G7 to agree climate, conservation targets as summit ends

CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom: G7 leaders on Sunday will back new conservation and emission targets to curb climate change, and finalize collective action on several other fronts, as they wrap up a three-day summit aimed at showcasing revived Western unity.

The group of leading economies, holding their first in-person gathering in nearly two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, will agree to protect at least 30 percent of both land and ocean globally by the end of the decade.