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The G7 and climate change

Bauer, Steffen / Clara Brandi / Mariya Aleksandrova
External Publications (2025)

in: Andrea Freytag / Peter Draper (Hrsg.), The Elgar Companion to the G7, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 154-174

ISBN: 978-1-03-530210-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035302116.00018
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This chapter discusses the uptake of climate change as a global challenge by the G7 and how climate-related policies evolved as items on the G7’s agenda. The focus is in particular on the G7’s role and approach to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and corresponding linkages to international cooperation. Accordingly, it traces the co-evolution of climate change as an emergent issue of international politics and cooperation vis-à-vis the unfolding uptake of climate change on the agenda of the G7/ G8 from the 1990s onwards. It then zooms in closer to review the G7’s major climate-related commitments and initiatives in the decade since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in particular. What have been the G7’s key initiatives with regard to global climate policy and finance? How do they interact with the processes of multilateral climate governance? What has been their impact on international climate cooperation, especially with regard to meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement? Addressing these questions, the chapter presents a thorough review of G7 initiatives, focusing especially on G7 declarations and designated initiatives since the 2015 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, as the summit immediately preceding the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

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