G7 agrees to strengthen vaccination campaigns against Corona
On June 13th, the leaders of the G7 countries affirmed their determination to end the Covid-19 pandemic through the distribution of vaccines and pledged to distribute more than one billion doses of the vaccine by the end of 2022.
According to Agence France-Presse, the leaders of the Group of Seven countries, at the conclusion of a three-day summit in Cornwall, southwest Britain, prepared a plan aimed to confront a new pandemic within less than a hundred days.
In their concluding statement, the leaders called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate in more depth the origin of the Corona virus.
Several non-governmental organizations said that the World Health Organization’s pledge is very small, indicating that the world needs 11 billion vaccine doses to eradicate the pandemic.
The summit also pledged to tackle climate change from a large-scale global plan for infrastructure in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to encourage green growth by stimulating investments in renewable energy resources and clean technology.
The leaders reiterated their commitment to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to halt government subsidies to coal-fired power plants from this year.
Environmental activists see these decisions as weak and demand actions, not words, which they stressed during demonstrations against the summit in Cornwall.
Inas Abdulkareem