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To do their part to limit warming to 1.5°C, G7 countries should aim for a 58% emissions reduction target by 2030, Neil Grant told EnergyTracker. “These economies, who make up 38% of the world’s GDP, are not pulling their weight: they have both the technology and the finance to up their game," he said.

Japan’s current policies would only bring coal’s electricity share down to 19% by 2030. In order to meet the Paris climate agreement target of limiting warming this century to less than 1.5°C, Japan has to move far more quickly than the G7's promise to "phase out existing unabated coal power generation” by 2035. “2035 is too late,” Jane Ellis told Vox.

"Fossil gas is not a transition fuel. It’s one of the main contributors to global warming and has been the largest source of increases of CO2 [emissions] over the last decade," Bill Hare told the BBC.

“Many of these countries have already publicly committed to phase out dates ahead of 2030, and only have a small amount of coal capacity anyway,” Jane Ellis told CNN.

Countries that wish to demonstrate the ambition needed to limit warming to 1.5°C should take a tougher stance, Jane Ellis told the Financial Times.

"Every dollar spent propping up the fossil fuel industry is a dollar which could be spent on rolling out renewables. Every coal plant that continues to operate post-2030 is providing emissions which is going to continue to heat the planet", Neil Grant said on FORESIGHT Climate & Energy’s podcast The Jolt.

G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin today. According to our analysis, not one member of the group is on track to meet existing emission reduction targets for 2030.

“We find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024,” Neil Grant told Vox, “this would make 2023 the year of peak emissions.”

G7 economies which "represent 38% of global GDP, are not doing what is necessary despite having both the technology and the financial resources to make the leap in quality", Neil Grant told la Repubblica.

"Emission increases in Western Australia are holding back progress Australia-wide", Bill Hare told the ABC. "A bit less than half of this increase [in emissions in WA] was due to energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, and most of the rest due to a reduction in the amount of carbon stored in forest and land."