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The meeting of G-7 Environment Ministers begins

The G7 Environment and Energy Ministers have met in Sapporo (northern Japan), where talks began with a focus on achieving a fossil fuel-free society and energy security after the invasion of Ukraine.

“We face challenges like the soaring oil, gas, and coal prices, unstable energy markets that we have never experienced before, and economic insecurity,” Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said today during his opening speech at the meeting.

In this sense, Nishimura affirmed that the countries of the group of 7 -formed by Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, to which the EU joins- must simultaneously take action to solve climate change, as a common challengebut also to “guarantee energy security”.

The two-day meeting that started this Saturday will conclude with the signing of the “Hokkaido-Sapporo Declaration”, which proposes work with the private sector to introduce new technologies and fuels for a “green transformation”, or GX -as Tokyo calls it-, according to the first draft published by local media.