The G7 has an opportunity to lead the global energy markets towards net zero emissions by 2050. In June 2021, the G7 Leaders committed to “net zero no later than 2050” and to “lead a technology-driven transition to net zero, supported by relevant policies”. These commitments demonstrate political leadership and come at a critical time, ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. G7 members – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States plus the European Union – in 2020 accounted for nearly 40% of the global economy, 30% of global energy demand and 25% of global energy-related CO2 emissions.

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The G7 countries, which have reached a consensus on taking action on climate change, reiterated their decision to allocate $100 billion in annual financing that they had previously committed to help poor countries reduce emissions.

The fact that the details of this promise were not included in the final declaration caused the reaction of environmental activists.

Countries have committed to keeping the projected global temperature rise at 1.5°C.

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The widening rift between the world’s two largest economies – the United States and China – has had analysts and market observers using the phrase ‘Cold War’ to describe how far the two global superpowers could go in their increasingly heated dispute. A new Iron Curtain could mean attempts to decouple the intertwined economic and trade relations between the biggest economies in the world, market analyst John Kemp argues.

Such decoupling, however, will take decades and may not be even possible, considering the intertwined global supply chains, including in the energy markets.

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