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2023 G7 Hiroshima Goals Set

Compiled by Keah Sharma and Malhaar Mohrarir, Co-chairs of Summit Studies, G7 Research Group
May 11, 2023

The G7 2023 Hiroshima Summit Goals Report is prepared by the G7 Research Group based at the University of Toronto. It identifies the goals set for the Hiroshima Summit on May 19–21, 2023, and provides the basis for a qualitative assessment of how well these goals will be achieved at the summit, which will be conducted after the summit.

The report is split into two categories: by subject and by G7 members. The Goals Set and Met Report will include averages for both categories to produce the overall evaluation score for the summit as a whole.

Table 1: Goals Set by Subject

Table 2: Goals Set by G7 Member

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Assessments: Goals Set by Subject

If the 2023 Hiroshima Summit is to be successful on these subjects, it must do the following in order of importance.

Climate Change

Serene Honekin

1. We will strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement and Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to work towards a successful 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and achieve global net-zero emissions by 2050 the latest.
2. We commit to fostering international cooperation to accelerate clean and sustainable energy transitions to keep a temperature limit of 1.5°C within reach and achieve the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.
3. We commit to reducing dependency on fossil fuels to speed up the decarbonization of global energy systems while promoting clean, safe, and sustainable energy development to support the global energy transition.
4. We reaffirm our commitment to the developed country goal of jointly mobilising USD 100 billion annually in climate finance through to 2025 and will continue accelerating our efforts to at least double the collective provision of climate finance for adaptation to developing countries from 2019 levels by 2025.
5. We commit to supporting capacity building in developing countries, aligning financial flows with the Paris Agreement, and promoting private investments, blended finance, and innovative finance to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Environment

Samraggi Hazra

1. We commit to implementing a comprehensive agenda for biodiversity in support of the Global Biodiversity Framework's "30x30" target and the G7 2030 Nature Compact to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
2. We are committed to improving resource efficiency to move towards circular economy in order to increase sustainability and reduce environmental challenges.
3. We will work towards halting and reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030.
4. We commit to combatting and ending illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and the destruction of the marine environment through unlawful fishing.
5. We will mobilize resources from all sources in order to increase funding for nature-based solutions for environmental problems.

Energy

Keah Sharma

1. We will continue to work closely together and with our partners to enforce the oil and petroleum product price caps and prevent attempts to evade or circumvent the measure.
2. We emphasise the importance of research, development and demonstration of technologies designed and integrated to address the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, the energy crisis and other related issues and to achieve sustainable development, and the need to deploy both existing and emerging solutions.
3. We will continue to help Ukraine repair and restore its critical energy and environmental infrastructure deliberately destroyed by Russia, and emphasize our strong support for the creation of clean and resilient energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
4. Recognizing the current global energy crisis and economic disruptions, we reaffirm our commitment to accelerating the clean energy transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest and recognize the importance of promoting an efficient diversification of supply sources to enhance energy security and energy affordability.
5. We pledge to increase security, sustainability, diversification, transparency and traceability of value chains globally, including by reducing reliance on insecure or monopolistic energy supply chains in a way that protects the environment and climate and respects human rights.

Economy

Keah Sharma

1. We remain determined to foster international cooperation to uphold multilateralism and address the global economic hardships caused by Russia's war and its weaponization of food and energy, which are disproportionately felt by low- and middle-income countries.
2. Noting that low- and middle-income countries are disproportionally affected by Russia's war of aggression and associated global challenges, we commit to step up our efforts and contribute to the G20 agenda to support them. This includes supporting work in the G20 on debt vulnerabilities, promoting efforts by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to make the most efficient use of their balance sheets based on the recommendations of the G20 MDB Capital Adequacy Framework Review, and review their business models to better address transboundary challenges.
3. We remain committed to jointly addressing challenges to long-term growth, including facilitating the net-zero and digital transitions, and the massive investments required. We commit to mobilize high levels of private and public investments, including those in human capital, to unleash the potential for innovation, productivity gains and emission reduction.

Health

Samraggi Hazra and Eisha Khan

1. We will strengthen our health systems in order to improve prevention, readiness and response for future pandemics.
2. We reaffirm our commitment towards attaining universal health coverage in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
3. We will strengthen primary health care, addressing treatment and resources for both transmittable diseases and non-communicable diseases.
4. We commit to addressing the intersectionality between gender and health, and will continue our efforts towards meeting the particular needs of women and contributing to funds such as the Global Financing Facility.
5. We will provide support to low- and middle-income countries to implement the requirements of the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations.

Trade

Malhaar Moharir

1. We commit to maintaining and strengthening a free and fair trade system, particularly through implementing reforms to the World Trade Organization.
2. We will continue to advance the digital and green transitions in developing countries through inclusive and sustainable trade partnerships.
3. We pledge to enhance and develop global supply chains by emphasizing transparency, diversifying networks, ensuring their security and strengthening trustworthiness and reliability.
4. We will deepen our collaboration on concrete measures or initiatives to ensure a level playing field for our workers and businesses, with an emphasis on addressing pervasive and harmful industrial subsidies, market-distortive practices of state-owned enterprises, and all forms of forced technology transfer.
5. We affirm the importance of cooperation on export controls on critical and emerging technologies such as microelectronics and cyber surveillance systems to address the misuse of such technologies by malicious actors and inappropriate transfers of such technologies.

Development

Malhaar Moharir

1. We resolve to establish resilient, sustainable and inclusive social infrastructure so that everyone can benefit from economic growth.
2. We will renew our efforts to increase the availability of quality education, training and upskilling opportunities for youth, women, and small and medium-sized enterprises, to assist the most vulnerable groups in labour market transformations.
3. We emphasize the importance of diversifying international, regional and local supply chains of agricultural products and inputs in order to improve their resilience and sustainability in the long term.
4. We commit to creating a policy environment which facilitates private sector investment in agriculture and food systems, in accordance with the Committee on Food Security Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food System.
5. We will work with the social partners and other relevant stakeholders to promote adequate wages and help workers transition to sustainable growing and emerging sectors.

Gender

Eisha Khan

1. We reaffirm our commitments to educational equality and will work towards removing barriers to girls' education globally.
2. We will advance the economic empowerment of women in particular by pursuing the equitable distribution of care work and equal pay.
3. We commit to use an intersectional approach in improving the equal participation of women in leadership positions.
4. We seek to ensure full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in all their diversity as well as LGBTIQ+ persons in politics, economics, education and all other spheres of society, and to consistently mainstream gender equality into all policy areas.
5. We will continue to improve strategies, policies and programs that pursue the prevention of and protection from gender-based violence.

Digital

Joy Chan

1. We call on the Institutional Arrangement for Partnership to pay particular attention to the areas of data localization, regulatory cooperation, trusted government access to data, and data sharing as identified by the G7 based on the 2021 Roadmap for Cooperation on Data Free Flow with Trust endorsed by G7 leaders and the 2022 Action Plan for Promoting Data Free Flow with Trust.
2. We share a common vision for future networks with the elements of end-to-end high-capacity and ultra low latency, energy efficiency and environmental impacts, multi-layered network and frequency efficiency to realize the potential of the digital environment in the Beyond 5G/6G era.
3. We affirm our support for developing countries and emerging economies to build secure and resilient digital infrastructure, including capacity building on cybersecurity e.g., through cooperation and partnership with the private sector, international organizations and development agencies such as the World Bank and ITU.
4. We resolve to work together to identify priority fora for the joint promotion of the Declaration for the Future of the Internet and in implementing its principles into action.
5. We resolve to support the role of interoperable tools for trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) in promoting human-centric and trustworthy AI, and recognize their role in building trust in AI and data-driven economies, as well as in creating open and enabling environments for responsible AI innovation.

Crime

Arad Farhadi-Niaki

1. We reconfirm the need to accelerate cooperation with our partners to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism, including terrorist financing and misuse of cyberspace for terrorist purposes.
2. We reiterate the importance of combating transnational organized crime including crimes related to drug trafficking, small arms and light weapons trafficking, human trafficking, and child abuse, both online and offline.
3. We remain committed to safe, orderly and regular migration around the world and will continue to engage in preventing and countering migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons.
4. We commit to ensure strong and effective implementation of our existing obligations and commitments to counter corruption, including efforts to fight against foreign bribery, and work to advance our common anti-corruption priorities.
5. We must continue to compile evidence of Russia's ongoing and widespread atrocities, including executions; torture, rape and sexual violence; the deportation of thousands of Ukrainian civilians to Russia.

Terrorism

Alan Fan

1. We underscore the Taliban's responsibility to ensure respect for human rights and a dignified life of all Afghans, the country's stability and recovery, as well as to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for terrorism. We are united in condemning the recurring terrorist attacks, including those that target specific ethnic and religious groups.
2. We express our grave concern regarding Iran's continued destabilizing activities, including the transfer of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and related technologies to state and non-state actors and proxy groups in breach of United Nations Security Council resolutions including 2231 and 2216.
3. We commit to working together with Central Asian countries to address regional challenges, including the consequences of Russia's war of aggression, the destabilizing effect of the situation in Afghanistan, food and energy insecurity, terrorism, and the consequences of climate change.
4. We reiterate our strong commitment to supporting governments in the region to tackle the underlying conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism, violent extremism and instability across Africa.
5. We reconfirm the need to accelerate cooperation with our partners to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism, including terrorist financing and misuse of cyberspace for terrorist purposes.

Non-proliferation

Joy Chan

1. We urge North Korea to fully comply with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, and to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
2. Any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons by Russia would be met with severe consequences. We support the IAEA's efforts to help strengthen nuclear safety and security in Ukraine, including the Director General's leadership on efforts at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station.
3. We reiterate our clear determination that Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon, and urge Iran to cease nuclear escalations. We call on Iran to fulfill its legal obligations and political commitments regarding nuclear non-proliferation without further delay.
4. We call for the immediate commencement of long-overdue negotiations of a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices while urging all states that have not yet done so to declare and maintain voluntary moratoria on the production of such material.
5. We urge China to engage promptly in strategic risk reduction discussions with the United States and to promote stability through greater transparency of China's nuclear weapon policies, plans and capabilities.
6. We call on all states that committed to reporting annually their holdings of all plutonium in peaceful nuclear activities to the IAEA to fulfill those commitments. We also support the universal adoption of key safeguards agreements, including Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements, IAEA Additional Protocols and, where applicable, revised Small Quantities Protocol.

Regional Security

Arad Farhadi-Niaki

1. We reiterate our support for President Volodymyr Zelensky's efforts to promote a comprehensive, just and lasting peace, in line with the United Nations Charter, and we support the basic principles outlined in his Peace Formula.
2. We remain committed to intensifying sanctions against Russia, coordinating and fully enforcing them, including through the Enforcement Coordination Mechanism, and countering Russia's and third parties' attempts to evade and undermine our sanctions measures.
3. We will continue to provide assistance, including food-related aid, to help countries and populations affected by Russia's weaponization of food and energy resources.
4. We reiterate the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific, which is inclusive, prosperous, secure, based on the rule of law, and that protects shared principles including sovereignty, territorial integrity and peaceful resolution of disputes, fundamental freedoms and human rights.
5. We reaffirm the importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait as an indispensable element in security and prosperity in the international community, and call for the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues.

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Assessments: Goals Set by Member

If the 2023 Hiroshima Summit is to be successful for these members, it must do the following in order of importance.

Canada

Keah Sharma

1. We will continue to work closely together to address various international issues including Russia's aggression against Ukraine, to realize a Free and Open Indo-Pacific and to cooperate in the G7.
2. We will aim to become a reliable provider of critical minerals to international allies and advance secure supply chains and cooperation agreements for a green transition.
3. We will support inclusive economic growth, trade diversification and attracting foreign investment so that Canadians and Canadian businesses can benefit from jobs at home and abroad.
4. We will continue to work swiftly to conclude country cases under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and improve debt data accuracy and transparency and our commitment to publish our own creditor portfolios on a loan-by-loan basis for future direct lending.
5. We also remain committed to our agenda on women, peace and security, with an increased focus on intersectionality.

France

Serena Honekin

1. We reaffirm our strong and constant support for the universalization and the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with the aim to make legally binding the voluntary moratorium which is almost universally accepted.
2. We commit to promoting more sustainable trade practices that are compatible with our environmental and humanitarian objectives.
3. We commit to combating climate change under the Paris Agreement and through climate financing for developing countries to keep a 1.5°C limit of temperature rise within reach. We also commit to conserving marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
4. We commit to fight against global food insecurity and malnutrition, aggravated by Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
5. We continue to call for human rights defenders' protection to be fully respected, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the guarantee of safe, unhindered humanitarian access throughout the world.

Germany

Malhaar Moharir

1. We pledge to unequivocally stand by Ukraine in the face of Russia's unjustified actions by continuing to provide military and financial support for as long as is necessary.
2. We commit to strengthening global supply chains, particularly in the areas of critical minerals and chip technology.
3. We commit to advancing the green transition both domestically and internationally by advancing sustainable trade partnerships.
4. We pledge to continue our support for the people in the Sahel region by ensuring coordinated and effective military and humanitarian assistance.
5. We pledge to strengthen global energy security by promoting regional cooperation and improving essential green-energy infrastructure both domestically and internationally.

Italy

Eisha Khan

1. We will continue to support food security and the availability and sustainable use of fertilizers to vulnerable countries in need of assistance and welcome the related work undertaken by the World Food Programme and other relevant agencies.
2. We reaffirm our commitment to strengthening the unprecedented and coordinated sanctions and other economic measures the G7 and partner countries have taken to date to further counter Russia's capacity to wage its illegal aggression.
3. We express our commitment to strengthening economic security, especially in partnership with the most vulnerable countries.
4. We reaffirm our commitment to accelerating the clean energy transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest.
5. We will address the causes and consequences of the global food crisis through a Global Alliance for Food Security, as our joint initiative to ensure momentum and coordination, and other efforts.

Japan

Alan Fan

1. We commit to supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression.
2. We commit to promoting bilateral cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and the vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific as a permanent pillar of international policy.
3. We recognize the importance of engaging candidly with and expressing our concerns directly to China.
4. We condemn North Korea's unlawful ballistic missile testing and systematic human rights abuses, with specific reference to North Korea's abduction of foreign nationals.
5. We commit to promoting the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and commit to advancing the United Kingdom's accession process.

United Kingdom

Samraggi Hazra

1. We will continue to provide resources and financing for nature in order to cooperate with the commitments made at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
2. We commit to strengthening Ukraine's capabilities against the Russian invasion, including through the supply of humanitarian, economic, and military aid, and through continued sanctions against Russia.
3. We are committed towards a complete phase-out of coal-powered energy, including through multilateral partnerships such as the Power Past Coal Alliance, in order to transition into renewable energy.
4. We are committed towards maintaining a safe and reliable open global economy in order to promote an effective multilateral trading system.
5. We reaffirm our commitment to delivering resources and funding to support poverty reduction across developing countries.

United States

Arad Farhadi-Niaki

1. We are committed to working with Ukraine, and peace-loving countries around the world, to stand up, staff, and resource an internationalized national court in a way that will achieve comprehensive accountability for the international crimes being committed in Ukraine.
2. We are committed to a pandemic accord process, with a goal of developing an accord that builds on lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic and strengthens US national security by establishing clear, agreed roles and responsibilities for the World Health Organization and its member states and partners.
3. We remain committed to developing new steps to reach the 1.5°C-aligned goal of reducing emissions by 50 to 52 percent in 2030.
4. We affirm that to reduce the risk of ISIS/Da'esh re-emerging in Syria and Iraq, more joint effort should be encouraged globally to ensure that a practical and sustainable solution is achieved for individuals currently located in camps and detention facilities in northeast Syria that could include safe repatriation, rehabilitation, reintegration and prosecution, as appropriate.
5. In light of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, we must commit to providing additional security assistance to Ukraine, delivering needed economic support, strengthening Ukraine's energy infrastructure, imposing economic costs on Russia and increasing the use of accountability tools against Russia.

European Union

Joy Chan

1. We emphasize the importance of the G7 discussion on China and North Korea in the current geopolitical and regional context and stressed the need for continued cooperation with like-minded partners in the Indo-Pacific.
2. We strongly support the permanent reinstatement of the G7 agriculture track, as a key forum for coordinating the policy efforts of advanced economies in response to both immediate urgencies as well as the long-term objectives of the sustainable transformation of agriculture.
3. We strive to promote gender equality and women's empowerment across the globe, both in international fora and through external actions.
4. We intend to continue providing emergency energy assistance to Ukraine via the support fora set up in 2022, including the G7+ coordination forum and the International Advisory Energy Council for Ukraine, and to other heavily affected countries in the region such as Moldova.
5. We re-emphasize our shared commitment to our coordinated economic measures in response to Russia's war of aggression.

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