From vaccines to climate, G7 hopes to show the West is not over yet

The coronavirus ravaged the United States and Europe and climate change has challenged the assumptions of many of its economic models

The Group of Seven rich democracies will try to show the world at a summit this week that the West can still act in concert to tackle major crises by donating hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries and pledging to slow climate change.
 
US President Joe Biden, on his first foreign trip since winning power, will try to use the summit in the English seaside village of Carbis Bay to burnish his multilateral credentials after the tumult of Donald Trump’s presidency.
 
Whether on Covid-19 or climate change, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy,