Analysis: Cornwall summit revived multilateralism, but lacked key decisions on climate, vaccines and China
Boris Johnson struggled to present an agreement by G7 world leaders in Cornwall as a breakthrough matching the scale of the crises facing the globe after the final communique of the rich nations’ club contained no early timetable to eradicate coal-fired emissions, offered only 1bn extra vaccines for the world’s poor over the next 12 months, and made no new binding commitments to challenge China’s human rights abuses.
Green groups and anti-poverty campaigners expressed profound disappointment at the failure to attach new cash to the communique’s aspirations aimed at ending the pandemic, “building back better” and saving the world from imminent climate catastrophe.
