The agreements, which will be put to leaders next month at the G-7 summit in Elmau, Germany, were largely welcomed by climate activists. In practice, this means countries need to phase out coal by 2030 at the latest,” said Luca Bergamaschi, director of Rome-based campaign group ECCO. G-7 members Britain, France and Italy have already set themselves deadlines to stop burning coal for electricity in the next few years. Separately, the United States and Germany signed an agreement Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. “Time is literally running out,” Habeck said, calling climate change “the challenge of our political generation.”———Follow all AP stories on climate change issues at https://apnews.com/hub/climate

Source: ABC News May 27, 2022 22:32 UTC