Alok Sharma says shared goals must be steered to safety by ensuring countries deliver on their promises
- Cop26 kept world’s 1.5C limit in reach – now we will steer it over the line
The UK will continue to press governments around the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions urgently in the next year to limit global heating to 1.5C, after the UN climate talks that concluded last week, the president of the summit has pledged.
Alok Sharma, the cabinet minister who led the Cop26 talks, said the world had shown in Glasgow that countries could work together to establish a framework for climate action but the next year must focus on keeping the promises made there.
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