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Researchers, NGOs, and media commentators have criticised the German and Japanese governments for what they say is a weak outcome on climate policy at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan. 鈥淛apan鈥檚 resistance to phasing out coal power generation and Germany鈥檚 insistence on more public investment in gas undercut the G7鈥檚 leadership at a time when it is desperately needed,鈥澛犅燗lden Meyer, senior associate at think tank E3G. In聽, the G7 said they aim to accelerate the phase out of unabated coal power (where climate-damaging emissions are not captured), but did not set an end date. They also said that publicly-supported investments in fossil gas can be appropriate given the aim of ending dependence on Russian energy supplies 鈥� something the German government had pushed for already at last year鈥檚 G7 summit in Bavaria.

鈥淯nfortunately, chancellor [Olaf] Scholz had a decisive role in watering down the climate policy signals from the G7 summit,鈥澛犅燣utz Weischer, Berlin office head of the NGO Germanwatch. The agreements on coal and fossil gas are 鈥渋n contradiction to meeting the 1.5-degree limit agreed in Paris, which the [G7] states paradoxically reaffirmed in the same breath,鈥� Weischer said.

The wording in the final communiqu茅 leaves a lot of room for loopholes and waters down the text, wrote Verena Kern in聽. She called the elements on fossil gas 鈥減articularly problematic鈥� and says that, even with the restrictive language, they 鈥渓eave the door wide open鈥� for fossil investments. 鈥淓nergy security, as the G7 summit shows, is still seen as more important than curbing climate change,鈥� she wrote. 鈥淎nd natural gas is still seen as a bridge to climate neutrality. A risky assumption.鈥�

In summer 2022, German chancellor Scholz聽had hosted leaders from the G7 at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps聽for their last summit, which was dominated by Russia鈥檚 war against Ukraine and the energy crisis. The chancellor聽had pushed聽for a clause on public support for international fossil gas investments to be included in the final statement, despite an agreement to the contrary signed at the UN climate change conference COP26聽several months earlier.