Chairs’ Summary: 2025 G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting

Statement

October 31, 2025 Toronto, Ontario

Ministers of Energy and Environment of the Group of Seven (G7) gathered in Toronto, Ontario, from October 30-31, 2025. Topics discussed and solutions advanced included strengthening energy security and affordability; promoting energy innovation, including as it relates to AI; protecting the environment; and fighting climate change, with the objective of supporting competitive, prosperous, sustainable, and resilient economies and communities.

Five decades after the G7’s founding in 1975, Ministers discussed the strategic role for continued G7 leadership in the context of global multilateral efforts, through domestic and global action and investments, in pursuit of energy and environmental objectives.

Ministers discussed the impacts that global economic and geopolitical shifts, climate change, environmental degradation, and technological advancement are having on energy security and economic competitiveness. Their dialogue focused on delivering concrete solutions to respond to current and emerging risks and opportunities. They condemned the use of energy as a tool of coercion and were united in their condemnation of Russia’s war against Ukraine and recent direct attacks on Ukraine’s energy system. Ministers discussed how the G7 will continue to support the recovery of Ukraine’s energy sector through direct financial, assistance, policy, and resource alignment.

With the imperative of ensuring greater energy security for our populations, a prominent focus was placed on actions to secure resilient, reliable and transparent supply chains, particularly for critical minerals and key energy technologies and components for power systems. As members of the Critical Minerals Production Alliance, they shared how domestic policy tools will be leveraged to operationalize projects that will address global critical minerals supply chain concentration, disruptions and vulnerabilities. They identified collective actions to bring critical mineral projects into production with high standards, agreeing coordination is key to drive economic growth and strengthen supply chains. Ministers agreed that their critical minerals envoys would advance these actions, as well as consider how to structure and support the work under the Alliance to ensure its continued forward momentum.

Ministers were unified on the urgent need to make strategic investments to build out and modernize grid and transmission infrastructure to power the increasingly digitalized 21^st century economy. Discussions also considered efforts to bolster security for transition fuels. To meet ever-increasing demand for clean power, Ministers exchanged on the safe and responsible deployment of nuclear energy technologies as well as increased collaboration in fusion technology. The role of public and private sector investment in energy innovation was acknowledged as essential for boosting economic competitiveness and growth as well as meeting climate objectives.

The rising impacts and costs of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, including plastic pollution, and other environmental crises, were widely recognized by Ministers. This included particular emphasis on the role of climate change as a driver of increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, such as wildfires, as well as biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, water insecurity, and food insecurity, among other global impacts. The need for urgent, science-aligned action to accelerate efforts to fight climate change and achieve net-zero by 2050 was discussed. There was wide acknowledgement of the benefits, including significant economic benefits, of collectively fighting climate change.

Emphasizing the importance of advancing our Leaders’ commitments in the Kananaskis Wildfire Charter, and recognizing the devastating toll that extreme weather events can have on people, the economy and the environment, Ministers discussed the need to facilitate early warning systems for all, and to better equip public and private actors at all levels to prevent, predict, prepare for, and build resilience to extreme weather events, in line with the best available science, including the findings of the IPCC. Ministers also discussed priorities and actions to address water-related challenges, including the opportunity for the G7 to work together to develop shared priorities, as well as possible commitments and initiatives in the lead up to the 2026 UN Water Conference, with the aim of supporting concrete and action-oriented outcomes, and to undertake similar efforts for the 2028 UN Water Conference concluding the Water Action Decade. Ministers also discussed undertaking G7 coordination on a potential regular inter-governmental process on water within the UN system.

Moreover, a number of Ministers emphasized the importance of halting and reversing global biodiversity loss, and stressed their continued commitment to implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), including the 30 by 30 global conservation goal. They also welcomed the forthcoming entry into force of the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). In light of ongoing negotiations on a global plastics treaty, all Ministers also reaffirmed their constructive engagement towards an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.

Ministers considered the economic opportunity of action on energy and environment, and how the energy transition could foster economic competitiveness and growth, create prosperity and jobs, and ensure resilient and healthy communities. In this regard, Ministers discussed the economic opportunities presented by scaling up clean and renewable energy and innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and battery storage technologies. Many Ministers noted the contributions of energy efficiency for enhancing both energy security and energy transition goals, and opportunities for advancing energy efficiency across economies.

Ministers also reflected on the opportunities to advance integrated approaches that leverage synergies and co-benefits for people, economies, and the environment, including Nature-based Solutions (NbS), the circular economy, and the sustainable management of water, marine, coastal and other natural capital to drive growth, create jobs and enhance prosperity, while ensuring alignment with national and international ocean and broader conservation objectives.

In that context, Ministers discussed how they can strategically deploy public resources for maximum impact. This includes mobilizing private finance for climate and environmental solutions to support the most impacted abroad, while generating economic opportunities, good jobs and sustainable growth at home, and targeting the most concessional finance to the most vulnerable, including Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

It was recognized that G7 efforts and delivery on shared priorities would require action from all partners, and leveraging partnerships, such as with other governments, Indigenous Peoples, the private sector, and civil society. Ministers welcomed the ongoing constructive role of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in providing data and analysis to inform work on energy systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and critical minerals.

In this regard, Ministers agreed to continue G7 efforts to enhance cooperation and collaboration, together and with partners, on key areas related to energy and environment. Their commitments included:

Fostering and intensifying joint work on freshwater through the G7 Water Coalition Workplan, with the objective of aligning efforts across global water-related processes to translate dialogue into meaningful action.
Advancing continued G7 action through the Toronto Action Plan on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency, with a particular focus on high-impact sectors of critical minerals and raw materials, textiles and fashion, and plastics.
Delivering the Roadmap to Promote Standards-Based Markets for Critical Minerals that will strengthen collective action on securing resilient, reliable and transparent critical minerals supply chains, as an early action in implementing the Critical Minerals Action Plan agreed by leaders at the Leaders Summit in Kananaskis.
Advancing the Canada-led Critical Minerals Production Alliance announced by G7 Leaders, to address supply chain vulnerabilities by taking decisive action with key partners and industry through strategic investments and offtakes in critical minerals projects necessary for defence and advanced manufacturing supply.
Collaborating with international and industry partners to deliver the Energy and AI Work Plan, as tasked by Leaders under the G7 Statement on AI for Prosperity. The Work Plan is designed to drive adoption of AI and digital technologies in energy systems, foster innovation, and develop the skills and workforce needed for responsible growth.
Taking action to build greater collective energy security through the G7 Call to Action on Enhancing Energy Security, and reaffirming support for Ukraine’s energy security and continued support for rebuilding a modern, reliable, resilient, and efficient Ukrainian energy system.
Seizing the opportunities of nuclear and fusion energy, supporting the deployment of innovative nuclear technologies such as small modular reactors and advanced reactors, and ensuring responsible waste management.

Discussions were informed and enriched by side events with industry, civil society and other partners and stakeholders, such as the Energy Innovation Forum, co-hosted with the IEA, the Atlantic Council’s Summit on the Future of Energy Security, and the High-Level Roundtable on Mobilizing International Private Finance for Climate and Environment, co-hosted with the World Resources Institute (WRI).

The G7 welcomed participation at the Ministerial Meeting by representatives from Australia, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the IEA, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, and the WRI.

Ministers looked forward to France’s leadership as G7 President in 2026.

Annexed G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting outcomes include:

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