New Delhi, June 13 -- The 52nd summit of the Group of Seven opens here on Monday for three days, with climate change ranked eighth on the French presidency's agenda. The list above it is the substance of the moment: the Israel-Iran war that has closed the Strait of Hormuz and produced a global energy-price shock, the United States tariff disputes, the Russia-Ukraine war, the European defence and supply-chain crisis triggered by the American troop withdrawal, the data-centre energy demand from artificial intelligence, the critical-minerals competition with China, and the regulation of AI itself. Climate is the item the room will reach if it has time.

a doubling of bilateral climate-finance flows to vulnerable economies, a coordinated G7 p...