity, and we initially had a virtual summit, g7 sub and a few months ago in which we had al...

Have in the past until i made a change. i am for america first. will: you know, pete, this is something you know a good amount about. you have written books about but traditionally the united states relationship with western european countries has been important because we shared fundamental values, deep values ingrained in western civilization. being back in the club doesnt mean sharing those values. pete: thats right. will: that means being back in the club are undercutting those western civil...

Colleagues on that in order to achieve that result. the discussion that will take place at the w t 0 in the coming weeks will be of the most important and be closely monitored. but this is very commendable and now we need action in compliance with these commitments. we also agreed to prepare for the next pandemic so we have a long discussion on that with president biden and to that effect, we will be working on reforming the who in order to improve the early warning systems, invest massively as ...

G7. theres the summit itself with the commitments that come out of it, and then theres the hard work that follows to put, you know, concrete actions behind the goals that the leaders set. so this process, you know, is very very important. so im a believer in these kinds of summits. its meaningful, you know, when these leaders come together and make commitments, and obviously the challenge is in the follow up action to make sure that theres real meat on the bones of the statements that they will ...