"Starting shot" on combating climate change

Britain has pledged to put tackling climate change and natural crises at the heart of its foreign policy and will appoint special envoys for the two areas.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said climate change and natural disasters are the geopolitical challenge of our time, warning they are even more serious than terrorism.

Mr Lammy has insisted that tackling climate change is essential to ensuring the UK's security and prosperity.

Mr Lammy also announced he would “fire the starting gun” for the ruling Labour Party’s commitment to building a global clean energy alliance, in which the UK would support the sharing of knowledge and technology to help more countries reduce carbon emissions and promote innovation.

Accordingly, this alliance aims to help other countries eliminate fossil fuels and put renewable energy at the core of their electricity systems by accelerating the supply of important minerals, expanding the grid and storing electricity.

London will also push for ambitious commitments on climate finance and emissions reductions at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan in November.

The UK government will appoint a special envoy for nature and reinstate the special envoy for climate change, a post abolished by former Chancellor Rishi Sunak last year.

Labour's green transformation agenda includes the creation of a state-owned corporation GB Energy to invest in clean energy, in contrast to the policy of the previous Conservative government, which aimed to roll back key environmental targets.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said Britain will become the first major economy to decarbonise its electricity system by 2030, meaning the country must rapidly build wind and solar power plants and related infrastructure.

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/phat-sung-lenh-ve-chong-bien-doi-khi-hau-post759650.html