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Boris Johnson will announce on Friday the UK's commitment to a 68% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, above the 60% approved in October by the European Parliament and launching the challenge to the 195 countries that signed the Agreement from Paris five years ago.

"We want to take the lead with an ambitious and new goal for 2030, and be faster than any other economy in the world with our 10-point plan," said the

who has already pledged to ban the sale of New combustion cars already supplies all British households with wind power.

Johnson stressed that we are facing "a global effort" and anticipated that he will

, in advance of the COP26 in Glasgow, which had to be postponed for a year by the pandemic.

Before December 31, countries that have adhered to the Paris Agreement must submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the UN.

President-elect Joe Biden has announced his willingness to return to the climate change agreement one month after his inauguration, on January 20.

Zero emissions by 2050

Biden has indicated his willingness to sign the "zero emissions" pledge by 2050, while President Xi Jinping has already anticipated that China will reach that goal "by 2060."

Boris Johnson recalled how the UK was the first G7 country to subscribe to "net zero" (the point at which an amount of CO2 equivalent to that which is emitted) is absorbed at the middle of the century, a goal already supported by more from eighty countries.

The previous commitment of the British Government was 53% in reducing emissions in 2030. Despite the qualitative jump to 68%, environmental groups have expressed their partial disappointment in considering that the host country of COP26 could have reached 75 %.

Experts such as the economist Nicholas Stern, author of the first global report on the economic impact of climate change, estimates that the British Government should reach at least 70% and emphasizes how cutting emissions is increasingly affordable due to falling costs. of renewables.

"The 'premier' has finally understood that we are facing a growth opportunity and not a burden on the economy," Stern told

.

"But it will take large investments and a commitment to innovation."

As a counterpoint to Brexit, Johnson has promised to put his country at the forefront of the "green" industrial revolution, creating 250,000 jobs, investing the equivalent of € 13.5 billion, and the potential to attract 45 billion private investment. in the next decade.

The Cimate Action Tracker organization has estimated that with the new announced long-term commitments, the rise in temperatures from pre-industrial times would be 2.1 degrees, not far from the two-degree ceiling ("continuing efforts to limit it 1.5 degrees ") of the Paris Agreement.

In a compelling speech in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to action in the short term, not only in the face of the climate crisis but in the face of the loss of biodiversity or the alarming increase in new zoonotic diseases such as Covid19: "Humanity is at war with nature, and that is somewhat suicidal. Nature always strikes back, and it is doing so with more force and more fury."

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