The UK’s goal of tackling the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 is “too far away”, the prime minister’s climate change spokesperson has said. Allegra Stratton, Boris Johnson’s former press secretary, said the “science is clear” that the UK must change its carbon emission output “right now”. Its goal is for net-zero emissions by 2050. MPs voted into law the nearer-term goal to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 and the government has said we must also reduce carbon emissions by at least 68% by 2030. “Net zero by 2050 is the ultimate goal, but the Paris agreement signed by all countries in 2015 requires nations to come to Cop26 with targets to bring down their emissions this decade.

Source: The Guardian August 01, 2021 18:22 UTC