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G7 Canada: The 2025 Kananaskis Summit
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch, with Martha Hall Findlay
Published by GT Media, 2025
Free digital version available here
See also the Global Governance Project
Welcome Message
- A new era of Canadian leadership
- Mark Carney, prime minister, Canada
Leaders’ Views
- Power, prosperity and protection
- Donald Trump, president, United States
- Securing borders, shaping futures
- Giorgia Meloni, prime minister, Italy
- Stronger together: Uniting for peace, prosperity and sovereignty
- Emmanuel Macron, president, France
- A roadmap for economic growth, national security and global engagement
- Ishiba Shigeru, prime minister, Japan
- Transatlantic resolve in Ukraine and beyond
- Friedrich Merz, chancellor, Germany
- Security, sovereignty and stability in a changing world
- Sir Keir Starmer, prime minister, United Kingdom
- Reliable partnerships in a world of uncertainty
- António Costa, president, European Council
- Europe stands tall: Open, united and ready to lead
- Ursula von der Leyen, president, European Commission
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Editors' Introductions
- Promising prospects for a productive Kananaskis Summit
- John Kirton, director, G7 Research Group
- The G7 confronts a new world order as leaders return to Kananaskis
- Martha Hall Findlay, director and Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
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1. Military Security
- G7 performance on Ukraine
- Zoe Mason, senior researcher, G7 Research Group
- Holding the line: Why Ukraine’s defence matters to us all
- Aurel Braun, professor of international relations and political science, University of Toronto
- Charting a path to stability in the Middle East
- Interview with Sanam Vakil, director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
- The G7 and global AI competition: What the G7 needs to do to stay ahead in the AI race
- George Takach, author, Cold War 2.0
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2. Economic and Social Security
- G7 performance on macroeconomic policy
- Angela Minyi Hou, senior researcher, G7 Research Group
- Stronger together: Harnessing the economic power of multilateralism
- Mathias Cormann, OECD secretary general
- The G7 at a critical crossroads
- Mark Sobel, US chair, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
- America’s exit and the future of global corporate tax reform
- Michael F. Motala, fellow, G7 Research Group
- Digital finance at a crossroads
- Chiara Oldani, lecturer, monetary economics, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
- G7 performance on trade
- Sarah Richardson, research associate, G7 Research Group
- Seizing the opportunities within the global trade crisis
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general, World Trade Organization
- State-of-the-art customs at the forefront of global trade transformation
- Ian Saunders, secretary general, World Customs Organization
- Trade policy: Time for candid conversations
- Simon J. Evenett, IMD Business School
- Building resilience through fair and inclusive employment
- Gilbert Houngbo, director general, International Labour Organization
- G7 performance on gender equality
- Julia Kulik, director of strategic initiatives and public engagement, G7 Research Group
- Will the G7 stand firm on LGBTIQ+ and women’s rights?
- Beth Woroniuk and Diana Sarosi, Women 7 2025 co-chairs
- Reinforcing responsible tourism
- Zurab Pololikashvili, secretary general, UN Tourism
- Hospitality’s strategic role in economic resilience and climate leadership
- Glenn Mandziuk, CEO, World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance
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3. Innovative Technology, Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence
- G7 performance on artificial intelligence, ICT and digitalisation
- Nancy E. Scott, legal director, G7 Research Group
- Collaboration creates breakthroughs for a better world
- Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary general, International Telecommunication Union
- The G7 and the future of AI governance
- Kenddrick Chan, LSE IDEAS, and Chris Alden, professor of international relations, LSE
- AI advances are shifting the balance between opportunities and risks
- Yoshua Bengio, professor, Université de Montréal, and scientific director, Mila
- Shaping the global governance of quantum technology for sustainable development
- Tim Smith, Open Quantum Institute
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4. Borders, Migration and Refugees
- Strengthening the global shield against illicit finance
- Elisa de Anda Madrazo, president, Financial Action Task Force
- A global response to drug trafficking
- Ghada Waly, executive director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- A new direction for the global migration system
- Amy Pope, director general, International Organization for Migration
- The G7: Uniting to stop human trafficking and migration crimes
- Denisse Rudich, director, G7 and G20 Research Groups (London), and CEO, Rudich Advisory
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5. Sustainable Development
- G7 performance on development
- Sonja Dobson, senior researcher, G7 Research Group
- Securing the SDGs: Why the G7 must lead the way
- Interview with Achim Steiner, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
- Strengthening national development banks: Why wait?
- Edgardo Alvarez, secretary general, Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions
- The fight to feed millions: The G7 must act now
- Cindy McCain, executive director, World Food Programme
- G7 performance on health
- Joanna Davies, senior researcher, G7 Research Group
- We must tackle the current global health financing emergency now to save lives
- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general, World Health Organization
- Why the G7 must act now to address the digital health transformation
- Ilona Kickbusch, founding director, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
- Integral brain health: The unifying goal for health, productivity and well-being
- Vladimir Hachinski, University of Western Ontario, Guy Rouleau, Montreal Neurological Institute, and Danuta Wasserman, Karolinska Institutet
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Energy, Climate and Environmental Security
- G7 performance on energy
- Ella Kokotsis, director of accountability, G7 Research Group
- Reinforcing the renewables revolution
- Interview with Francesco La Camera, director general, IRENA
- A proven partner: Doubling down on nuclear energy ambitions is a smart move for the G7
- Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general, International Atomic Energy Agency
- Critical minerals supply in uncertain times
- Kathryn Sturman, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland
- Improving G7 performance on climate change
- Brittaney Warren, director of compliance and climate change research, G7 Research Group
- Red alert for climate, blueprint for action: A science-based call to the G7
- Celeste Saulo, secretary general, World Meteorological Organization
- Canada’s G7 summit in Kananaskis: Lessons learned for advancing climate action
- Catherine McKenna, chair, UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Entities, with Isabelle Gilmore, G7 Research Group
- Urgent action is needed to safeguard biodiversity, the foundation of the global economy
- Astrid Schomaker, executive secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
- The G7 should prioritise financing for disaster risk reduction
- Kamal Kishore, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Strengthening the G7 System
- The strategic role of ministerial meetings in fulfilling G7 commitments
- Jessica Rapson, senior researcher, G7 Research Group
- G7 compliance with Apulia’s commitments among evolving priorities
- Jacob Rudolph and Angus MacKellar, co-chairs, summit studies, G7 Research Group
- American leadership at Kananaskis
- Christopher Sands, director, Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
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Advocacies
- How energy is redefining Europe’s global role
- Interview with Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni
- Taking responsibility for health in a fragmenting world
- Axel Radlach Pries, president, World Health Summit
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