Cop26 risks being a ‘bunch of meaningless promises’, Tory minister says
“What people will judge us on, as they will also judge other governments on, is delivery," cabinet minister Alok Sharma has said.
“What people will judge us on, as they will also judge other governments on, is delivery," cabinet minister Alok Sharma has said.
Prime minister Boris Johnson's handling of the UK's own affairs may have also weakened Britain's leadership by example.
Campaigners have expressed their outrage after being kept out of Cop26 climate talks, despite the Tory pledge that the international summit would be “the most inclusive ever” this year.
It comes as Alok Sharma says securing a climate deal in Glasgow will be "really tough" and could be harder “on lots of levels” than signing the Paris Agreement of 2015.
The planet is getting hotter and the Tories can't decide how much money they have allocated to combat it. Great!
One writer said on Twitter that the company “robbed humanity of a generation’s worth of time to reverse climate change”.
"It’s one rule for them and another rule for us, whether it’s Dominic Cummings, whether it’s Matt Hancock, whether it’s Alok Sharma."
"Human behaviour is alarmingly accelerating global warming," he said, whilst defending allegations that he flew to 30 countries in seven months.
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