Environment ministers from the Group of Seven nations meeting in Japan have collectively said they are committed to ensuring global climate change would be tackled swiftly in line with the deal struck in Paris last year.
Following a two-day meeting which concluded Monday the ministers adopted a joint statement which affirmed their intentions to put into practice the Paris climate accord reached last year.
They also agreed to advance the timetable for mid and long-term climate change solutions before the deadline, initially set for 2020.
United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said on Monday after a related conference in Germany, that she was optimistic that the climate agreement reached in Paris last year will bear fruit quickly.
"If you want to hear why I think, that we are going to go very quickly now, it's because: yes, certainly the threats have been fully understood. And this year again, and today again, we get more and more information from science as to the temperatures rising with all of the attendant impacts that we're having around the earth."
The landmark Paris Agreement was a commitment by nearly 200 countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 with the aim of limiting the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
