G7 Apulia Leaders Communique, 14th June 2024

Preamble
We, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7),
gathered in Apulia to reaffirm our enduring
unity and determination to meet global
challenges at a crucial moment in history and
as the international community confronts
multiple interconnected crises.
We reiterate our shared belief in democratic
principles and free societies, universal human
rights, social progress, and respect for
multilateralism and the rule of law. We
commit to providing opportunities and
pursuing shared prosperity. We seek to
strengthen international rules and norms for
the benefit of all.
Our work is grounded in our commitment to
respect the UN Charter, safeguard
international peace and security, and uphold
the free and open rules-based international
order. We will support more effective,
inclusive and equitable global governance that
reflects our changing world. We reaffirm our
commitment to uphold human dignity and the
rule of law in all parts of the world.

We are working together and with others to
address the pressing challenges of our time.
We are:
● standing in solidarity to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom and its reconstruction for as
long as it takes. In the presence of President Zelenskyy, we decided to make available
approximately USD 50 billion leveraging the extraordinary revenues of the immobilized
Russian sovereign assets, sending an unmistakable signal to President Putin. We are
stepping up our collective efforts to disarm and defund Russia’s military industrial
complex.
● united in supporting the comprehensive deal that has been put forward that would lead to
an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, and a credible pathway
towards peace that leads to a two-State solution. We also call for a significant and
sustained increase in humanitarian assistance.
● engaging with African countries, in a spirit of equitable and strategic partnership. As they
work to deliver sustainable development and industrial growth for their people, we are
advancing our respective efforts to invest in sustainable infrastructure, including through
the PGII, and we launched the Energy for Growth in Africa initiative, together with
several African partners.
● acting to enable countries to invest in their future and achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), recognizing that reducing poverty and tackling global
challenges go hand in hand. We are doing our part to achieve better, bigger and more
effective Multilateral Development Banks, making it possible for the World Bank to
boost its lending by USD 70 billion over the next ten years. We are calling for action
from the international community to address debt burdens.
● reinforcing global food security and enhancing climate resilience, including by launching
the Apulia Food Systems Initiative.

● reaffirming our commitment to gender equality. Together with International Financial
Institutions, we will unlock at least USD 20 billion over three years in investments to
boost women’s empowerment.
● taking concrete steps to address the triple crisis of climate change, pollution, and
biodiversity loss, including by submitting ambitious 1.5°C aligned Nationally
Determined Contributions. We will spearhead global efforts to preserve forests and
oceans, and to end plastic pollution.
● affirming our collective commitment and enhanced cooperation to address migration,
tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities that it presents, in partnership with
countries of origin and transit. We will focus on the root causes of irregular migration,
efforts to enhance border management and curb transnational organized crime, and safe
and regular pathways for migration. We launched the G7 Coalition to prevent and counter
the smuggling of migrants.
● deepening our cooperation to harness the benefits and manage the risks of Artificial
Intelligence. We will launch an action plan on the use of AI in the world of work and
develop a brand to support the implementation of the International Code of Conduct for
Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems.
● fostering strong and inclusive global economic growth, maintaining financial stability
and investing in our economies to promote jobs and accelerate digital and clean energy
transitions. We also remain committed to strengthening the rules-based multilateral
trading system and to implementing a more stable and fairer international tax system fit
for the 21st century.
● acting together to promote economic resilience, confront non-market policies and
practices that undermine the level playing field and our economic security, and strengthen
our coordination to address global overcapacity challenges.

In taking forward all these priorities, our
partnership in the G7 will continue to be
guided by our joint commitment to cooperate
openly and transparently in a coordinated
manner.
We are grateful for the presence of His
Holiness Pope Francis and for his
contribution.
In a spirit of shared responsibility, we warmly
welcome the participation of the Leaders of
Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, India, Jordan,
Kenya, Mauritania, Tunisia, Türkiye, and the
United Arab Emirates.
Steadfast support to Ukraine
We reaffirm our unwavering support for
Ukraine for as long as it takes. Together with
international partners, we are determined to
continue to provide military, budget,
humanitarian, and reconstruction support to
Ukraine and its people. We remain strongly
committed to helping Ukraine meet its urgent
short-term financing needs, as well as
supporting its long-term recovery and

reconstruction priorities.
Russia must end its illegal war of aggression
and pay for the damage it has caused to
Ukraine. These damages now exceed USD
486 billion, according to the World Bank. It is
not right for Russia to decide if or when it will
pay for the damage it has caused in Ukraine.
Russia’s obligations under international law to
pay for the damage it is causing are clear, and
so we are continuing to consider all possible
lawful avenues by which Russia is made to
meet those obligations.
We remain determined to dispel any false
notion that time is on Russia’s side, that
destroying infrastructure and livelihoods has
no consequences for Russia, or that Russia
can prevail by causing Ukraine to fail
economically. With a view to supporting
Ukraine’s current and future needs in the face
of a prolonged defense against Russia, the G7
will launch “Extraordinary Revenue
Acceleration (ERA) Loans for Ukraine”, in
order to make available approximately USD
50 billion in additional funding to Ukraine by
the end of the year.

Therefore, without prejudice to possible other
contributions and standing together, the G7
intends to provide financing that will be
serviced and repaid by future flows of
extraordinary revenues stemming from the
immobilization of Russian Sovereign Assets
held in the European Union and other relevant
jurisdictions. To enable this, we will work to
obtain approval in these jurisdictions to use
future flows of these extraordinary revenues
to service and repay the loans. We confirm
that, consistent with all applicable laws and
our respective legal systems, Russia’s
sovereign assets in our jurisdictions will
remain immobilized until Russia ends its
aggression and pays for the damage it has
caused to Ukraine. We will maintain solidarity
in our commitment to providing this support
to Ukraine.
We intend to disburse this financing through
multiple channels that direct the funds to
Ukraine’s military, budget, and reconstruction
needs – within the constraints of our
respective legal systems and administrative
requirements. As it relates to reconstruction,

we will also strengthen the Ukraine
Multi-Donor Coordination Platform to help
coordinate the disbursal of funds and ensure
they align with Ukraine’s highest priority
needs at a pace it can effectively absorb. This
will play a key role in advancing Ukraine’s
reforms in line with its European path.
In light of the above, we task our relevant
Ministers and officials to operationalize these
commitments in time for ERA to begin
disbursing before year-end.
As we reiterated in our Statement on Ukraine
in February, Ukraine is defending its freedom,
sovereignty, independence, and territorial
integrity, against Russia’s brutal and
unjustifiable war of aggression. We continue
to condemn in the strongest possible terms
Russia’s blatant breach of international law,
including the UN Charter and of basic
principles that underpin the international
order. Any use of nuclear weapons by Russia
in the context of its war of aggression against
Ukraine would be inadmissible. We therefore
condemn in the strongest possible terms
Russia’s irresponsible and threatening nuclear

rhetoric as well as its posture of strategic
intimidation, including its announced
deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus.
We remain committed to holding those
responsible accountable for their atrocities
against the people of Ukraine, in line with
international law. We also condemn the
seizures of foreign companies and call on
Russia to reverse these measures and seek
acceptable solutions with the companies
targeted by them.
We support Ukraine’s right of self-defense
and reiterate our commitment to Ukraine’s
long-term security, including by
implementing bilateral security commitments
and arrangements based on the Joint
Declaration endorsed in Vilnius last July. We
are increasing our production and delivery
capabilities to assist its self-defense. We also
support efforts to assist Ukraine modernizing
its armed forces and strengthening its own
defense industry. We express our resolve to
bolster Ukraine’s air defense capabilities to
save lives and protect critical infrastructure.
We are committed to raising the costs of

Russia’s war by building on the
comprehensive package of sanctions and
economic measures already in place. Though
our measures have had a significant impact on
Russia’s ability to build its war machine and
to fund its invasion, its military is still posing
a threat not just to Ukraine but also to
international security.
We will continue taking measures against
actors in China and third countries that
materially support Russia’s war machine,
including financial institutions, consistent
with our legal systems, and other entities in
China that facilitate Russia’s acquisition of
items for its defense industrial base.
In this context, we reiterate that entities,
including financial institutions, that facilitate
Russia’s acquisition of items or equipment for
its defense industrial base are supporting
actions that undermine the territorial integrity,
sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine.
Accordingly, we will impose restrictive
measures consistent with our legal systems to
prevent abuse and restrict access to our
financial systems for targeted individuals and

entities in third countries, including Chinese
entities, that engage in this activity. We will
take robust action against actors who aid
Russia in circumventing our sanctions,
including by imposing severe costs on all
those who fail to immediately cease providing
material support to Russia’s aggression and by
strengthening domestic enforcement and
stepping up our business engagement to
promote corporate responsibility. We call on
financial institutions to refrain from
supporting and profiting from Russia’s war
machine. We will take further steps to deter
and disrupt this behaviour.
We will continue to apply significant pressure
on Russian revenues from energy and other
commodities. This will include improving the
efficacy of the oil price cap policy by taking
further steps to tighten compliance and
enforcement, while working to maintain
market stability. We will take steps, including
sanctions and innovative enforcement
activities leveraging respective geographies,
to combat Russia’s use of deceptive
alternative shipping practices to circumvent
our sanctions by way of its shadow fleet. We

call on industry actors facilitating this activity
to consider the financial liability and
environmental and reputational damage risks
associated with these practices. We will
impose additional sanctions measures on
those engaged in deceptive practices while
transporting Russian oil and against the
networks Russia has developed to extract
additional revenue from price cap violations
or from oil sales using alternative service
providers. We will continue taking further
steps to limit Russia’s future energy revenues
by impeding development of future energy
projects and disrupting access to the goods
and services on which those projects rely. We
will continue our efforts to reduce Russia’s
revenues from metals.
Ukraine’s reconstruction remains a key
priority, including early recovery measures
and addressing the current energy emergency
caused by Russia’s increased targeting of
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. We
re-emphasize our strong support for Ukraine’s
energy security, including by coordinating
international assistance through the G7+
Ukraine Energy Coordination Group. We will

continue to work with the Ukrainian
authorities and International Financial
Institutions through the Multi-agency Donor
Coordination Platform, and by mobilizing
private investments and fostering participation
of civil society.
We highlight the reality of 3.4 million
internally displaced Ukrainians and the
importance of inclusive recovery and the need
to address the needs of women, children and
persons with disabilities as well as other
population groups who have been
disproportionately affected by Russia’s war of
aggression. The reintegration of combatants
and civilians with disabilities in society
remains a priority. We call on Russia to
release all persons it has unlawfully detained
and to safely return all civilians it has illegally
transferred or deported, starting with children.
We reiterate our support for Ukraine’s
agriculture sector, which is critical for global
food supply, particularly for the most
vulnerable nations. We therefore call for
unimpeded deliveries of grain, foodstuffs,
fertilizers and inputs from Ukraine across the
Black Sea and recall the importance of the EU

Solidarity Lanes and President Zelenskyy’s
Grain from Ukraine initiative.
We are also working to involve our private
sectors in the sustainable economic recovery
of Ukraine. We welcome and underscore the
significance of Ukraine itself continuing to
implement domestic reform efforts, especially
in the fields of anti-corruption, justice system
reform, decentralization, and promotion of the
rule of law. We will continue to support
efforts of the Ukrainian government and
people in these endeavors. We will build on
the Japan-Ukraine Conference for Promotion
of Economic Growth and Reconstruction held
in Tokyo on 19 February and the Ukraine
Recovery Conference held on 11-12 June in
Berlin and we look forward to the next
Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome in
2025.
We welcome the Summit on Peace in Ukraine
planned in Switzerland on 15-16 June to build
a framework for peace based on international
law, the UN Charter and its principles, with
respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity. We will continue to work

to achieve the widest possible international
support for the key principles and objectives
of President Zelenskyy’s Peace Formula.
Our ultimate goal remains a just, lasting and
comprehensive peace in line with
international law and the UN Charter and its
principles and respect for Ukraine’s
sovereignty and territorial integrity. We will
continue to stand by Ukraine for as long as it
takes.
Conflict in Gaza
We reiterate our strongest condemnation of
the brutal terrorist attacks conducted by
Hamas and other terrorist groups against
Israel on 7 October 2023. We express our full
solidarity and support to Israel and its people
and reaffirm our unwavering commitment
towards its security. In exercising its right to
defend itself, Israel must fully comply with its
obligations under international law in all
circumstances, including international
humanitarian law. We condemn Hamas for its
continuing use of civilian infrastructure for its
military activities and failure to separate and

distinguish itself from civilians in Gaza. We
deplore all losses of civilian lives equally, and
note with great concern the unacceptable
number of civilian casualties especially
women and children. We call on all parties to
take every feasible step to protect civilian
lives.
We fully endorse and will stand behind the
comprehensive deal outlined by President
Biden that would lead to an immediate
ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, a
significant and sustained increase in the flow
of humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza,
and an enduring end to the crisis, with Israel’s
security interests and safety for Palestinian
civilians in Gaza assured. In this regard, we
welcome UNSC Resolution S/RES/2735
(2024). We reiterate our call on Hamas to
fully and unequivocally accept and implement
the cease fire proposal, as outlined in
Resolution 2735, and urge countries with
influence over Hamas to help ensure that it
does so. We welcome Israel’s acceptance of
the proposal and readiness to move forward
with it.

We urge all parties to facilitate rapid and
unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief for
civilians in need, in particular women and
children. Securing full, rapid, safe, and
unhindered humanitarian access in all its
forms, consistent with international
humanitarian law, and through all relevant
land crossing points, including the Rafah
crossing, through maritime delivery routes,
including through Ashdod Port, and
throughout all of Gaza remains an absolute
priority. We agree it is critical that UNRWA
and other UN organizations and agencies’
distribution networks be fully able to deliver
aid to those who need it most, fulfilling their
mandate effectively.
We are deeply concerned by the consequences
on the civilian population of the ongoing
ground operations in Rafah, and the
possibility of a full-scale military offensive
that would have further dire consequences for
civilians. We call on the Government of Israel
to refrain from such an offensive.
We welcome the appointment of the new
Palestinian Authority cabinet and remain

ready to support the Palestinian Authority as
it undertakes the reforms that are
indispensable to enable it to discharge its
responsibilities in the West Bank and, in the
aftermath of the conflict, in Gaza. Actions
that weaken the Palestinian Authority must
stop, including the withholding of clearance
revenues by the Israeli Government.
Maintaining economic stability in the West
Bank is critical for regional security. We call
on Israel to take the necessary measures to
ensure that correspondent banking services
between Israeli and Palestinian banks remain
in place, so that vital financial transactions
and critical trade in services continue; to
release withheld clearance revenues to the
Palestinian authority, in view of its urgent
fiscal needs; and to remove or relax other
measures to avoid further exacerbating the
economic situation in the West Bank.
We reiterate our unwavering commitment to
the vision of the two-state solution where two
democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live
side by side in peace within secure and
recognized borders, consistent with
international law and relevant UN resolutions,

and in this regard stress the importance of
unifying the Gaza strip with the West Bank
under the Palestinian Authority. We note that
mutual recognition, to include the recognition
of a Palestinian state, at the appropriate time,
would be a crucial component of that political
process.
We affirm our commitment to working
together – and with other international
partners – to closely coordinate and
institutionalize our support for civil society
peacebuilding efforts, ensuring that they are
part of a larger strategy to build the
foundation necessary for a negotiated and
lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.
All parties must refrain from any unilateral
actions that undermine the prospect of a
two-state solution, including Israeli expansion
of settlements and the “legalization” of
settlement outposts. We condemn the rise in
extremist settler violence committed against
Palestinians, which undermines security and
stability in the West Bank, and threatens
prospects for a lasting peace. We encourage
support for the Palestinian Authority Security

Services to make sure the West Bank remains
stable and conducive to the ultimate
establishment of a Palestinian state.
We are deeply engaged – along with partners
in the region – in preventing the conflict from
escalating further. We reiterate our firm
condemnation of Iran’s attack against Israel of
13-14 April, which marked an unacceptable
escalation, and we reaffirm our commitment
towards Israel security. We call on all parties
to lower tensions and contribute in a
constructive way to de-escalation.
We are particularly concerned by the situation
along the Blue Line. We recognize the
essential stabilizing role played by the
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the UN
Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in
mitigating that risk. We urge all involved
actors to exercise restraint to avoid further
escalation, consistent with UNSCR 1701.
Freedom of Navigation in the Red Sea
We condemn the ongoing attacks perpetrated
by the Houthis against international and

commercial vessels transiting through the Red
Sea and Gulf of Aden. These illegal attacks
must end. We call for the immediate release
by the Houthis of the Galaxy Leader and its
crew. We reiterate the right of countries to
defend their vessels, in line with UNSCR
2722 and in accordance with international
law.
The EU maritime operation “Aspides” and the
U.S.-led operation “Prosperity Guardian” play
an essential role to protect crucial shipping
lanes that are fundamental for global trade.
Maritime security and navigational rights and
freedoms are critical to ensuring free
movement of essential commodities to
destinations and populations all over the
world. This includes delivery of life-saving
humanitarian assistance to more than half the
population of Yemen.
The continuing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
risk destabilizing the region, stopping
freedom of navigation and trade flows and
endangering the UN-led roadmap towards
peace in Yemen. We call on the Houthis to
comply with their obligations under

international humanitarian law and cease their
attacks in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and
surrounding waters. We further call on
Yemeni parties to continue their positive
efforts in furtherance of the understanding
reached in December 2023, under UN
auspices, regarding the peace process.
Iran
Iran must cease its destabilizing actions.
We reiterate our determination that it must
never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon.
We urge Tehran to cease and reverse nuclear
escalations, and stop the continuing uranium
enrichment activities that have no credible
civilian justifications. Iran must engage in
serious dialogue and provide convincing
assurances that its nuclear program is
exclusively peaceful, in full cooperation and
compliance with the IAEA’s monitoring and
verification mechanism, including the Board
of Governors’ resolution of 5 June. We
support IAEA’s monitoring and verification
role regarding Iran’s nuclear-related
obligation and commitments and express

strong concern about Iran’s current lack of
cooperation with the Agency.
We call on Iran to stop assisting Russia’s war
in Ukraine and not to transfer ballistic
missiles and related technology, as this would
represent a substantive material escalation and
a direct threat to European security. We are
prepared to respond in a swift and coordinated
manner, including with new and significant
measures.
We demand that Iran cease its malicious
activities and destabilizing actions in the
Middle East and we stand ready to adopt
further sanctions or take other measures in
response to further destabilizing initiatives.
We continue to call for the immediate release
of the MSC Aries, its remaining crew and
cargo.
We reiterate our deep concern over Iran’s
human rights violations, especially against
women, girls and minority groups. We call on
Iran’s leadership to end all unjust and
arbitrary detentions, including of dual and
foreign citizens, and condemn the
unacceptable harassment of its citizens.

Fostering partnerships with African countries
We are committed to stepping up our support
to African countries in their efforts to achieve
sustainable development and local value
creation, strengthen democratic governance,
contribute to global stability and prosperity,
and protect the rule-based international order.
In doing so, we remain focused on equitable
partnerships rooted in shared principles,
democratic values, local ownership, and
concrete initiatives. We will align our efforts
with the African Union Agenda 2063 and
African countries’ needs and priorities,
including the integrated African continental
plans for improved local and regional food
security, infrastructure, trade and agricultural
productivity. We will also support the
operationalization of the African Continental
Free Trade Area (AfCTA) which will be an
essential parameter of African growth in the
coming decade.
We will reinforce mutually beneficial and
equitable cooperation with African countries
and regional organizations. While assuring

African countries our continued financial
support, we will enhance the coordination and
effectiveness of G7 cooperation resources;
support better mobilization and management
of local domestic resources; and promote
increased private investment. We endorse
African countries’ call for greater voice in
international bodies and welcome the AU’s
participation in the G20 as a permanent
member, and the creation of a third Chair for
sub-Saharan Africa at the IMF Executive
Board in November. We reiterate our support
for the G20 Compact with Africa, as a tool to
increase private sector investments, promote
structural reforms, and local entrepreneurship
support, and enhance cooperation, including
in the energy sector. The G7 Partnership for
Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII)
including initiatives such as the EU Global
Gateway offer a framework, we will use to
promote our vision of sustainable, resilient,
and economically viable infrastructure in
Africa, underpinned by transparent project
selection, procurement, and finance. In that
respect, we welcome the Mattei Plan for
Africa launched by Italy.

Acknowledging that sustainable development
and democracy are mutually reinforcing, we
reiterate our commitment to supporting
African governments in advancing democratic
governance and human rights, as we address
conditions conducive to terrorism, violent
extremism, and instability. In this respect, we
are concerned about the activities of the
Kremlin-backed Wagner Group’s and other
emerging Russia-backed forces, which are
having a destabilizing impact. We call for
accountability of all those responsible for
human rights violations and abuses.
Countries should not be forced to choose
between fighting against poverty and
protecting the planet or addressing global
challenges, nor between repaying creditors
and making further investments in
development. We are committed to evolve the
international financial architecture to make it
fit for the challenges of today’s world. We
support the ambition of partnerships such as
the G20 Compact with Africa and the Paris
Pact for People and Planet (4P), which work
to foster collaboration between key global
stakeholders to deliver additional financing

for development, climate, and nature and
fostering private sector investment. As
outlined in the Nairobi-Washington Vision,
we call on the international community to step
up sustainable and transparent financing for
developing countries willing to commit to
ambitious reforms and investment plans,
while emphasizing the importance of
domestic resource mobilization. This includes
working with other stakeholders to deliver
coordinated international financial institution
support packages, utilize tools to facilitate
private finance on better terms and unlock
private investments, and activate creditor
coordination and private sector participation
when needed so as to ensure multilateral
support is being used in the best interest of
developing countries. We will work with the
IMF, the World Bank, and other key parties to
bring this plan forward, with a view to realize
it for pilot countries by the end of 2024.
Sustainable Development, Food Security and
PGII
We reaffirm our steadfast commitment
towards the implementation of the 2030

Agenda for Sustainable Development and we
will redouble our efforts to accelerate
progress towards the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), restated at the
2023 SDG Summit, to ensure nobody is left
behind. With our partners, we will work on
concrete and ambitious actions to achieve
long-term sustainable development, strong,
environmental social and governance
standards, and shared prosperity worldwide.
Noting that we have already exceeded our
joint commitment of USD 14 billion to global
food security, announced in Elmau in 2022,
we remain steadfast in addressing the
escalating global food security and nutrition
crisis, aggravated by Russia’s war of
aggression against Ukraine.
We are launching the G7 Apulia Food
Systems Initiative (AFSI) to intensify our
efforts to overcome structural barriers to food
security and nutrition and to build resilient
sustainable and productive agriculture and
food systems, and to ensure that all people
can progressively realize the right to adequate
food. This includes enhancing sustainability

and productivity of local, regional, and global
supply chains and addressing discriminatory
rules and norms that affect gender equality.
This initiative will leverage multi-stakeholder
partnerships to advance ambitious programs
on the ground and harness the full potential of
food systems.
Noting global food supply disruptions due to
climate change and that the Paris Agreement
can only be reached by transforming food
systems, we will support synergetic and
coherent policies and investments to address
the climate-food systems nexus, particularly
in low-income countries. We will contribute
to these efforts globally, with a special
attention to implementing and aligning with
the African continental plans by supporting
the following multi-stakeholder programs
developed with the African Union and other
global partners: i) the Technical Cooperation
Collaborative to implement the “COP28 UAE
Declaration on sustainable agriculture,
resilient food systems, and climate action”
and enhance access to quality technical
cooperation for the integration of food
systems and climate plans in low-income and

climate vulnerable countries; ii) the Vision for
Adapted Crops and Soils for the restoration
and maintenance of healthy soils and the
further development and climate resilience of
traditional and indigenous crops in Africa,
recalling the importance of Africa Fertilizer
and Soil Health Summit 2024; iii) a G7
private-public initiative on coffee aimed to
further advance policy, sustained investments,
research and innovation, partnerships, blended
finance to boost the resilience, environmental
sustainability, value addition and circularity of
the coffee value chains worldwide and to
support smallholders and family farmers in
producing countries, including examining the
feasibility of the establishment of a global
private-public fund on coffee.
Given childhood stunting and wasting caused
by malnutrition can have lifelong physical,
psychological, and social effects that threaten
sustainable development, we commit to
support treatment and prevention to address
this challenge. We will foster
multi-stakeholder engagement and innovation,
including with multilaterals, the private sector
and philanthropies, and welcome in particular

the 2025 Paris Nutrition for Growth Summit.
We will also promote innovative solutions to
increase the quantity and quality of public and
private funding for food security and food
systems in low-income countries. We will: i)
work together to improve the fiscal space for
food security in line with continued efforts to
improve the international financial
architecture, including further analysis of the
potential of debt swaps, ii) building on
existing cooperation, initiate a collaborative
of G7 public development banks and DFIs to
enhance co-investment and risk-mitigation for
sustainable agriculture and food systems
transformation; iii) support the design and
development of a Financing for Shock-Driven
Food Crisis Facility to provide rapid-response
financing in anticipation of severe food crises,
also involving private capital from global
insurance markets.
Accordingly, we task our Development
Ministers to further articulate the AFSI
commitments and actions, ahead of their
Meeting in October, in synergy with Ministers
of Finance, Agriculture and Environment

noting in particular the Initiative on
Strengthening Seed Certification Capacity in
Africa and the Africampus program to bridge
educational gaps for African farmers and
entrepreneurs, under joint development by the
Ministers of Agriculture and international
partners.
We also highlight synergies between AFSI,
the Global Alliance for Food Security, and the
Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty
under development within the G20, which the
ambitions of we fully support.
We also continue to support coordinated
action with and among the UN Rome Based
Agencies and the wider UN system,
Multilateral Development Banks and other
relevant organizations, including the African
Union.
With a view to addressing global food
insecurity and malnutrition, we also
acknowledge the importance of supporting
fertilizer value chains including local fertilizer
production in line with WTO rules and
through supporting the use of local sources of

energy in consistency with a 1.5°C warming
limit and the goals of the Paris Agreement.
We reaffirm our commitment to mobilize up
to USD 600 billion through the PGII by 2027
towards sustainable, inclusive, resilient, and
quality infrastructure and investments with
partner countries, with a particular focus on
Africa and on the Indo-Pacific. We reaffirm
the Carbis Bay commitment for our DFIs and
multilateral partners to invest at least USD 80
billion into the private sector in Africa, and
we recognize the importance of directing
more investment to poorer and more fragile
countries across the continent.
We will enhance this Partnership by: i) raising
the profile of the PGII initiative throughout
the G7 platform with the strong coordination
and involvement of all its G7 tracks and
establishing a secretariat for effective
implementation and investment coordination
with partners; ii) supporting the launch of the
African Virtual Investment Platform, in
collaboration with the African Union and
OECD, to enhance information sharing,
transparency, and public policies on

investment in Africa; iii) working together
with our DFIs, MDBs, and private sector to
improve green investments in Africa as part
of our PGII commitment. In this respect, we
will progressively enhance country-based
investment coordination, including through
platforms such as the Alliance for Green
Infrastructure in Africa.
We commit to implement these key pillars, as
we are stepping up our efforts to attract
private investments at scale, improving the
enabling environments, maximizing the role
of MDBs and DFIs, enhancing co-financing,
advancing high standards for quality
infrastructure, including through certification
schemes such as the Blue Dot Network and
the FAST-INFRA Initiative and further
developing a pipeline of bankable projects.
We also call on all actors to adhere to
international rules, standards, and principles,
including the G20 Principles for Quality
Infrastructure Investments.
We will further promote concrete G7 PGII
initiatives, flagship projects, and
complementary initiatives to develop

transformative economic corridors for quality
infrastructure and investment, such as the
deepening of our coordination and financing
for the Lobito Corridor, the Luzon Corridor,
the Middle Corridor, and the India-Middle
East-Europe Economic Corridor, also building
on the EU Global Gateway, the Great Green
Wall Initiative, and the Mattei Plan for Africa
launched by Italy.
Indo-Pacific
We reiterate our commitment to a free and
open Indo-Pacific, based on the rule of law,
which is inclusive, prosperous, and secure,
grounded on sovereignty, territorial integrity,
peaceful resolution of disputes, fundamental
freedoms, and human rights. Peace and
stability in the region are key to promoting
global prosperity, and developments there can
directly affect global security. We reaffirm our
unwavering support for ASEAN centrality
and unity and our commitment to promoting
cooperation in line with the ASEAN Outlook
on the Indo-Pacific. We also affirm our
intention to work to support Pacific Island
Countries’ priorities as articulated through the

2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent.
We seek constructive and stable relations with
China and recognize the importance of direct
and candid engagement to express concerns
and manage differences. We act in our
national interest. Given China’s role in the
international community, cooperation is
necessary to address global challenges, and
we continue to engage in areas of common
interest. We call on China to step up efforts to
promote international peace and security, and
to work with us to tackle the climate,
biodiversity, and pollution crises, combat
illicit synthetic drug trafficking, ensure global
macroeconomic stability, support global
health security, and address vulnerable
countries’ debt sustainability and financing
needs.
We recognize the importance of China in
global trade. We are committed to advancing
free and fair trade, a level playing field, and
balanced economic relations, while updating
and strengthening the multilateral rule-based
trading system with the WTO at its core. We
are not trying to harm China or thwart its

economic development, indeed a growing
China that plays by international rules and
norms would be of global interest. However,
we express our concerns about China’s
persistent industrial targeting and
comprehensive non-market policies and
practices that are leading to global spillovers,
market distortions and harmful overcapacity
in a growing range of sectors, undermining
our workers, industries, and economic
resilience and security. We are not decoupling
or turning inwards. We are de-risking and
diversifying supply chains where necessary
and appropriate, and fostering resilience to
economic coercion. We further call on China
to refrain from adopting export control
measures, particularly on critical minerals,
that could lead to significant global supply
chain disruptions.
With these concerns in mind, together with
partners, we will invest in building our and
their respective industrial capacities, promote
diversified and resilient supply chains, and
reduce critical dependencies and
vulnerabilities. We will strengthen diplomatic
efforts and international cooperation,

including in the WTO, to encourage fair
practices and build resilience to economic
coercion. We will continue to take actions, as
necessary and appropriate, to protect our
workers and businesses from unfair practices,
to level the playing field and remedy ongoing
harm.
We call on China to uphold its commitment to
act responsibly in cyberspace. We will
continue our efforts to disrupt and deter
persistent, malicious cyber activity stemming
from China, which threatens our citizens’
safety and privacy, undermines innovation,
and puts our critical infrastructure at risk. We
recognize the necessity of protecting certain
advanced technologies that can be used to
threaten our national security, without unduly
limiting trade and investment.
We reaffirm that maintaining peace and
stability across the Taiwan Strait is
indispensable to international security and
prosperity. We support Taiwan’s meaningful
participation in international organizations,
including in the World Health Assembly and
WHO technical meetings, as a member where

statehood is not a prerequisite and as an
observer or guest where it is. There is no
change in the basic positions of the G7
members on Taiwan, including stated one
China policies. We call for a peaceful
resolution of cross-Strait issues.
We remain seriously concerned about the
situation in the East and South China Seas and
reiterate our strong opposition to any
unilateral attempt to change the status quo by
force or coercion. We continue opposing
China’s dangerous use of coast guard and
maritime militia in the South China Sea and
its repeated obstruction of countries’ high seas
freedom of navigation. We express serious
concern about the increasing use of dangerous
maneuvers and water cannons against
Philippine vessels. In this regard, we reaffirm
that there is no legal basis for China’s
expansive maritime claims in the South China
Sea, and we oppose China’s militarization,
and coercive and intimidation activities in the
South China Sea. We re-emphasize the
universal and unified character of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(UNCLOS) and reaffirm UNCLOS’s

important role in setting out the legal
framework that governs all activities in the
oceans and the seas. We reiterate that the
award rendered by the Arbitral Tribunal on 12
July 2016 is a significant milestone, which is
legally binding upon the parties to those
proceedings, and a useful basis for peacefully
resolving disputes between the parties.
We express our deep concern at the People’s
Republic of China’s support to Russia. We
call on China to press Russia to stop its
military aggression and immediately,
completely and unconditionally withdraw its
troops from Ukraine. We encourage China to
support a comprehensive, just and lasting
peace based on territorial integrity and the
principles and purposes of the UN Charter,
including through its direct dialogue with
Ukraine. China’s ongoing support for Russia’s
defense industrial base is enabling Russia to
maintain its illegal war in Ukraine and has
significant and broad-based security
implications. We call on China to cease the
transfer of dual-use materials, including
weapons components and equipment, that are
inputs for Russia’s defense sector.

We remain concerned by the human rights
situation in China, including in Tibet and in
Xinjiang where forced labor is a major
concern to us. We are also worried by China’s
crackdown on Hong Kong’s autonomy,
independent institutions, and civil society and
continued erosion of rights and freedom,
including through the recent enactment of
legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law
that has broad and vaguely defined provisions
regarding “sedition”, “state secrets,” and
interactions with foreign entities. We express
concerns about the use of such laws to silence
dissent in Hong Kong and overseas, including
politically motivated prosecutions. These
developments will make it harder to live,
work and do business in Hong Kong.
We call on China not to conduct or condone
activities aimed at undermining the security
and safety of our communities and the
integrity of our democratic institutions, and to
act in strict accordance with its obligations
under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic
Relations and the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations.

We reiterate our call for the complete,
verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of
all North Korea’s weapons of mass
destruction and ballistic missiles. We urge all
UN Member States to fully implement all
relevant UN Security Council resolutions
(UNSCRs) and reiterate our deep
disappointment with Russia’s veto in March
on the UNSCR 1718 Committee Panel of
Experts mandate renewal. We strongly
condemn North Korea’s continued
development of its ballistic missile program in
defiance of multiple UNSCRs, including
through launches of intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBM) and space launch vehicles
using ballistic missile technologies. We
condemn in the strongest possible terms the
increasing military cooperation between
North Korea and Russia, including North
Korea’s export and Russia’s procurement of
North Korean ballistic missiles in direct
violation of relevant UNSCRs, as well as
Russia’s use of these missiles against Ukraine.
We are also deeply concerned about the
potential for any transfer of nuclear or
ballistic missiles-related technology to North

Korea, in violation of the relevant UNSCRs.
We urge Russia and North Korea to
immediately cease all such activities and
abide by relevant UNSCRs. We reiterate our
commitment to counter sanctions evasion and
strengthen enforcement of all North Korea
related UNSCRs. We call on North Korea to
accept repeated offers of dialogue, to enhance
regional peace and security. We strongly
condemn North Korea’s choice to prioritize its
unlawful WMD and ballistic missile programs
over the welfare of the people in North Korea
and we demand that it abandons these
programs. We urge North Korea to respect
human rights, facilitate access for
international humanitarian organizations, and
resolve the abductions issue immediately.
We reiterate our firm condemnation of the
brutal repression of the people of Myanmar
by the Myanmar military regime, and express
our concern with the expanding humanitarian
crisis across the country.
We deplore the implementation of the 2010
People’s Military Service Law. This is
causing further internal and regional

displacement, risks exacerbating divides and
hampering reconciliation. Accountability for
serious crimes committed in the whole
country remains essential. We are particularly
concerned that sectarian tensions could
inflame Rakhine again, hindering the creation
of conditions for voluntary, safe, dignified and
sustainable return of Rohingya refugees and
all displaced persons, while propelling
regional instability.
We reiterate our demands for unimpeded
humanitarian access to those in need, that all
parties respect human rights and international
humanitarian law, and for the release of those
arbitrarily detained. We reaffirm that an
inclusive dialogue with all stakeholders is
essential to restore foundations for a durable
democratic process.
We also reiterate the importance of UNSCR
2669 and continue to support the UN’s further
engagement in the crisis and ASEAN’s efforts
to achieve the implementation of the
Five-Point Consensus.
We restate our appeal on all States to prevent
or to halt the flow of arms and dual-use

material, including jet fuel, to the Myanmar
military, and to contribute to the search for a
viable political solution which respects the
democratic aspirations of Myanmar’s people.
Regional issues
HAITI
We commit to work together with other
members of the international community for
the stabilization of Haiti and to ensure robust
and timely funding and other support for the
Kenya-led Multinational Security Support
(MSS) mission, which needs to be deployed
as soon as possible, and to support the Haitian
National Police (HNP). We welcome Kenya’s
leadership of the MSS mission. It is
imperative that violence by criminal gangs is
stopped. We welcome the establishment of the
Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) as
well as the appointment of interim Prime
Minister Garry Conille and look forward to
the rapid establishment of a transitional
Government as the outcome of a transparent
and inclusive national process. It is necessary
to address urgently the most immediate needs

of the population, protect women and
children, restore security and the rule of law
and start shaping the institutional framework
required to lead Haiti to free and democratic
elections by February 2026. We will continue
to follow closely developments in Haiti. To
that end, we welcome the efforts of the newly
established G7 Working Group on Haiti to
advance the MSS mission, the country’s
stabilization, including through humanitarian
assistance and long-term development,
accountability mechanisms, and democratic
governance in Haiti.
LIBYA
We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to
Libya’s stability, independence, territorial
integrity and national unity, including in the
face of external interference. We call on all
Libyan institutional stakeholders to overcome
the current political stalemate by engaging in
meaningful dialogue in good faith and without
preconditions. An inclusive, Libyan-led,
Libyan-owned political process facilitated by
the United Nations remains the only viable
pathway towards free and fair national

presidential and parliamentary elections. In
this context, we call on the Secretary General
of the United Nations to appoint a new
Special Representative without delay, and
affirm our full support to the United Nations
Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)’s
interim leadership.
SAHEL
We remain concerned for the deterioration of
the security situation in the Sahel, including
the spread of terrorism and violent conflict
causing widespread misery and displacement
of the civilian population. This is
compounded by the backsliding of the
principles of constitutional rule of law,
democracy and good governance and
regression in the regional cooperation
frameworks.
The grave human rights violations committed
by multiple parties, including Russian proxies
and local security forces in the region are
unacceptable.
The challenge of growing political tension,

confrontation, and instability in the Sahel
requires renewed efforts by all relevant actors
and stakeholders in reconfiguring
international and regional responses.
A continued support to the civilian
populations in the Sahel is essential to
alleviate their suffering.
We call upon the States of the Sahel to
accelerate the pace of the transition for return
to constitutional order, and stand ready to
assist them. We look forward to enhancing
cooperation with the African Union and its
current Mauritanian Presidency as well as
regional organizations and the UN in fostering
stability, security, good governance and
development in the Sahel, preventing the
“spill-over” of insecurity towards the Gulf of
Guinea and North Africa, as well as irregular
migratory flows.
SUDAN
We strongly condemn the ongoing fighting in
Sudan, including human rights violations and
abuses as well as international humanitarian

law violations since April 2023. The situation
is constantly deteriorating with increased
civilian casualties. We express particular
concern for the risks posed to women and
children by both parties to the conflict and the
increase in ethnic-based violence which must
cease immediately. This is further
undermining the fragile humanitarian
situation and creating further displacement
risks.
All parties must allow and facilitate rapid and
unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief. We
reiterate our call on all parties to immediately
cease hostilities throughout the country, to
enter into serious, direct negotiations, to agree
and implement an immediate and lasting
ceasefire without pre-conditions. We are
deeply concerned by the current escalation in
El-Fasher in North Darfur.
We urge external actors to refrain from
fueling the conflict, and we encourage all
Sudanese actors to engage in a national
dialogue inclusive of the composite Sudanese
civil society and aimed at re-establishing
civilian and representative institutions to meet

the democratic aspirations of the Sudanese
people.
An active African and regional role, as well as
the intensified and coordinated efforts of the
international community, remain essential to
ending violence and restoring democracy.
We welcome the outcomes of the Paris
Conference for Sudan and the neighboring
countries, where over EUR 2 billion have
been pledged to support the civilian
population in Sudan, and those who sought
refuge in neighboring countries.
VENEZUELA
We are deeply concerned by the ongoing
political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in
Venezuela and by the lack of progress on the
implementation of the Barbados Agreement
of October 2023, with regard to the rights of
the opposition within the electoral process and
the decision to withdraw the invitation for an
EU election observation mission. We call on
Venezuela to fully implement the Barbados
Agreement and to ensure competitive and
inclusive elections on 28 July, that encompass

full and credible international electoral
observation missions. We further demand an
end to the harassment of opposition members,
and for the release of all political prisoners
immediately.
We are following closely developments
between Venezuela and Guyana over the
Essequibo region and welcome regional
efforts to maintain dialogues between the
parties. We demand that Venezuela refrain
from further destabilizing initiatives. The
matter must be resolved peacefully, in line
with international law.
BELARUS
We reiterate our condemnation of the
Belarusian regime’s complicity in Russia’s
war against Ukraine. We express our
continued concern over the regime’s
continuing repression of independent media,
civil society, opposition, and citizens that
peacefully express their views. We also
condemn the ill treatment of political
prisoners and ask for their immediate and
unconditional release.

Sustainable Urban Development
We emphasize the transformative power of
cities worldwide as drivers for sustainable
development. We will continue our
cooperation on sustainable urban development
and task our relevant Ministers to discuss
concrete actions to reduce spatial inequalities,
protect the environment and climate, and
promote smart and innovative economies in
urban areas.
Energy, Climate and Environment
We reiterate our determination to address the
triple global crisis of climate change,
pollution, and biodiversity loss. We remain
steadfast in our commitment to the Paris
Agreement and keeping a limit of 1.5°C
global temperature rise within reach and note
with deep concern the findings of the first
Global Stocktake at the UN Climate Change
Conference (COP28) that there is a significant
gap between global current emissions
trajectories and this commitment. Our goal
remains unchanged, to provide a substantial

contribution to efforts to reduce global GHG
emissions by around 43 per cent in this
critical decade and by 60 per cent by 2035,
relative to the 2019 level. We underline that
this is a collective effort and further actions
from all countries, especially major
economies, are required in order to peak
global GHG by 2025 at the latest and achieve
net-zero by 2050.
We commit to submitting ambitious 1.5°C
aligned NDCs, which will be catalysts for
investments, with economy-wide, absolute
reduction targets, covering all GHGs, sectors
and categories. Underlining that this is a
collective effort, we call on all countries,
especially G20 and other major economies, to
do the same. We will advance global and
regional efforts to secure affordable clean
energy for all, recognizing different national
pathways.
We welcome the commitments, as set forth in
COP28, to triple global renewable capacity
and double the global average annual rate of
energy efficiency improvements by 2030.
Energy efficiency is the first fuel and an

essential element of clean energy transition.
We also commit to meet the global goal of
deploying 1500 GW of energy storage in the
power sector by 2030, including through
existing targets and policies. We will
transition away from fossil fuels in energy
systems in a just, orderly, and equitable
manner, accelerating actions in this critical
decade, to achieve net-zero by 2050 in
keeping with the best available science. We
will operationalize these commitments
through the development and implementation
of domestic plans, policies and actions,
including to inform and be reflected in our
NDCs and LTSs, and through intensive efforts
to reduce demand for and use of fossil fuels.
We reaffirm our commitment to eliminate
inefficient fossil fuel subsidies by 2025 or
sooner and will report in 2025 on progress
made. We call on others to do the same.
We reaffirm the important role of high
integrity carbon markets and carbon pricing,
to foster cost-efficient reductions in emission
levels, drive innovation and enable a
transformation to net-zero and will work
together and with others to accelerate their
ambitious use.

To achieve our climate goals and help all
countries reap the benefits of the clean energy
transition, we will work with partners to end
support for new unabated coal power,
accelerate investments in renewable and clean
energy sources, and establish secure, diverse,
responsible clean energy supply chains. We
reaffirm our commitment to achieve a fully or
predominantly decarbonized power sector by
2035 and to phase out existing unabated coal
power generation in our energy systems
during the first half of 2030s, or in a timeline
consistent with keeping a limit of 1.5°C
temperature rise within reach, in line with
countries’ net-zero pathways. We reiterate our
call for other countries and partners to join us
in ending permitting and construction of new
unabated coal-fired powerplants as soon as
possible, and will promote cooperation with
countries, international partners, and relevant
organizations, including the financial sector,
to this end, noting the work of those joining
the Powering Past Coal Alliance and the Coal
Transition Accelerator, to facilitate these
goals.
We commit to accelerating the transition
toward decarbonization in the industrial

sectors and particularly in the hard-to-abate
sectors. We will promote and facilitate the
scale-up of investments in the industrial sector
for innovative technologies, smart clean
electrification, improved energy efficiency,
direct use of renewable heat, sustainable bio
energies, sustainable production of energy
from waste, sustainable biogases and biofuels,
renewable, clean/zero-emission and
low-carbon hydrogen and its derivatives such
as ammonia and direct use of renewable
energy close to demand centers, the use of
carbon management technologies. We also
commit to accelerate the reduction of
emissions from transport. We will continue
working on this, including through the G7
Industrial Decarbonization Agenda as well as
the Climate Club and its ambitious work
program.
We reaffirm that the transition to a net-zero
economy by 2050 at the latest should be
inclusive and leave no one behind, and should
be an opportunity for enhancing social
development and economic growth,
maximizing positive benefits for local
economies while addressing negative social or

economic impacts that may arise from climate
action. Recognizing that cutting methane
emissions from fossil fuel operations by
means of already existing technologies is
largely feasible and cost-effective for oil and
gas operations, we will intensify efforts to
tackle methane emissions in line with the
global reduction level of at least 35 percent in
methane emissions by 2035. We commit to
pursue a collective effort towards a 75 per
cent reduction in global methane emissions
from fossil fuels, including by reducing the
methane emissions intensity of oil and gas
operations by 2030, through developing a
robust methodology and use of measure data,
and work with non-G7 oil and gas producing
countries particularly in Africa, to deliver
deep cuts to methane emissions.
Reaffirming our commitments in the 2023
Hiroshima Leaders’ Statement, we note that
G7 countries have made significant progress
in reducing dependency on Russian fossil
fuels, including through energy savings and
gas demand reduction in a manner consistent
with our Paris Commitments and address the
global impact of Russia’s war on energy

supplies, gas prices and inflation, and people’s
lives, recognizing the primary need to
accelerate the clean energy transition. We
recognize that restricting Russian energy
revenues is an essential part of our support to
Ukraine and are pursuing to end significant
dependency on, and to work on transitioning
away from imports of Russian gas as soon as
possible. In this context, we stress the
important role that increased deliveries of
LNG can play and acknowledge that
investment in the sector can be appropriate in
response to the current crisis and to address
potential gas market shortfalls provoked by
the crisis. In the exceptional circumstance of
accelerating the phase-out of our dependency
on Russian energy, publicly supported
investments in the gas sector can be
appropriate as a temporary response, subject
to clearly defined national circumstances, if
implemented in a manner consistent with our
climate objectives without creating lock-in
effects, for example by ensuring that projects
are integrated into national strategies for the
development of low-carbon and renewable
hydrogen.

Those G7 countries that opt to use nuclear
energy or support its use recognize its
potential as a clean/zero-emissions energy
source and reiterate its potential in
accelerating the transition to net-zero and
improving global energy security. They will
continue supporting cooperative efforts to
responsibly strengthen nuclear supply chains’
safety, reliability and resilience while also
promoting responsible waste management.
We support Japan’s safe, transparent, and
science-based process to responsibly manage
the discharge of Advanced Liquid Processing
System treated water and in proactively
coordinating with scientists and partners as
well as the IAEA. They will also promote
research and development in innovative
technologies for advanced and small modular
reactors, including microreactors, work
collectively to enable greater access to project
financing tools, and support sectorial
collaboration. They note the global
Declaration to Triple Global Nuclear Energy
Capacity by 2050, launched during COP28.
We will further reduce reliance on civil
nuclear and related goods from Russia,
including working to assist countries seeking

to diversify their supplies. We underline that
the highest standards of nuclear safety and
security are important to all countries and
their respective publics.
Fusion energy technology has the potential to
provide a lasting solution to the global
challenges of climate change and energy
security. We will promote international
collaborations to accelerate the development
and demonstration of fusion plants to foster
private investments and public engagement.
With this aim, we commit to establishing a G7
Working Group on Fusion Energy. We will
also work towards consistent approaches to
fusion regulations. To enhance cooperation in
this field, we welcome Italy and the
International Atomic Energy Agency’s
decision to host in Rome the inaugural
ministerial meeting of the World Fusion
Energy Group.
We recall our commitment to holistically
addressing energy security, climate crisis and
geopolitical risk. In this context, we strongly
encourage international partnerships to make
critical minerals and critical raw materials

supply chains more diversified, transparent,
resilient, responsible, circular, resource
efficient, and sustainable. We will support
local value creation in critical minerals supply
chains in line with WTO rules. We are
working to advance strong international
environmental, social, and governance
standards for critical minerals extraction,
processing, and recycling while leveraging
their economic and development
opportunities, particularly in low-income
countries, including through implementation
of the Five-Point Plan for Critical Mineral
Security, as well as driving work through the
International Energy Agency, the Mineral
Security Partnership, and the RISE
Partnership and the Sustainable Critical
Mineral Alliance.
We will work to accelerate investment in
clean energy and build out the secure,
responsible, and diverse supply chains
necessary to achieve these goals, together
with partners around the world.
We are determined to ensure affordable,
reliable, sustainable, clean, and modern

energy in developing countries, particularly in
Africa, recognizing the opportunity that the
clean energy transition presents to spur a new
era of productivity, industrial growth, and
economic development, and to advance the
priority of clean cooking in the continent. We
stand ready to play a pivotal role in
supporting Africa’s ambitions and efforts to
develop adequate clean energy infrastructure
and supply chains. For this reason, we are
launching the Energy for Growth in Africa
initiative, alongside Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of
Congo, and South Africa, and we look
forward to others joining. This initiative will
drive clean energy investments across the
continent with strong African countries’
ownership, contributing to addressing
persistent barriers and gaps, and advancing
sustainable, resilient and inclusive growth and
industrial development. Our efforts will be
geared towards ensuring Africa can fulfil its
potential to become a global sustainable
energy hub using relevant platforms, such as
the UNDP Center for Climate, Energy and
Environment established by the Italian
Presidency.

Furthermore, we strongly support the creation
of new sustainable energy generation capacity
in Africa and the Mediterranean to contribute
to global decarbonization goals, in our
common fight against climate change, as well
as the development of greater
interconnectivity to help reduce the cost of the
energy transition. We encourage and actively
support the acceleration of private investment,
including through public-private partnerships,
increasing Africa’s integration with the global
energy market, in particular through the
Mediterranean region.
We continue exploring innovative financing
sources for climate and biodiversity action
and clean energy, innovative schemes such as
payment for ecosystem services, green bonds
and high-integrity biodiversity credits with
environmental and social safeguards. In
particular, we support the issuance of green
bonds in low- and middle-income countries,
particularly on the African continent, to
encourage private financial flows for
sustainable investments and the growth of
capital markets, in line with existing
initiatives such as the Global Green Bonds

Initiative.
We acknowledge the importance of fiscal
space and mobilizing resources from all
sources for increased climate and
development action particularly for
low-income and vulnerable countries, and that
the fights against climate change and poverty
go hand in hand. We will implement effective
policy frameworks to drive the necessary
public and private investments. In this
context, we welcome the Menu of Policy
Options for a Just Transition towards Net
Zero and the High-Level Framework for
Public-Private Insurance Programs against
Natural Hazards as a viable measure.
We will work with the MDBs, IFIs and other
climate finance providers to take a
coordinated approach to financing climate
action, nature-based solutions, and sustainable
energy projects in developing countries,
including by supporting private finance and
domestic resource mobilization. We will
effectively prioritize our international support
in the energy sector towards accelerating the
clean energy transition. We call on other

major economies and all the relevant entities
to do the same.
We look forward to setting a new collective
quantified goal on climate finance at COP29,
and recognize that a new goal is a unique
opportunity to strengthen the international
climate finance landscape in this critical
decade to keep 1.5°C within reach. We
emphasize that G7 countries intend to be
leading contributors to a fit-for-purpose goal,
underlining the importance of including those
countries that are capable of contributing to
any international public finance mobilization.
As assessed by the OECD, developed
countries exceeded the annual goal of
providing and mobilizing USD 100 billion in
climate finance for developing countries in
2022, an achievement that we warmly
welcome.
We note that, despite progress, there is a need
to continue to scale up action and support,
including finance for climate adaptation as
called for in the Glasgow Climate Pact. We
will continue supporting the most vulnerable
developing countries in translating national

adaptation plans and other national adaptation
instruments into investment plans aligned
with their needs and priorities, including
through the G7 Adaption Accelerator Hub.
We emphasize the importance of
whole-of-society approaches, with the
meaningful participation of the people and
communities on the frontlines of the triple
crisis, including women, youth, and
Indigenous Peoples. We recognize that they
are disproportionately affected by the impacts
of climate change and recognize their critical
role as leaders and agents of change.
Recognizing the role of younger generations
to promote climate action and drive a more
sustainable future, we need to empower their
voices and their participation. Building on
successful initiatives, such as the
Youth4Climate program, we commit to
amplifying youth-led initiatives, enhancing
educational opportunities, and bolstering
advocacy efforts.
We are committed to halting and reversing
biodiversity loss by 2030 and to the swift and
full implementation of the Kunming-Montreal
Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)

and achieving each of its goals and targets,
including the 30 by 30 targets. For those G7
members that are parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD), we will revise
and submit updated National Biodiversity
Strategies and Action Plans in alignment with
the KMGBF or communicate national targets
reflecting the KMGBF ahead of the 16th UN
Biodiversity Conference. We recall our
previous commitment to increase our national
and international funding for nature by 2025,
and to substantially and progressively
increase the level of financial resources from
all sources including by providing support to
the Global Environment Facility. We commit
to align all relevant financial and fiscal flows
with the KMGBF. We note that Target 19
aims at mobilizing at least USD 200 billion
per year by 2030 for biodiversity from all
sources, including USD 20 billion per year by
2025 and USD 30 billion per year by 2030,
through international financial resources. We
are all still concerned about incentives,
including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity,
and call upon all relevant organizations to
continue collaborating with us, including by
assisting in identifying such incentives, and

we are all working to fulfil our respective
applicable commitments, including, inter alia,
to identify these incentives by 2025, and
redirect or eliminate them, while scaling-up
positive incentives for the conservation and
sustainable use of biodiversity by 2030 at the
latest, taking initial steps without delay.
In this context we are committed to halt and
reverse deforestation and forest and land
degradation by 2030 globally. We are
committed to promoting sustainable forest
management and sustainable use of woods
and advancing sustainable supply chains that
decouple agricultural production from
deforestation and forest and land degradation,
recognizing the importance of demand and
supply-side measures. We are committed to
developing innovative financial solutions for
conserving, protecting, and restoring forests,
and in that context welcome the launch of
country packages for forests, nature, and
climate at COP28. We will also take steps to
prevent, manage, and address the negative
impacts of extreme wildfires.
We reiterate our deep concern about the health

of the ocean and seas, and we are united in the
call for transformative action on ocean
governance to tackle the triple planetary crisis
of climate change, biodiversity loss, and
pollution. We will work towards a successful
UNOC3 in 2025 in this regard. We commit to
pursue the swift ratification, approval,
acceptance, and accession of the agreement
on the conservation and sustainable use of
marine biological diversity of areas beyond
national jurisdiction and to contribute to a
rapid entry into force and implementation.
We will accelerate efforts to decouple
economic growth from negative
environmental impacts and primary resource
use by expanding the transformation of our
economies to be net-zero, circular,
climate-resilient, pollution-free and
nature-positive. We are committed to end
plastic pollution with the ambition to reduce
additional plastic pollution to zero by 2040
and, as appropriate, reduce the global
production and consumption of primary
plastic polymers in the context of our actions
throughout the full life cycle of plastic. We
support efforts to develop an international

legally binding instrument on plastic pollution
of the highest ambition possible by the end of
2024, based on a comprehensive approach
that addresses the full life cycle of plastic. We
also continue our work to reduce air pollution.
We call on the global community to do the
same. We will step up our efforts to increase
resource efficiency and circular economy.
They can reduce pressure on primary
resources and play a key role in mitigating the
adverse impacts of resource extraction and
processing, while, at the same time,
increasing the resilience of our economies to
potential future shocks and fostering
innovation and sustainability.
Safe water and healthy soils and ecosystems,
including marine and coastal ecosystems, are
vital for preserving life and livelihoods, and
mitigating climate change and environmental
degradation’s impact, including
climate-induced displacement, particularly in
Africa. We express concern about Russia’s
environmentally unsustainable and unfair
trading practices regarding fish and seafood
products. We look forward to successful
outcomes at the upcoming Conference of the

Parties to the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD COP16) in Colombia and the
UN Conference to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD COP16) in Saudi Arabia. With this
aim, the Italian G7 Presidency is setting up a
Hub on Sustainable Use of Land, dedicated to
promoting a collaborative and common
approach to sustainable land use initiatives in
Africa and the Mediterranean Basin.
Recognizing the importance of water and
sanitation for sustainable development,
prosperity and peace, we endorse the
establishment of a G7 Water Coalition to
coordinate our action and strengthen our
cooperation on water-related issues, and we
welcome the organization of the One Water
Summit in Riyadh at the margins of UNCCD
COP16.
We reaffirm the critical role our DFIs can play
in contributing to the mobilization of finance
from all sources for advancing G7 energy,
climate and environment commitments.
Artificial Intelligence, Science, Technology,
and Innovation
Artificial Intelligence can play a crucial role

in promoting progress and development in our
societies. We will promote safe, secure, and
trustworthy AI. We will pursue an inclusive,
human-centered, digital transformation that
underpins economic growth and sustainable
development, maximizes benefits, and
manages risks, in line with our shared
democratic values and respect for human
rights.
In this regard, we recognize the need for
approaches to AI governance that foster
inclusion, to help us harness the potential of
AI in a way that reflects these values and
promotes its development while mitigating
risks, including with respect to human rights
and avoiding governance fragmentation. We
will work toward these objectives by actively
cooperating with other stakeholders,
organizations and initiatives as relevant, such
as the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and
the OECD. We will build on the outcomes of
the AI Seoul Summit and upcoming
milestones, including this year’s UN Summit
of the Future and the AI Action Summit in
2025.

Recognizing the importance of advancing the
Hiroshima AI Process outcomes, we welcome
support from the countries and organizations
beyond the G7, as demonstrated by its Friends
Group.
We will step up our efforts to enhance
interoperability amongst our AI governance
approaches to promote greater certainty,
transparency and accountability while
recognizing that approaches and policy
instruments may vary across G7 members. We
will take a risk-based approach in these efforts
as we seek to foster innovation and strong,
inclusive, and sustainable growth. To achieve
this goal, we will step up our coordination
around the evolution of our governance and
regulatory frameworks, including by sharing
best practices. We will enhance our regular
consultations. We are also committed to
deepening coordination between our
respective institutes and offices focused on
AI, to work towards shared understanding of
risk management and advance international
standards for AI development and
deployment. We welcome our Industry, Tech,
and Digital Ministers’ efforts to advance the

Hiroshima AI Process’ outcomes released last
year, including the development of a reporting
framework for monitoring the International
Code of Conduct for Organizations
Developing Advanced AI Systems. We look
forward to the pilot of the reporting
framework, developed in cooperation with the
OECD, in view of the Industry, Tech, and
Digital Ministers’ Meeting in October. We
will work towards developing a brand that can
be used to identify organizations that are
voluntarily participating in and implementing
the Code’s forthcoming reporting framework.
We welcome the G7 Toolkit for Artificial
Intelligence in the Public Sector, that can help
governments to deliver better services to our
economies and societies, while protecting
human rights and fundamental freedoms.
We will work to ensure that AI enables
increased productivity, quality jobs, and
decent work; empowers workers; fosters
inclusiveness and equal opportunities in the
world of work; and enhances active labor
market policies, including by fostering
dialogue and transparency with workers

organizations. To achieve these goals, we will
launch an action plan on the use of AI in the
world of work. We ask our Labor Ministers to
develop the action plan, envisaging concrete
actions to fully leverage the potential of AI to
enable decent work and workers’ rights and
full access to adequate reskilling and
upskilling, while addressing potential
challenges and risks to our labor markets. We
emphasize the need to anticipate future skills
needs, provide higher education opportunities
and equip workers and employers with the
skills and competencies needed to design,
adopt, and work with a human-centric, safe,
secure and trustworthy AI. Against this
background, we also emphasize the
importance of innovative education,
international talent mobility, digital
competencies, and personalized lifelong
learning to meet the demand for a qualified
workforce. We recognize and encourage the
work of the private sector to address skills
gaps, including through the Global
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence’s
Working Group on the Future of Work.
Acknowledging the key role that emerging
technologies can play in economic growth, we

commit to enhancing cooperation to bolster
the adoption and development of new
technologies, including AI, among micro,
small, and medium enterprises, thereby
fostering inclusive economic growth.
As we look to the future of emerging
technologies, we encourage transparency and
adherence to international workers’ rights and
labor standards at each stage of the AI supply
chain. We also encourage our competition
authorities to monitor the development of the
AI industry, with a view to addressing
potential competition issues, and prevent
adverse effects at an early stage.
We will also work, including with developing
countries and emerging economies, towards
closing digital divides, including the gender
digital divide, and achieving digital inclusion.
We welcome the UN General Assembly
Resolution on Seizing the Opportunities of
Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI Systems for
Sustainable Development, which advances
international conversations on AI, including
to promote equitable access to the benefits of
AI for all. We will leverage the benefits of AI

for SDGs by closing gaps in technologies for
development, and by strengthening research
and development ecosystems. To this end, G7
countries seek to promote safe, secure and
inclusive practices, tools and solutions to
make the benefits of AI and advanced
computing available to partners to advance
their development. In this regard, we welcome
the Italian Presidency’s decision to establish
the AI Hub for Sustainable Development, in
collaboration with UNDP. The Hub aims to
enable multistakeholder partnerships to
support local AI digital ecosystems,
strengthen capacities to advance AI for
sustainable development, and complement
existing initiatives including the AI for
Development Donors Partnership.
We reiterate the importance of
operationalizing Data Free Flow with Trust
(DFFT) to enable trustworthy cross-border
data flows, and invigorate the digital economy
as a whole, while preserving governments’
ability to address legitimate public interest.
We value OECD’s leading role in advancing
DFFT and we welcome its expert community.

Acknowledging the crucial role of resilient
and reliable global semiconductor supply
chains, we welcome the establishment of a
Semiconductors G7 Point of Contact Group.
This Group will bolster our coordination in
addressing issues impacting the
semiconductor industry. We will also advance
our cooperation on secure and resilient
undersea cable connectivity, in particular for
strategic routes such as the Arctic and the
Pacific. Our efforts will include better
coordination on technical security
requirements and advancing research on the
economic and environmental sustainability of
cable connectivity.
Given the potential of quantum technology
developments, we will adopt or implement
our respective quantum strategies. We also
affirm our commitment to promoting
responsible innovation of biotechnology,
including its convergence with AI.
We support the development of frontier
science, emerging technologies and research
infrastructures to solve global challenges,
including a better understanding of the

ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. We also
emphasize the importance of promoting
international talent mobility and circulation in
emerging technologies among the G7 and
partners, as well as cooperation with low and
middle-income countries. In this regard, we
reiterate our commitment to open science and
research security and integrity.
We support further efforts to promote and
reinforce research security and integrity,
together with like-minded partners. We
welcome the Extension of the G7 Virtual
Academy to non-G7 like-minded partners to
share best practices and policies on research
security and integrity, and we welcome that
Italy will host a G7 conference on these topics
this year.
We recognize the impact of AI on the military
domain and the need for a framework for
responsible development and use. We
welcome those who have endorsed the
Political Declaration on Responsible Military
Use of AI and Autonomy (REAIM) and the
REAIM Call to Action, and we encourage
more states to do so to ensure that military use

of AI is responsible, complies with applicable
international law, particularly international
humanitarian law, and enhances international
security.
We strongly support the implementation of
the International Guidelines adopted at the
UN Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer
Space as urgent and necessary. We welcome
national efforts to develop further solutions
for space debris mitigation and remediation,
including further research and development of
orbital debris mitigation and remediation
technologies, and the development of space
sustainability standards and regulations.
We welcome the establishment of the G7
Venice Justice Group, which will serve as a
coordinative function to address global
challenges, including AI, using our judicial
and enforcement expertise. Against this
background, we recognize the impacts of
deploying AI within the justice sector and that
the use of AI systems must not interfere with
the decision-making power of judges nor
judicial independence.
Labor and Employment

We will continue promoting job quality and
decent work as well as the fundamental
principles and rights at work, including the
right to safe and healthy working
environments, underlining the important role
of social dialogue and collective bargaining in
this regard. We commit to ensure full respect
of international labor standards and human
rights to promote fair and non-exploitative
working conditions, including in global value
chains, in particular the fundamental
conventions adopted by the ILO. We will
promote technical cooperation on these issues
and will intensify our efforts to abolish all
forms of forced and compulsory labor and
child labor. We will continue advancing the
inclusion of persons with disabilities and
accelerating gender and other forms of
equality in the world of work. We underscore
the importance of continuing investing in
human capital and lifelong learning systems
that provide high-quality job opportunities for
all, including those in the green and digital
economy. To address the challenges of ageing
societies, we will continue to work for
resilient labor markets and to promote active

and healthy ageing, addressing obstacles to
labor market participation, especially of the
underrepresented groups, and will promote
solutions to improve working conditions in
the care sector to make it more attractive for
job seekers and qualified workers and to
better support our citizens over their
life-course.
Cybersecurity
The security of our societies increasingly
depends on an open, interoperable, safe,
secure, resilient, human rights respecting use
of cyberspace. We rely on the continuing
work of the Ise-Shima Cyber Group in
advancing responsible state behavior in
cyberspace, through the application of
international law, including IHL, effective
confidence-building measures, targeted
capacity-building initiatives, based on a
multistakeholder approach, and integrating
cybersecurity into the development agenda.
We reaffirm our support for the Program of
Action to Advance Responsible State’
Behaviour in the Use of ICTs in the context of
international security, as the permanent and

action-oriented mechanism to hold
discussions on cybersecurity at the UN from
2025 onwards.
We are resolute in countering strategic threats
and in holding malicious cyber actors to
account. Our relevant institutions will
intensify their work on enhancing information
exchange and coordination. We are committed
to taking concrete steps to improve our
collective resilience through the newly
established G7 Cybersecurity Working Group
leveraging synergies with the Ise-Shima
Cyber Group.
We are pursuing a four-fold approach to
counter malicious cyber activities: i)
promoting responsible state behavior in cyber
space, ii) improving cybersecurity, including
in the private sector; iii) developing and using
tools to deter and respond to malicious (state)
behavior and to cyber criminals, and disrupt
the infrastructure they use, including by
enhancing coordination on attribution
processes; and iv) strengthening our partners’
cyber security capacity.

To counter the rise in ransomware attacks by
cybercriminals, we continue to make best use
of the International Counter Ransomware
Initiative and will coordinate our efforts to
avoid ransom payments. We will also consider
actions to impose costs on malicious actors.
We recognize rising cyber threats to critical
infrastructure, in particular in the energy
sector, which is heavily targeted by
adversarial countries and criminals. We will
continue discussions on good cybersecurity
practices in these sectors, including ways to
increase supply chains resilience and security,
whilst acknowledging existing regulatory
frameworks. To incentivize tech companies to
build more secure Internet of Things products
we will promptly explore avenues towards
establishing mutual recognition of schemes
for reliable cyber-safe products. We strongly
encourage manufacturers to improve the
security of products throughout their life cycle
and make them secure-by-design and
secure-by-default.
We are willing to work with all those who
share our common objective to ensure a
cyberspace that supports inclusive and
democratic societies, narrows the gender gap

in this field, and promotes multistakeholder
partnerships, including with the private sector.
Migration
We affirm our collective commitment to
addressing migration as a global phenomenon,
tackling the challenges it presents and seizing
the opportunities it brings globally, through an
integrated, comprehensive, balanced
approach, in line with international law. We
recognize that developing sustainable,
inclusive solutions to effectively manage
migration to the benefit of all, including low-
and middle-income countries facing
significant migratory pressures, demands
collective actions carried out in a spirit of
commitment and joint responsibility. We will
work to ensure a governance of migration that
is increasingly effective and sustainable
within the framework of our international
obligations, relevant treaties and conventions.
While doing so, we reaffirm our commitment
to ensuring full respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, regardless of
their migratory status, and, in this regard, we
also recall the right of everyone to seek

asylum from persecution as per the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and to seek
international protection as safeguarded by the
Geneva Convention on Refugees.
Against this background, we will enhance
cooperation by promoting a three-pronged
approach, in partnership with countries of
origin and transit, focusing on: (i) the root
causes of irregular migration, through
sustainable development initiatives, economic
investment, and stabilization efforts, in
partnership with countries of origin and
transit; (ii) efforts to enhance border
management and enforcement and curb
transnational organized crime involved in
migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons;
(iii) safe and regular pathways for migration.
Our vision draws also on the principles of the
Rome Process, the Los Angeles Declaration
on Migration and Protection, as well as the
Global Forum on Migration and
Development.
Under the first pillar, we will enhance efforts
to address the root causes of irregular
migration and forced displacement – such as

conflict, political instability, poverty, crime,
corruption, and human rights abuses. We also
acknowledge that climate change is a risk
multiplier, intersecting with and exacerbating
other drivers of mobility. We aim to foster
comprehensive and equitable partnerships
between countries of origin, transit, and
destination to pave the way for long-term
structural solutions that contribute to
sustainable development, resilience, and
stability. We will strengthen collaboration and
regional efforts to support economic,
governance, social, and environmental
conditions, enabling all individuals to live and
thrive in their own countries, safeguarding
their safety, rights, and dignity. In this regard,
we acknowledge that countries of origin and
countries and communities hosting large
numbers of migrants and refugees may need
international financial assistance to support
development, as well as humanitarian
assistance, security, public health, education
and employment. To do so, we will leverage
our policies and actions, to ensure that we
address the root causes of irregular migration.
For the second pillar, we will step up our

efforts to prevent and address irregular
migration, counter the illegal activities that
facilitate it, and tackle the challenges it poses
to individuals and societies. We affirm the
sovereign right of states to control their
borders, as well as their prerogative to govern
migration within their jurisdiction, in
conformity with international law. We
promote actions that are in line with
international law, including international
human rights law, and the principle of
non-refoulement. We will employ a
whole-of-route approach, and work towards
strategies aimed at deterring individuals from
embarking on irregular and perilous migration
journeys.
In particular, we will work to strengthen
border management and visa policies and
processes, also with a view to limit the
activities of migrant smuggling and
trafficking networks. We will also work
collectively to support the safe and dignified
return of persons not eligible to remain, as
well as to support sustainable reintegration
efforts in countries of origin. We will leverage
our collective diplomatic efforts in

encouraging countries to readmit their
nationals, in line with their international
commitments and through due processes.
In line with the UN Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)
and its Protocols, we will also strengthen our
actions to prevent, counter, and dismantle
organized criminal networks that profit from
the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in
persons and disrupt their business models. To
this end, we are launching a G7 Coalition to
Prevent and Counter the Smuggling of
Migrants. Through this initiative, we will
promote enhanced cooperation on
investigative capacities, engaging relevant
authorities in countries of origin, transit, and
destination. We will encourage advancements
toward improved and reliable data exchanges,
crucial for evidence-based joint enforcement
actions against smuggling and trafficking
networks. We will utilize a “follow the
money” approach to effectively identify,
investigate, and disrupt organized crime,
tackling financial aspects, including enhanced
cooperation on asset confiscation. We also
recognize the importance of raising awareness

and informing potential migrants on the risks
associated with migrant smuggling and
trafficking in persons, to deter them from
embarking on perilous routes. We task our G7
Interior and Security Ministers, in
coordination with other relevant Ministers, to
create a dedicated Action Plan to advance the
G7 Coalition, to be adopted at the upcoming
Interior and Security Ministers meeting. In
implementing this Action Plan, we will ensure
the Coalition works through ongoing
partnerships and mechanisms, including with
UNODC and other relevant United Nations
bodies, the Financial Action Task Force,
INTERPOL, EUROPOL, the EU’s Global
Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling, and
through G7 frameworks such as the
Roma-Lyon Group and the Venice Justice
Group.
For the third pillar, we acknowledge the
importance of safe and regular pathways for
migrants and refugees as part of
comprehensive, whole-of-route migration
management strategies. Regular pathways can
represent realistic alternatives and have the
potential to reduce irregular migration and the

use of smuggling and trafficking networks,
and contribute to preventing the adverse
humanitarian consequences of embarking on
perilous routes. In this regard, we reaffirm our
commitment to ensuring safe, orderly, and
regular migration, and recognize the
important economic and social benefits that
migrants can bring to our countries as well as
to low- and middle-income countries,
including through remittances.
Regular pathways need to respond to national
requirements, adhere to our legislations,
sovereign decisions, and to the principles of
fair recruitment. Driven by a spirit of joint
responsibility, we will advance cooperation on
regular pathways, including by supporting
partner countries in improving migration
governance while addressing the challenges
and risks associated with irregular migration.
In this context, we acknowledge ongoing
regional efforts aimed at securing talents and
professional mobility, as well as programs
aimed at establishing and sustaining effective
avenues for resettlement. These initiatives can
provide safe and legal pathways for migrants
while also addressing labor gaps in countries
of destination. They should be designed in

consideration of the needs of vulnerable
populations and employ gender- and
age-sensitive approaches, to prevent abuses
and exploitation, protect human rights and
dignity, and enhance safety and security
worldwide. As such, we will continue to
include regular pathways as part of our
comprehensive policy frameworks, including
labor pathways implemented in partnership
with developing countries, as appropriate. We
will promote their effective and lawful
utilization, while sustaining and encouraging
discussions on these matters in relevant
international and regional fora, towards
increasingly shared and collaborative
approaches.
Global Economy and Finance
We acknowledge that the global economy has
shown greater resilience than expected, but it
remains exposed to risks arising from
geopolitical tensions, renewed volatility in
energy prices, and further disruptions to the
smooth functioning of supply chains. Our
policy efforts will continue to focus on
promoting innovation, the just green and

digital transitions, and productivity growth,
while gradually rebuilding fiscal buffers, and
ensuring price and financial stability. We also
reaffirm our existing G7 exchange rate
commitments. We express concerns about the
comprehensive use of non- market policies
and practices that create global spillovers. We
encourage work, among all relevant tracks, to
assess the macroeconomic impact of
subsidies, and other industrial and trade
policy measures globally, based on
comparable information; and to foster a
dialogue with non-G7 countries on issues
related to industrial policies, economic
fragmentation, market concentration risks and
overcapacity. To achieve these goals, we will
enhance cooperation to advance a G7
dialogue between relevant ministries, and, as
appropriate, also engage partners beyond the
G7, in addition to the IMF, WBG, WTO, and
OECD.
We underline the importance of the work
carried out by the Financial Stability Board
(FSB) and the Standard-setting Bodies to
identify, monitor and address vulnerabilities
in the financial system. We strongly support

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