UK's Johnson to urge climate action over 4-day trip to US

LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was travelling to the United States connected Sunday with elder Cabinet officials to impulse satellite leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to instrumentality urgent enactment connected clime alteration up of this fall's COP26 clime acme successful Scotland.

Johnson is acceptable to co-host a gathering connected clime alteration with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres connected Monday. The 2 volition sermon the request to assistance processing countries mitigate the interaction of clime change.

“This week, arsenic satellite leaders get successful New York for the biggest diplomatic lawsuit of the year, I volition beryllium pushing them to instrumentality factual enactment connected coal, climate, cars and trees truthful we tin marque a occurrence of COP26 and support our clime goals wrong reach,” Johnson said successful a statement.

Britain is hosting the COP26 clime acme from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12 successful Glasgow. The league is billed arsenic a pivotal infinitesimal to transportation governments, manufacture and investors to marque binding commitments connected reducing greenhouse state emissions, and to marque advancement connected reducing planetary warming to beneath 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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The British authorities says 100 satellite leaders person confirmed they volition be the conference. But Alok Sharma, the British authoritative serving arsenic the conference’s president, was not capable to corroborate Sunday whether Chinese President Xi Jinping has committed to attending the talks, oregon whether China would decidedly beryllium sending a delegation.

“On the contented of whether Xi Jinping is going to come, that is not yet confirmed. Normally these things travel a spot person to summits. I americium very, precise hopeful that we volition person a delegation from China,” Sharma told the BBC.

He told Sky News that Beijing, arsenic the world’s biggest greenhouse state emitter, would person to beryllium a cardinal portion of immoderate clime alteration agreement.

“They person said to maine they privation the COP26 to beryllium a success. The shot is successful their court. We privation them to travel guardant and marque it a occurrence unneurotic with the remainder of the world,” helium said.

Johnson, Sharma and newly-appointed British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss get successful New York connected Sunday for a four-day sojourn to the U.S.

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After the U.N. General Assembly, Johnson and Truss volition sojourn the White House for talks connected climate, the pandemic and planetary security. It volition beryllium Johnson’s archetypal sojourn to the White House since President Joe Biden took office.

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