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Cornwall, United Kingdom, June 13, 2021 - As the G7 Summit concludes, Greenpeace is calling for faster and more ambitious action to respond to COVID-19 and the climate emergency.
Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International said:
“Everyone is affected by COVID-19 and its worsening climate impact, but it is the weakest who survive the worst as G7 leaders sleep at work. We need authentic leadership and that means treating the pandemic and climate crisis for what they are: an interconnected emergency of inequality.
“The G7 failed to prepare for a successful COP26 due to the dire lack of trust between rich and developing countries. Rebuilding this important multilateral trust means supporting the TRIPS abandonment of a popular vaccine, meeting climate finance commitments for the most vulnerable countries, and banning fossil fuels from politics once and for all.
“The solutions to the climate emergency are clear and available, but the G7's refusal to do what is necessary leaves the world's vulnerable. To fight COVID-19, supporting a TRIPS waiver for a folk vaccine is vital. To get us out of the climate emergency, the G7 had to come up with clear plans for a quick exit from fossil fuels and pledges to immediately stop all new fossil fuel developments with a just transition. Where is the clear national implementation with deadlines and where is climate finance so urgently needed for the weakest countries?
“A resourceful plan to protect at least 30% of our land and oceans is missing, but it is urgently needed. In this decade, nature conservation must be realized in partnership with local and indigenous peoples. Otherwise, against the backdrop of the climate catastrophe, pandemics will become the nightmarish norm. "
John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK said:
“This summit feels like a broken record of the same old promises. There is a new commitment to end foreign investment in coal, which is their piece of resistance. But without agreeing to end all new fossil fuel projects - something that needs to be done later this year if we are to limit the dangerous rise in global temperature - this plan falls very short.
“The G7's plan does not go far enough when it comes to a legally binding agreement to stop the decline of nature by 2030 - the climate crisis.
"Boris Johnson and his fellow leaders have dug their heads in the Cornish sands instead of facing the environmental challenge we all face."
Media Contact:
Marie Bout, Global Communications Strategist, Greenpeace International Political Unit, [email protected], +33 (0) 6 05 98 70 42
Greenpeace UK press office: [email protected], + 44 7500 866 860
International Press Office of Greenpeace: [email protected], +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours a day)
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