Creating Compliance with G20 and G7 Climate Change Commitments through Global, Regional and Local Actors

Second, it analyzes the causes of compliance and assesses the impacts of the traditional accountability measures, of the binding level and synergistic links of the commitments, and of the major actors specified above. [...] Fifth, it considers how compliance with climate commitments at the G7 Cornwall Summit and the G20 Rome Summit might be spurred by the special summits in early 2021 — the G7’s on February 19, the Quadrilateral’s on March 12, and the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22–23. [...] The Supporting Summits of 2021 The relevance of trans-regional PSIs such as the G7, OECD and APEC in increasing G20 compliance leads to a brief examination of the actual and prospective climate performance of three special summits that arose in the first four months of 2021 to respond to the crises of the time. [...] G20 leaders, meeting in Rome on the eve of the UN’s Glasgow Summit starts, and without Merkel, should produce fewer but highly ambitious climate change commitments, and be guided more by the EU, G7 and OECD, and the recommendations of the ecologically focused U20 and the relevant recommendations of the T20. [...] The first task is thus to compare the most John Kirton, Brittaney Warren and Jessica Rapson, April 1, 2021 9 Creating Compliance with G20 and G7 Climate Change Commitments through Global, Regional and Local Actors cost-effective climate control measures, starting with those ranked by the authoritative Project Drawdown, with the climate and related commitments the G7 and G20 have made (Hawken 2017).