British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke in the run-up to chairing the G7 summit in southwest England, proposing that the richest countries donate a total of 1,000 million coronavirus vaccines to developing nations between now and the end of 2022. In a statement, the premier called on core countries to “protect humanity everywhere” by mass immunizing the planet: “It can be done, it must be done, and this G7 summit should decide what will be done,” he emphasized. It took our scientists only 300 days to decipher Covid and produce the vaccines, but we must be able to respond even more quickly. This G7 summit will initiate a new effort to accelerate the development of vaccines, treatments and tests for any new viruses from 300 to 100 days,” he said.
Along these lines, the premier reaffirmed that the world has an obligation to ensure that “something good can emerge from today’s ordeal”: “It remains a moral outrage and a serious impediment to economic growth that millions of girls around the world are denied education, which slows down the development of entire societies.” Said. In this regard, Johnson anticipated that he will ask “the G7 and our guests to contribute more to the Global Partnership for Education’s goal of raising US$5 billion for schools in the developing world.” We will unite the world to fight for this essential goal when the UK hosts the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November. In the meantime, I want the G7 to protect biodiversity for future generations by committing to protect at least 30 percent of our land and oceans by 2030,” he continued. Ultimately, the official noted the need to “provide developing countries with the transparent, high-quality investment they need to build clean and green national infrastructure, boosting their economies.”
Finally, Johnson said, “This is a compelling agenda for global recovery, ambitious but achievable, provided we muster will and ingenuity.” Britain has the privilege of chairing the G7 and of playing our part, together with our like-minded democracies, in setting this immense effort in motion. The scale of the challenge demands no less,” the statement concludes.
