German env min emphasises G7 responsibility ahead of minister meeting
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The G7 countries cause a large part of the world's resource consumption and the associated damage to the climate and environment and thus have to 鈥渁ccept their responsibility to protect our environment and nature,鈥 ahead of a key minister meeting in Japan. G7 climate, energy and environment ministers are due to , as one of several 聽meetings throughout the year to prepare the . Lemke said she was confident that she and her colleagues would 鈥渄emonstrate our determination to tackle the three existential crises of our time - the climate crisis, species extinction and the pollution crisis.鈥
that ahead of the meeting the G7 were butting heads over the timeline for phasing out coal-fired power. Draft communique documents seen by Bloomberg showed the European Union, the U.S. and Japan had expressed reservations about a UK proposal to set a 2030 deadline for phasing out unabated domestic coal power generation. Germany鈥檚 government aims to pull forward the country鈥檚 coal exit 鈥渋deally鈥 to 2030, but especially eastern German coal states have reservations. Until this conflict is resolved, Germany is unlikely to sign on to any international agreements unless the language is changed accordingly. Last year, the G7 agreed to predominantly decarbonise electricity by 2035.
The Japanese G7 presidency has put the green transformation at the top of its agenda, but that the country aims to prolong fossil fuels by promoting carbon capture, gas and the co-firing of ammonia at coal power plants. that the draft communique for the ministers meeting mentioned ammonia as a hydrogen derivative as an "effective emission reduction" tool.