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"Real fight" at G7 summit about ending fossil fuel finance – political analyst
(Clean Energy Wire, 28 Jun 2022) The leaders’ meeting at Schloss Elmau in the German Alps is set to be a “historic” G7 summit, says political analyst John Kirton.
Never before has a summit of the G7 summit faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of interrelated crises, many of which were caused or exacerbated by Russia’s war against Ukraine, says the director of the G7 Research Group at the University of Toronto. Kirton says the German G7 presidency under chancellor Olaf Scholz can still deliver on its top priority climate, but the “real fight going on now is ending fossil fuel finance.”
Clean Energy Wire: Is this going to be a historic G7 summit?
John Kirton: It will be a historic summit, first because never before has a summit of the G7 faced such a simultaneously unfolding and severe set of interrelated crises. It was going to be big even before Mr Putin launched his attack on the Ukraine on 24 February, but this added and exacerbated a few more issues – the energy crisis, a food crisis.
Clean Energy Wire, 28 Jun 2022: "Real fight" at G7 summit about ending fossil fuel finance – political analyst
