G7 Ministers Agree to Speed Up Long-Term Steps to Cut Pollution
Steam is vented through exhaust stacks at Great River Energy Coal Creek Station coal fueled power plant in Underwood, North Dakota, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The power plant, located adjacent to the Great River Energy Blue Flint Ethanol plant, sends what would be waste heat from the power plant to the ethanol plant to dry distillers grains, the remaining solids following ethanol production.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/BloombergEnvironment ministers of the Group of Seven countries agreed to draw up long-term strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “as soon as possible” to lead global efforts to tackle climate change.
The ministers held a two-day meeting in the central city of Toyama through Monday following the Paris Agreement, a deal to fight global warming brokered between 195 nations in December. Countries agreed at the time to put together “long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies” by 2020.