Climate Change

The G7 Expert Workshop on Assessing Climate Change and Fragility was held at Berlin, Germany on October 26th 2016.

The Expert Workshop aimed at making recommendation to the G7 Working Group on Climate and Fragility established at G7 Foreign Minister’ s Meeting at Lübeck, Germany on April 2015. Recommendation will be made in light of the technical and expert point of views regarding to Climate Change and Fragility.　At this meeting, experts discussed how risk assessment was done regarding to the risk of Climate Change and Fragility.

Japan will host the G7 Working Group and Expert Group at Tokyo in January 2017 as the Chair of G7 Foreign Minister’s Meeting. Japan will continue to make with other G7 members to tackle toward the common goal of G7 countries to increase resilience and to reduce fragility in the face of global climate change.

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G7 Working Group on Climate and Fragility

• The Expert Meeting to analyze impact to Climate Change and Security and economy was held from 2013 under the initiative of England which was chair of G8 at the time. Consortium of think tanks including Adelphi which was requested from the G7 Working Group developed the report (A New Climate for Pease)
• At the G7 Foreign Minister’s Meeting at Lübeck, Germany, the report was welcomed and the Working Group was established to discuss recommendation of the report. The Working Group was requested to report the result of the discussion at the G7 Foreign Minister’s Meeting in 2016.

At the G7 Foreign Minister’s Meeting (Hiroshima) in 2016, two year mandate was created for the G7 Working Group.