accelerated action on implementing the Paris agreement, increasing each industrialized nations' carbon cutting goals, promoting investments in "low carbon, climate-resilient development," and supporting vulnerable nations who need "financial and technical support" to implement their climate targets.

"The momentum is already there," says Greenpeace. "Three G7 countries—the UK, France, and Canada—announced last year dates to phase out coal, while Italy is considering a phase-out by 2025 or 2030. Germany, too, is heading in that direction, given the long-term climate plan it released last year."

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"But," the group adds, Trump "is trying to head the wrong way, rolling back climate action at home and threatening to leave the Paris agreement. The G7 must stay firm and hold him toaccount."

To which Morgan added, "Our answer to Trump's 'America first' has to be 'Planet Earth First.'"

Meanwhile, on the ground, activists are determined to make climate a central focus of the talks. From the Oxfam International 'Big Heads' and a dramatic Greenpeace kayak action and installation on Friday to a mass protest in the streets on Saturday, campaigners are demanding the leaders put "Planet Earth First."

Organizers expect some 3,500 to take part in Saturday's march and rally. According toReuters, the hilltop town of Taormina where the summit is being held is "off limits to most for security reasons, so the neighboring Giardini Naxos has been selected for the 'No G7' march."

"Today with Trump as president there is extreme uncertainty among immigrants without the proper documents who constantly fear deportation,"