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Leaving the door open for new gas infrastructure directly contradicts the 2022 G7 pledge to end international public finance for fossil fuel.
Hundreds of civil society organisations from dozens of countries have taken to the streets around the world to demand that the G7 stop peddling fossil fuels to developing countries and stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis.
This weekend G7 leaders will meet in Hiroshima, a month after G7 ministers left the door open to new gas investments, falsely claiming to have ended fossil fuel finance. Civil society organizations in Japan and around the world are urging G7 countries to hold fast against pro-fossil fuel language in the outcome of the Leaders Summit, and instead reaffirm and strengthen the 2022 commitment to end international public finance for fossil fuels and shift this public money to clean energy.
SAPPORO - Today, G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers issued a communique ahead of next month's G7 Leaders Summit that leaves the door open for
G7 environment and energy ministers meet this weekend in Sapporo, Japan, for climate negotiations that are likely to urge more action in a "critical decade", but could also lay bare divisions on ambitious…