TOKYO -- Ahead of the Group of Seven meeting on climate and energy in Japan this weekend, ministers from Canada and the U.K. pressed for a strict "collective" stance against the use of coal power, setting up a clash with Tokyo's strategy for reducing carbon emissions from Asian coal plants.
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Canada's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault, left, and the U.K.'s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Grant Shapps. (Photos by Shoichiro Taguchi and Yuki Kohara)
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