COP26 climate summit in Glasgow: Live updates
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is predicted to announce the UK will commit an extra £1 billion – or $1.368 billion USD – in help for local weather finance by 2025, if Britain’s financial system grows as forecast.
The Prime Minister is predicted to inform leaders assembly on the COP26 local weather convention in Glasgow on Monday that the world should transfer from aspiration to motion to restrict rising world temperatures, in keeping with a authorities assertion launched late Sunday forecasting his remarks.
“It’s one minute to midnight and we have to act now,” Johnson is predicted to say in his Monday handle on the World Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony.
He’ll urge world leaders to take concrete steps on phasing out coal, accelerating the transition to electrical autos, and halting deforestation, in addition to supporting growing nations on the frontline of the local weather disaster with local weather finance, the assertion stated.
The actions will make the largest distinction in decreasing emissions this decade on the world’s path to internet zero and maintaining alive the worldwide goal of limiting rising temperatures to 1.5 levels Celsius beneath the Paris Settlement, in keeping with the assertion.
“If we don’t get critical about local weather change at present, it is going to be too late for our kids to take action tomorrow,” Johnson is predicted to say.