A draft joint statement by climate and environment ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised nations contains a phaseout of coal-fired power generation by 2030, a Japanese government source said Thursday.
Germany, the rotating chair of the G-7, proposed the draft ahead of a meeting of the G-7 ministers slated for late May in Berlin. Japan, with a relatively high dependence on coal, is requesting the target be removed from the statement as members of the group continue discussing it, the source said.
