Monique Barbut

France's G7 Environment Agenda Lists Five Priorities. Climate Change Is Not One of Them.

Opening a two-day ministerial meeting in Paris on April 23, France's presidency of the G7 published an agenda built around biodiversity finance, desertification, the ocean, water, and real-estate resilience to disasters. Climate change is addressed only as one of three COPs to be discussed in a "political exchange" — a downgrade from its central billing at previous G7 Environment meetings.