EDITORS' INTRODUCTIONS
Promising prospects for a productive Kananaskis Summit
Joining Carney as a G7 summit newcomer are British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer, Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru, German chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Council president António Costa. Joining Trump as veterans are French president Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Their invited guests include Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese and South Korea’s president. CHALLENGING TIMES These leaders will confront a full range of interconnected crises and challenges, including the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, conflicts between India and Pakistan and elsewhere, and the need for clean energy to combat the existential threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. The summit simultaneously faces the revolutionary benefits and risks brought by artificial intelligence, quantum computing and associated digital technologies, amid economic, food and health insecurity, declines in development, debt sustainability and democracy, and new challenges from financial instability, migration and border security. The Kananaskis
As Canada prepares to host the G7’s 50th anniversary summit in Kananaskis, a new cast of leaders must navigate widening geopolitical fractures, complex global crises and growing divergences. Yet amid the uncertainty, the G7 can lead, as a force for stability, equity and collective action
F or the G7’s 50th anniversary in 2025 and its 51st annual gathering, Canada will host the summit once again at Kananaskis, Alberta, in the majestic Rocky Mountains, on 15–17 June. It will be a landmark event in many ways. It starts a new generation of the G7’s growing performance and contribution to global governance, after its first half century of work since 1975. It starts the final five years to reach the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
John Kirton, director, G7 Research Group
It is the return for a second term of US president Donald Trump, now often waging verbal and economic war on the G7 host and the other G7 partners too. And it marks the first outing on the full world stage of Mark Carney, elected Canada’s prime minister on 28 April, as the leader of a transcontinental, ecological and energy superpower bordering the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
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