Nongovernmental organizations fighting climate change on Thursday urged leaders of the Group of Seven countries to swiftly implement the ambitious pledges they made in Paris in December and criticized Japan for thwarting efforts to reduce fossil fuels.
On the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Mie Prefecture, Climate Action Network Japan (CANJ), a conglomerate of 14 private organizations combating climate change, stressed the leaders must scale up climate actions and phase out fossil fuels in accordance with the Paris Agreement unanimously agreed on by all participating nations last year.
Under the framework, governments agreed to limit the rise in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius.