From vaccines to climate, G7 hopes to show the West is not over yet

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (L) meets with President of the Eurogroup, Paschal Donohoe on the second day of the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting, at Lancaster House in London

* First trip abroad as president for Biden * Vaccinate the world by end of 2022, says host Johnson * First G7 for Draghi and Suga; last for Merkel The Group of Seven rich democracies will try to show the world at a summit this week that the West can still act in concert to tackle major crises by donating hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries and pledging to slow climate change. US President Joe Biden, on his first foreign trip since winning power, will try to use the summit in the English seaside village of Carbis Bay to burnish his multilateral credentials after the tumult of Donald Trump's presidency. Whether on Covid-19 or climate change, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States want to illustrate that the West can compete with the power of China and the assertiveness of Russia.