ABSTRACT
Climate change, which first appeared on the summit agenda of the Group of Seven (G7) in its own right in 1985, disappeared the following year. The 1986 Tokyo Summit's references to pollution, natural resource management, and environmental measurement were the closest it had come to addressing climate change. The 1987 G7 Venice Summit dealt with the issue as part of a stand-alone list of environmental issues that included environmental measurement, technological innovation, and stratospheric ozone depletion. The Venice Summit was a solid success for climate change, particularly in deliberation, decision making, and delivery. The 1987 Venice and 1988 Toronto summits revived the issue of climate change and returned it to the leader's agenda, after its absence from Tokyo in 1986. Thus, the G7 summit in 1987 and 1988 revived climate change for good, even as the United Nations (UN) system still struggled to discover and develop it for the first time.
