G7 Ministers Agree on Seven Declarations Addressing Biodiversity and Pollution at Paris Summit

Environment ministers from G7 nations adopted seven declarations at the end of a two-day meeting in Paris on April 25, 2026, focusing on areas of agreement, including biodiversity and chemical pollution, while addressing climate change separately to maintain unity among members.

jp. French Environment Minister Monique Barbut, speaking at a news conference in Paris on April 24, 2026, described the results as exceptional given challenges to environmental multilateralism.

' Barbut emphasized, 'This is significant given the current challenges to environmental multilateralism. ' The G7 member states are France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. The United States pulled out of the Paris Agreement under President Donald Trump, who is in his second term.

U.S. representative engaged in discussions. The United States dispatched Usha-Maria Turner, an assistant administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency, to the talks. Other G7 nations were represented at the ministerial level.

Turner declined to comment when approached on Thursday during a ministerial visit to the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris. Armenia, Kenya, South Korea, and Mongolia sent high-level representatives to the meeting. Canada's minister for the environment, climate change and nature, Julie Dabrusin, said protecting nature and the climate 'went hand in hand' and that the Paris meetings canvassed both themes.

She added, 'The conversation is deeply intertwined. ' Ministers agreed on total convergence from all G7 nations on the presence of forever chemicals in water, according to Italy's minister for ecological transition, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. Ministers took the first concrete step toward establishing a new alliance for funding biodiversity.

France plans to announce a €600 million fund in June 2026 to support conservation in more than 100 national parks in Africa. Most of the €600 million fund, which equals $701 million, will come from philanthropic donors. jp reported.