The Latest: Target for emissions-free cars set in Glasgow

GLASGOW – The Latest connected the COP26 climate talks successful Glasgow:

GLASGOW, Scotland — A radical of nations and companies has announced plans to marque the power to emissions-free cars by 2040 and by nary aboriginal than 2035 successful starring car markets.

The announcement was made Wednesday connected the sidelines of the U.N. clime league successful Glasgow. It was backed by countries including Canada, Chile, Denmark, India, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Ford, General Motors, Mercedes Benz and Volvo, arsenic good arsenic respective states and cities successful the United States and elsewhere, signed the plan. Some companies, specified arsenic Volvo, already person adjacent earlier targets to signifier retired combustion engines.

Separately, a fig of countries are pledging to signifier retired the usage of trucks and buses with interior combustion engines.

Companies progressive successful roadworthy haulage are signing up, including transportation elephantine DHL, truck-maker Scania and Dutch brewer Heineken.

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LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is heading backmost to COP26 to property negotiators from astir the satellite to “turn promises into action” successful the summit’s closing days.

Johnson attended a satellite leaders’ acme that kicked disconnected the United Nations clime league successful Glasgow past week, and volition instrumentality to the Scottish metropolis Wednesday.

So acold the league has produced headline-grabbing announcements successful areas including ending ember power, backing greenish exertion and reversing deforestation. But the astir 200 nations attending stay acold from sealing a woody that could bounds planetary warming to the internationally agreed extremity of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) supra pre-industrial levels.

Johnson’s bureau says issues inactive being hammered retired see “a communal clip framework for nationalist commitments connected emissions reductions and agreed methodology for countries to study connected their clime action” -- mechanisms that tin beryllium utilized to clasp countries to their commitments.

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There is besides an unkept committedness from affluent nations to springiness much wealth to the countries astir susceptible to clime alteration -- often processing nations that person done slightest to origin it.

Johnson, on with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, volition conscionable with authorities officials, negotiators and civil-society groups successful an effort to inject momentum into the talks.

Johnson said clime alteration “is bigger than immoderate 1 state and it is clip for nations to enactment speech differences and travel unneurotic for our satellite and our people. We request to propulsion retired each the stops if we’re going to support 1.5C wrong our grasp.”

COP26 is owed to extremity Friday, though the talks could agelong connected longer.

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