Rishi Sunak to urge world leaders to keep their commitments to tackle climate change
New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will use today’s speech at the UN climate conference in Egypt to urge world leaders to keep their commitments to tackle climate change.
Sunak, who took over as UK prime minister late last month, had initially said he would be too busy sorting out pressing economic issues at home to attend the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt , drawing criticism from political opponents and climate activists.
Now, like more than 100 leaders, he too will address the conference.
Sunak is expected to urge governments to stick to the commitments they made at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland a year ago, when his country, which hosted the summit, helped broker a wide-ranging climate deal, much of it which has not yet been implemented.
“The world converged on Glasgow in a last chance to create a plan to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees. The question today is: can we muster the collective will to deliver on those promises?” the British prime minister will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by his office in advance.
The chances seem slim. A UN report released in late October notes that governments’ commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course for an average temperature rise of 2.8 degrees Celsius this century, after the “painfully inadequate” progress that has been made.
Sunac will also meet his French and Italian counterparts on the sidelines of the UN climate conference.
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