G7 calls on OPEC to play key role to ease global energy supplies

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck, Executive Director of Greenpeace International Jennifer Morgan AND U.S. Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann hold a news conference after the sign of a joint declaration of a German-American climate and energy partnership between the government of the United States of America and the government of Germany during the meeting of the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers during the German G7 Presidency at the EUREF-Campus in Berlin, Germany May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse

Ministers from the Group of Seven countries on Friday called on OPEC to act responsibly to ease a global energy crunch brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as they announced a breakthrough commitment to phase out coal-fuelled power.

The call, made at the end of three-day talks in Berlin focused on climate change, underscored that the world's major economies were grappling with how to contain inflation and higher energy prices while sticking to environmental goals.