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Will Toronto's 2025 Energy and Environment Ministers Outperform the Ministers in Turin in 2024?
By John Kirton with Ilya Goheen, Petrina van Nieuwstadt, Nell Sykes, Antonette de los Reyes, Ridhima Sinha, Jennifer Lee, Eliana Tritelli and Anali Arambala, G7 Research Group, October 30, 2025
As the G7 environment and energy ministers begin their annual meeting, in Toronto on October 30–31, 2025 the question naturally arises whether they will outperform their predecessors at last year’s ministerial meeting in Turin, Italy on April 30, 2024.
We will only know when the Toronto meeting ends what outcome documents it produces, and how many collective, precise, future-oriented, politically binding commitments they contain.
But we already can identify Turin’s record on several of the key subjects that the Toronto ministers have on their agenda.
On extreme weather events and their prediction, preparedness and prevention, Turin’s ministers made no commitments, among the 320 they made overall.
On wildfires, they also made none.
On the circular economy, they made 14 for 4% of the 320 overall
On freshwater, they made 13 commitments, for 4%.
On oceans, they made 12 commitments, for 4%.
Thus, on these five priority environment subjects, their total was 39, for about 12% of the total.
On energy affordability explicitly, the Turin ministers made two commitments for 1% of the 320 total.
On oil, they made nine commitments, for 3%.
On artificial intelligence for prosperity, they made one for 0.31%.
Thus on three of the five Toronto energy priorities, their total was 12 commitments, for about 5%.
Thus, this performance from 2024 suggests that the Toronto ministers have a highly distinctive and innovative agenda, as their predecessors made very few commitment on the issues they have chosen to focus on.
It also suggests that the Toronto ministers are likely to outperform the Turin ones on their key priorities for 2025.
Yet G7 environment and energy ministers will still have much to do in Toronto to match the 320 commitments from 2024, with most on many other still important subjects they acted on.
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