First day of the three-day annual summit of the leaders of Group of Seven (G7) is under way in Germany on Sunday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden opened the summit with a bilateral meeting. 

The G7 leaders are also due to tackle climate change, with Germany pressing for the creation of a climate club to set practical targets for reducing emissions for the participating countries.

EU Council President Charles Michel, during a press conference at the summit, said the EU welcomes the climate club proposal from Germany, stressing the need to diversify energy sources and speed up renewable energy infrastructure.

He also highlighted the importance of tackling the food security partly by getting Ukrainian food products to the issue of global market and by supporting the EU's partners that have been most hit by food shortages.

Four G7 countries including UK, US, Japan and Canada announced ban on Russian gold imports.