G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline

The G7 pledged to quit fossil fuels faster and urged other countries to follow suit, but failed to agree to any new deadlines on ending polluting power sources like coal.

After two days of talks in the northern city of Sapporo, the bloc's climate and environment ministers vowed to "accelerate the phase-out of unabated fossil fuels so as to achieve net zero in energy systems by 2050 and call on others to join us in taking the same action".  But, they offered no new deadlines beyond the last year's G7 pledge to largely end fossil fuel use in their electricity sectors by 2035.