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Leaders of the seven countries have agreed to share one billion covid vaccine doses to poor nations. They call it a step towards vaccinating the world.
At the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall, the UK prime minister Boris Johnson said countries were rejecting nationalistic approaches.
He said vaccinating the world would show the benefits of the G7’s democratic values.
G7 said in a draft that the vaccine donations built on exports from domestic production with at least 700 million doses exported or to be exported this year, of which at least 50% have gone to non G7 countries.
The group added that it had a commitment to continue exporting in significant proportions and the promotion of voluntary licensing and not-for-profit global production, which has so far accounted for 95% of the COVAX supply.
There was also a pledge to wipe out their contribution to climate change. After the first meeting of world leaders in two years, Johnson said “the world was looking to us to reject some of the selfish, nationalistic approaches that marred the initial global response to the pandemic and to channel all our diplomatic, economic and scientific might to defeating Covid for good”.
The communique issued by the summit pledges to end the pandemic and prepare for the future by driving an intensified international effort, starting immediately, to vaccinate the world by getting as many safe vaccines to as many people as possible as fast as possible.
It also includes steps to tackle climate change, with leaders re-committing to the target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest and pledging to eliminate most coal power.
