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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the start of a G7 bilateral meeting. Credit - Associated Press
June 18, 2021
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G7 countries took major steps to address the resilience of the planet as leaders met in the coastal Cornwall region of England where a new Blue Planet Fund was launched to help protect the ocean. The G7 is to endorse a Nature Compact at a meeting on Sunday to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The commitments in the agreement include supporting a global target to conserve or protect at least 30 per cent of land and 30 per cent of ocean globally by the end of the decade.

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