The change we need will never come from the G7
3 years, 7 months ago

The change we need will never come from the G7

Al Jazeera  

Boris Johnson went into this weekend’s G7 summit promising to “vaccinate the world”. But by Sunday night it was clear that even the much anticipated – and completely insufficient – pledge to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by the middle of next year would not be met. These leaders wanted to use the G7 summit to prove they could help the global South while leaving Big Pharma’s profits intact. And on the major issue of our times, halting climate change, the summit merely reaffirmed a decade-old target to give developing countries $100bn a year to adapt to climate change – a promise which they have already failed to honour in practice – and made a commitment to phasing out coal, but with no real details. Working as part of the non-aligned movement, these southern countries used the UN to demand a more democratic global economy in which big business and big finance would be constrained, producers of commodities would get a fairer share of global income, and important technologies would be shared for the benefit of all.

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G7 doing what it has been doing for so long: China Daily editorial
7 months ago

G7 doing what it has been doing for so long: China Daily editorial

China Daily  

Protesters make a Trojan horse to satirize the G7 Summit which started on Thursday in Fasano in southern Italy. And yet the G7 leaders have agreed to the United States' move to give Ukraine a loan of about $50 billion which would be repaid by interest and profits from the nearly $300 billion in frozen Russian assets in the West, …

The Latest | Group of Seven summit turns to migration after promising tens of billions to Ukraine
7 months ago

The Latest | Group of Seven summit turns to migration after promising tens of billions to Ukraine

Associated Press  

BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy — A summit meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations focused on migration on Friday, the second and final day of the gathering in southern Italy, seeking ways to combat trafficking and increase investment in countries from where migrants start out on often life-threatening journeys. Currently: — Italian Premier Meloni opens G7 summit with agreement …

G7 ‘outreach’ an effort to build consensus on global issues like Ukraine, China, climate change
1 year, 7 months ago

G7 ‘outreach’ an effort to build consensus on global issues like Ukraine, China, climate change

Associated Press  

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have joined their counterparts from other countries during their summit in Japan to try to expand the G7’s sway and to include voices from the so-called Global South. By including leaders of big but less wealthy democracies like India and Brazil, Japan and the other G7 countries aim to …

Scientists call on G7 to improve preparedness for next pandemic
1 year, 7 months ago

Scientists call on G7 to improve preparedness for next pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Hiroshima, Japan – Scientists have called on the Group of Seven to take urgent action to tackle the world’s lack of preparedness for the next pandemic, warning that developing countries continue to lack access to life-saving treatments and vaccines. In an open letter published to coincide with the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the People’s Vaccine Alliance said scientific advances …

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | What were the outcomes of the G7 Summit?
2 years, 6 months ago

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | What were the outcomes of the G7 Summit?

The Hindu  

The Summit of G-7 leaders, the group of the world’s “most industrialised economies”, was held in Germany this week, where India along with Indonesia and a few other countries, was a special invitee. By cutting out Russia and China, the G-7 ensure the polarisation of the world into the two blocs, even as ties between Russia and China get stronger …

G7 pledges $5 billion to fight back against Putin's war on food
2 years, 6 months ago

G7 pledges $5 billion to fight back against Putin's war on food

Daily Mail  

The G7 summit in Germany wrapped up on Tuesday with leaders pledging to fight back against Vladimir Putin's war on food with $5 billion to help protect supplies. The G7 summit in Germany wraps up on Tuesday with leaders pledging to fight back against Vladimir Putin 's war on food with $5 billion to help protect supplies, according to a …

EXPLAINER: G7 provides forum for like-minded democracies
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: G7 provides forum for like-minded democracies

Associated Press  

ELMAU, Germany — In 1975, leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies gathered to deal with an energy crisis sparked by a war and rampant inflation. The leaders meeting in Germany’s Bavaria state are searching for ways to support Ukraine in defending itself against Russia and reviewing sanctions aimed at curbing Russia’s ability to wage war. That’s a contrast with the …

G7 leaders are guilty of vaccine nationalism – this shameful stance will prolong the pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

G7 leaders are guilty of vaccine nationalism – this shameful stance will prolong the pandemic

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Last week, …

Covid-19 virus quicker than vaccines, warns WHO as G7 vows to share doses
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 virus quicker than vaccines, warns WHO as G7 vows to share doses

Hindustan Times  

The WHO warned Monday that Covid-19 was moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7's vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enough. "I welcome the announcement that G7 countries will donate 870 million vaccine doses, primarily through Covax," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists. G7 leaders "say they want to …

G7 vows action on Covid, climate change
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 vows action on Covid, climate change

Hindustan Times  

G7 leaders on Sunday vowed to start delivering one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines and to step up action on the climate crisis, in a US-led summit call that also took a hard line on China and Russia. “We will promote our values, including by calling on China to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms,” the G7 said. “We also …

G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 leaders agree on vaccines, China and taxing corporations

Associated Press  

CARBIS BAY, England — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations staked their claim Sunday to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and crisis, pledging more than 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer nations, vowing to help developing countries grow while fighting climate change and backing a minimum tax on multinational firms. “What we as the …

From vaccine sharing to climate, G-7 talks yield agreements
3 years, 7 months ago

From vaccine sharing to climate, G-7 talks yield agreements

Associated Press  

FALMOUTH, England — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies have wrapped up their first face-to-face summit in two years at a seaside resort in southwest England. THE ENVIRONMENT Leaders committed to ending new direct government support for “unabated international thermal coal power generation” -- the use of coal without technology to reduce carbon emissions - by the end of the …

G7 Summit 2021: How Are World Leaders Planning to Combat COVID?
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 Summit 2021: How Are World Leaders Planning to Combat COVID?

The Quint  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backed India and South Africa's initiatives to waive intellectual property protection for COVID-19 vaccines and products. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led a G7 discussion of China on Saturday, 12 June, and called on leaders to come up with a unified approach to the challenges posed by the People's Republic, a source told Reuters. Prime Minister …

G-7 summit ends: Commitment on vaccines, climate change; silence on US proposal over China
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 summit ends: Commitment on vaccines, climate change; silence on US proposal over China

India Today  

The Group of Seven leaders aim to end their first summit in two years with a punchy set of promises Sunday, including vaccinating the world against coronavirus, making huge corporations pay their fair share of taxes and tackling climate change with a blend of technology and money. "The United States is back, and democracies of the world are standing together," …

Aid groups appeal to G-7 for cash to get shots into arms
3 years, 7 months ago

Aid groups appeal to G-7 for cash to get shots into arms

Associated Press  

FALMOUTH, England — Rich nations must do more than just donate surplus vaccines if they hope to end the COVID-19 pandemic, according to public health experts and humanitarian groups that are calling for money, increased production and logistical support to help developing countries where the virus is still raging. “So I think all of us should be urging our leaders …

Group of Seven | Reviving the spirit of multilateralism
3 years, 7 months ago

Group of Seven | Reviving the spirit of multilateralism

The Hindu  

As the leaders of seven nations — the U.S., Germany, the U.K., France, Canada, Japan and Italy — meet in Cornwall in south-west England, they would be marking the 47th edition of the “Group of seven” summit. Already, the Finance Ministers of the G7, who had met on June 4-5 in the run-up to the summit, had agreed to backing …

G7 leaders take on China and plan to stop new pandemics
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 leaders take on China and plan to stop new pandemics

India Today  

The G7 on Saturday unveiled US-led plans to counter China in infrastructure funding for poorer nations, and a new accord to prevent future pandemics, as the elite group sought to showcase Western unity at its first in-person summit since 2019. Promising to “collectively catalyse” hundreds of billions of infrastructure investment for low- and middle-income countries, the G7 leaders said they …

G-7 pledge to share, but jostle for ground in the sandbox
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 pledge to share, but jostle for ground in the sandbox

Associated Press  

CARBIS BAY, England — Group of Seven leaders brought pledges to share vaccine doses and make a fairer global economy Friday to a seaside summit in England, where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus pandemic should not be allowed to leave a “lasting scar” on the world. Johnson said the goal of the measures was “to make sure …

This is what young people want to see from the G7 summit
3 years, 7 months ago

This is what young people want to see from the G7 summit

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Composed of the world’s seven so-called largest “advanced” economies, the G7 is an organisation that regularly conducts meetings, makes …

Ahead G7 Summit 2021, UNICEF, 100 heads of states and celebrities write open letter to G7 to donate vaccines
3 years, 7 months ago

Ahead G7 Summit 2021, UNICEF, 100 heads of states and celebrities write open letter to G7 to donate vaccines

Firstpost  

The UNICEF letter reminded the G7 nations the virus sees no borders and with the mutating strains, people will be safe only when everyone has access to vaccines. “It’s almost more important to say how many we deliver the next month than making promises to be fulfilled in 18 months from now.” The G7 leaders are also expected to donate …

G7 Summit 2021: From expecting vaccine donations to hoping to discourage tax havens, what's in store for India
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 Summit 2021: From expecting vaccine donations to hoping to discourage tax havens, what's in store for India

Firstpost  

As the world’s second-most populous country that is just coming out of the horrors of a punishing second wave of cases, India will be a natural destination for any extra shots that the world’s wealthiest nations commit to sharing “Build Back Better”, that is the theme the UK has chosen for the G7 summit getting underway at a seaside town …

G7 Summit 2021: COVID-19 recovery, vaccine distribution, climate action likely to dominate agenda
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 Summit 2021: COVID-19 recovery, vaccine distribution, climate action likely to dominate agenda

Firstpost  

Since the G-7 last met two years ago, COVID-19 has killed more than 3.7 million people and decimated economies with lockdowns and layoffs The Group of Seven countries will meet on Friday in UK’s Cornwall. As British prime minister Boris Johnson hosts US president Joe Biden and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada to the cliff-ringed Carbis …

What are G7 countries promising on COVID vaccines?
3 years, 7 months ago

What are G7 countries promising on COVID vaccines?

Al Jazeera  

Pledges of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to poor countries are seen as an effort to counter China’s widening vaccine diplomacy. Below are the G7 pledges so far: United States US President Joe Biden plans to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to more than 90 countries. United Kingdom British Prime Minister Boris Johnson …

Biden presses G-7 allies for bolder front against Chinese influence, forced labor
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden presses G-7 allies for bolder front against Chinese influence, forced labor

LA Times  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to President Biden during a working session at the Group of 7 summit in Carbis Bay, England, on Saturday. “We’re pushing for being specific on areas like Xinjiang, where forced labor is taking place,” the Biden administration official said, referring to the territory in northwest China where tens of thousands of ethnic minority Uyghurs …

What is the G7 summit? History and significance of the world leaders event
3 years, 7 months ago

What is the G7 summit? History and significance of the world leaders event

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad since taking office includes a G7 summit where he’ll look to reestablish US leadership on the world stage. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, pose …

Boris Johnson expects G7 to donate 1 billion Covid vaccines to poorer countries
3 years, 7 months ago

Boris Johnson expects G7 to donate 1 billion Covid vaccines to poorer countries

India Today  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects the Group of Seven to agree to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries during its summit starting on Friday, and help innoculate the world by the end of next year. Just hours after U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to supercharge the battle against coronavirus with a donation of 500 million Pfizer …

G-7 summit opens with talks on pandemic, climate change
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 summit opens with talks on pandemic, climate change

LA Times  

President Biden and other leaders of the Group of 7 nations pose for a photo on the beach in Carbis Bay, St. Ives, in England Friday, at the start of their summit. Biden, eager to show the world on his first overseas trip as president that the United States wants to again play a global leadership role, has committed to …

G7 to pledge 1 billion vaccine jabs for world
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 to pledge 1 billion vaccine jabs for world

The Hindu  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greeted world leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Friday, offering elbow bumps to dignitaries gathered for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A commitment from U.S. President Joe Biden to share 500 million doses and one from Mr. Johnson for another 100 million shots set the stage for the …

G-7 nations expected to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 nations expected to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world

Associated Press  

ST. IVES, England — The Group of Seven nations are set to commit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday, with half coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K. as President Joe Biden urged allies to join in speeding the pandemic’s end and bolstering the strategic …

At G7, an agenda for the future
3 years, 7 months ago

At G7, an agenda for the future

Hindustan Times  

Nothing could provide more compelling or tragic proof of the necessity of global cooperation than the pandemic which has swept the world and claimed over 3.7 million lives. So I want the G7 to adopt an exacting yet profoundly necessary target— to provide one billion doses to developing countries in order to vaccinate everyone in the world by the end …

Group of Seven: Here’s what’s on the agenda
3 years, 7 months ago

Group of Seven: Here’s what’s on the agenda

Al Jazeera  

G7 leaders are meeting in Cornwall to rally democratic spirits and discuss COVID-19 vaccines and taxes. Global minimum corporate tax “This is exciting because this is the first major G7 summit with a new administration, with new energy and momentum,” said Christine McDaniel, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. On the economic front, a huge accomplishment …

PM Modi to virtually attend outreach sessions of G7 summit on June 12, 13
3 years, 7 months ago

PM Modi to virtually attend outreach sessions of G7 summit on June 12, 13

India Today  

Accepting his UK counterpart Boris Johnson's invitation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually participate in the outreach sessions of the G7 Summit on June 12 and 13. The UK currently holds the presidency of the G7 and has invited India, along with Australia, South Korea and South Africa, as guest countries for the G7 summit. These are leading the global …

Hundreds of former leaders urge G7 to vaccinate poor against Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Hundreds of former leaders urge G7 to vaccinate poor against Covid-19

India Today  

One hundred former presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers have urged the Group of Seven rich nations to pay for global coronavirus vaccinations to help stop the virus mutating and returning as a worldwide threat. In their letter to the G7, the former world leaders said global cooperation had failed in 2020, but that 2021 could usher in a new …

We need more than empty promises from Boris Johnson at the G7 summit
3 years, 7 months ago

We need more than empty promises from Boris Johnson at the G7 summit

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy This week …

UK urges commitment to vaccinate the world by end of 2022
3 years, 7 months ago

UK urges commitment to vaccinate the world by end of 2022

Associated Press  

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the Group of Seven wealthy democracies’ summit next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the global population by the end of 2022. Johnson is expected to stress the importance of a global vaccination drive when he meets with fellow world leaders on Friday in Cornwall, on England’s southwestern …

COVID: UK urges commitment to vaccinate the world by end of 2022
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID: UK urges commitment to vaccinate the world by end of 2022

India TV News  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the Group of Seven wealthy democracies' summit next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the global population by the end of 2022. Johnson is expected to stress the importance of a global vaccination drive when he meets with fellow world leaders on Friday in Cornwall, on the coast of southwestern …

G-7 nations sign landmark agreement, back minimum global corporate tax rate of 15%
3 years, 7 months ago

G-7 nations sign landmark agreement, back minimum global corporate tax rate of 15%

Firstpost  

The endorsement from the G-7 could help build momentum for a deal in wider talks among more than 140 countries being held in Paris as well as a G20 finance ministers meeting in Venice in July London: The world’s richest countries signed a landmark agreement on Saturday committing them to confronting corporate tax avoidance and making sure that giant tech …

G7 ministers to discuss COVID vaccines, animal-borne diseases
3 years, 7 months ago

G7 ministers to discuss COVID vaccines, animal-borne diseases

Al Jazeera  

UK says G7 health ministers will announce a ‘new international approach’ to reduce the risk of a new pandemic. The United Kingdom is set to host health ministers from the G7 countries for talks focused on improving the early detection of animal-borne diseases and expanding poorer nations’ access to COVID-19 vaccines. “We need to make better use of advances in …

Vaccine misinformation travels many times faster than Covid – and it will continue to cost lives
3 years, 7 months ago

Vaccine misinformation travels many times faster than Covid – and it will continue to cost lives

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Global equitable access to coronavirus vaccines …

G7 foreign ministers meet face-to-face after pandemic pause
3 years, 8 months ago

G7 foreign ministers meet face-to-face after pandemic pause

India Today  

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy industrialised nations gathered Tuesday in London for their first face-to-face meeting in more than two years, with the issue of whether to challenge or coax a surging China high on the agenda. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the meeting “demonstrates diplomacy is back.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the …

System change, not charity, will end the vaccine apartheid
3 years, 10 months ago

System change, not charity, will end the vaccine apartheid

Al Jazeera  

The Global South does not need charity, it needs G7 countries to lift their objections to scrapping rules which put making profit ahead of saving lives. Not to be outdone, on the eve of the meeting French President Emmanuel Macron called for wealthier countries to donate 5 percent of their vaccines to Africa immediately, warning: “We are allowing the idea …

U.S. and allies offer cash, but no vaccines, for global COVID-19 fight
3 years, 10 months ago

U.S. and allies offer cash, but no vaccines, for global COVID-19 fight

LA Times  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves to other world leaders, including President Biden, as he hosts a virtual meeting of G-7 leaders on Friday. Frustration and divisions remained after a meeting Friday of world leaders, President Biden’s first since taking office, as they sought to reach agreement on a more effective international vaccination effort. Politics How vaccination efforts across the …

G20 leaders pledge to fund fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, says draft statement
4 years, 1 month ago

G20 leaders pledge to fund fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, says draft statement

The Hindu  

Leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies on Sunday will pledge to pay for a fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world so that poorer countries are not left out, and to extend debt relief to them, a draft G20 communique showed. “We will spare no effort to ensure their affordable and equitable access for all …

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