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G7 December 2022 Commitments

John Kirton, G7 Research Group
December 14, 2022

Almost all G7 summits, whether they take place in person or virtually, issue outcome documents that publicly and authoritatively report what the leaders have discussed and collectively decided to do. From these documents, the G7 Research Group, based at the University of Toronto, identifies and analyzes the commitments — the precise, future oriented, politically binding statements of the G7 leaders' intended actions.

At their virtual summit on December 12, 2022, at the end of Germany's 2022 G7 presidency, the G7 leaders issued a statement that contained 49 commitments (listed below). Those commitments were led by those on Russia's war against Ukraine with 25 (for 51%), followed by climate change with six (12%), gender with four (8%), biodiversity and infrastructure with three each (6%), and macroeconomic policy, development, food and agriculture, and health with two each (4%).

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Commitments in the G7 Leaders' December 12 Statement

Russia-Ukraine (25)

1. Today, we reaffirm our unwavering support for and solidarity with Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian war of aggression for as long as it takes.
2. We are determined to help Ukraine repair, restore and defend its critical energy and water infrastructure.
3. We will help Ukraine in meeting its winter preparedness needs,
4. will continue to support Ukraine's civilian resilience,
5. and will further enhance our efforts on this during the international conference to be held in Paris on 13 December.
6. We are determined that Russia will ultimately need to pay for the restoration of critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed through its brutal war.
7. We will hold President Putin and those responsible to account in accordance with international law.
8. We reiterate that Russia's irresponsible nuclear rhetoric is unacceptable and that any use of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would be met with severe consequences.
9. Building on our commitments so far, we will continue to galvanise international support to help address Ukraine's urgent short-term financing needs.
10. We ask our Finance Ministers to convene shortly to discuss a joint approach for coordinated budget support in 2023. We affirm that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should be central to this effort.
11. We firmly support efforts to secure Ukraine's immediate financial stability and its recovery and reconstruction towards a sustainable, prosperous and democratic future, in line with its European path.
12. We will build on the outcomes of the International Expert Conference on the Recovery, Reconstruction and Modernisation of Ukraine held on 25 October in Berlin, as well as at the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 21-22 June 2023 in London.
13. In particular, with a view to supporting Ukraine's repair, recovery and reconstruction, together with Ukraine and our international partners and in close coordination with relevant International Organisations and International Financial Institutions, we will establish a multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform.
14. Through this platform, we will coordinate existing mechanisms to provide ongoing short- and long-term support – with particular responsibility of the Finance Track for short-term financial support –,
15. coordinate further international funding and expertise,
16. and encourage Ukraine's reform agenda as well as private sector led growth.
17. We will also set up a Secretariat for the Platform.
18. We will each designate a senior government representative to oversee the set-up of the platform and ongoing coordination efforts, and ask them to convene as soon as possible in January 2023.
19. We will continue to coordinate efforts to meet Ukraine's urgent requirements for military and defense equipment with an immediate focus on providing Ukraine with air defense systems and capabilities.
20. We support the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) efforts to establish a Safety and Security Zone.
21. We remain committed to our unprecedented coordinated sanctions measures in response to Russia's war of aggression.
22. We will maintain and intensify economic pressure on Russia and those who evade and undermine our restrictive measures.
23. We will continue to shield vulnerable countries that are severely impacted by the repercussions of Russia's war of aggression and its weaponisation of energy and food.
24. We reaffirm our intention to phase out Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products from our domestic markets.
25. We reiterate our decision that the price cap on Russian origin petroleum products will enter into force on 5 February 2023.

Macroeconomics (2)

26. We will continue to use all available policy tools to maintain global financial, macroeconomic and price stability and long-term fiscal sustainability, while providing targeted support to those most in need and working collaboratively to strengthen our collective economic security to external shocks and wider risks.
27. We will make public investments and structural reforms to promote long term growth.

Development (2)

28. We will further coordinate to respond to the urgent needs of most vulnerable countries
29. and will encourage private investment in developing and emerging markets as a key enabler of sustainable economic pathways.

Food and Agriculture (2)

30. We will keep up our ambition to address global food insecurity, including through the Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS).
31. We will keep supporting the delivery of grain and fertilisers to vulnerable countries in need and welcome the recent operations led by the World Food Programme (WFP) on this front.

Climate Change (6)

32. Reaffirming our steadfast commitment to implement the Paris Agreement and the outcomes of COP26 and COP27, we commit to urgent, ambitious, and inclusive climate action in this decade to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
33. We reaffirm our commitment to reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050.
34. To that end, and building on our statement adopted in June in Elmau, we endorse the Climate Club's terms of reference as established by the Climate Club Task Force and hereby establish an open and cooperative international Climate Club.
35. Focusing in particular on the decarbonisation of industries, we will thereby contribute to unlocking green growth. We invite international partners to join the Climate Club and to participate in the further elaboration of its concept and structure.
36. In doing so, we will continue working closely together with relevant International Organisations and stakeholders.
37. We ask the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in tandem with the International Energy Agency (IEA), to host an interim secretariat working together with other International Organisations.

Biodiversity (3)

38. Recalling our commitment to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, we will work intensively towards a successful outcome at Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15, in particular the adoption of an ambitious and effective global biodiversity framework, with clear and measurable targets and its prompt and swift implementation.
39. In this regard we are committed to mobilising resources from all sources and to substantially increasing our national and international funding for nature by 2025 to support the implementation of an ambitious global framework.
40. We encourage countries beyond the G7 to join us in this endeavor.

Infrastructure (3)

41. Accelerating our contributions to the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) to make our global partners a better offer on sustainable, inclusive, climate-resilient, and quality infrastructure investment, we welcome the progress on the Just Energy Transitions Partnerships (JETP) with South Africa and Indonesia as flagship projects for multilateral cooperation, just energy transition and sustainable investment and look forward to swiftly concluding negotiations on a JETP with Vietnam, as well as to making further progress with India and Senegal.
42. We will intensify our cooperation within a PGII working group to deliver on our joint ambition to mobilise up to 600 billion dollars by 2027,
43. and on JETPs, we will coordinate through the JETP working group.

Gender (4)

44. Reaffirming our full commitment to realise gender equality and to consistently mainstream gender equality into all policy areas,
45. we welcome the key recommendations by the Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC) and look forward to receiving the GEAC's full report by the end of the year.
46. We thank this year's GEAC for its important work, reiterate our intention to convene the GEAC as a standing feature of all G7 Presidencies,
47. and look forward to further strengthening it.

Health (2)

48. We will step up our efforts on training and qualifying health workforce as well as strengthening surveillance capacities to detect outbreaks and variants as early as possible by integrating the One Health approach.
49. We will continue to support science to develop safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

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