G7 Sapporo Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial Meeting
Overview
The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting is held in connection with the G7 Summit and serves as a ministerial meeting that lays the foundation for discussions among the leaders. Held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, from April 15 to 16, 2023, it discussed the global promotion of GX, carbon neutrality, the circular economy, nature-positive development, and responses to the energy crisis. The outcome documents include a communiqué and ministerial statement, as well as annexes on the nature-positive economy, circular economy, carbon markets, climate disaster risk reduction, climate action at the subnational level, industrial decarbonization, and critical minerals security.
Key points
- The G7 Sapporo Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial Meeting is a ministerial meeting held in connection with the G7 Summit.
- The meeting discusses transformation across the entire economic and social system, including the global promotion of GX.
- It was held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, from April 15 to 16, 2023.
- The outcome documents include a communiqué, a ministerial statement, and seven annexes.
Overview
The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting is one of the ministerial meetings held in connection with the G7 Summit, or leaders’ meeting, and is an important meeting that also forms the basis for discussions at the Summit.
Based on the spirit of the Paris Agreement, the meeting discusses the global promotion of green transformation, or GX, which involves transforming the entire economic and social system to shift the economy, society, and industrial structure centered on fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution toward clean energy and to achieve carbon neutrality, a circular economy, and nature-positive development in an integrated manner.
The discussion covers diverse areas, including countries, cities, regions, industries, businesses, and lifestyles.
Impact
Promoting concrete actions by all sectors and all stakeholders is identified as an objective of the meeting’s discussions.
Responding to the current energy crisis, including surging energy prices resulting from the recent international situation, is also among the topics discussed.
Details
The venue was the Sapporo Prince Hotel in Sapporo, Hokkaido. The meeting was held from Saturday, April 15, to Sunday, April 16, 2023.
The outcome documents include the “G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Communiqué” and a Japanese provisional translation of the ministerial statement. For the ministerial statement, a replacement version reflecting stylistic revisions made on October 6 is provided.
The annexes include “Terms of Reference for the G7-Alliance on Nature Positive Economies,” “Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency Principles,” “Principles of High Integrity Carbon Markets,” “G7 Inventory on Climate Disaster Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery,” “G7 Roundtable on Subnational Climate Actions,” “Conclusions regarding the Industrial Decarbonization Agenda,” and “Five-Point Plan for Critical Minerals Security.”
Past G7-related ministerial meetings listed include those held in Berlin, Germany, in 2022; London, United Kingdom, online, in 2021; Metz, France, in 2019; Halifax, Canada, in 2018; Bologna, Italy, in 2017; and Toyama, Japan, in 2016.
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