Nigeria will benefit from the leadersâ commitment to fight climate change, and more, writes Catriona Laing
The G7 has long been a forum for decisive international action on the greatest challenges of our time. Last weekend, leaders from G7 Members countries, were joined by South Africa, Australia, India and the Republic of Korea at a summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, in the south west of Britain. Outcomes from the summit on global health, COVID-19, climate change and biodiversity, and global trade will be of direct benefit to the people of Nigeria.
The Carbis Bay Declaration on health showed G7 countriesâ determination to ensure the global devastation caused by coronavirus is never repeated. G7 leaders reaffirmed their support to end the pandemic in 2022 and agreed to send one billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses to developing countries. The UK will contribute 100 million of these, including five million in the coming weeks.
G7 leaders were on Sunday urged to take urgent action to secure the future of the planet, as they finalised new conservation and emissions targets to curb climate change, and wrapped up a three-day summit where revived Western unity has been on show
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