Faced with the climate emergency, the United Kingdom is shifting into high gear and will now use MI6 to verify that countries are meeting their environmental commitments.
The British secret services have indeed revealed Sunday to have embarked on "green espionage" of the biggest polluters in the world.
MI6 is embarking on green espionage.
The British secret services will indeed verify that the countries, in particular the "biggest polluters in the world", are indeed respecting their commitments in terms of the environment.
An announcement made on Times Radio by Richard Moore, the first MI6 chief to speak so in a broadcast interview.
"In the area of climate change where everyone must get involved and play fair, we must verify that this is the case," he said.
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Because the boss of the British secret services is categorical, the environment is a priority on the foreign policy agenda for the United Kingdom and the planet.
In the sights of British spies, we find China in particular, which according to Richard Moore is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
“When people make commitments on climate change, maybe it's up to us to make sure that what they're actually doing is what they've signed on,” added one who is known as agent "C".
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Regarding the future methods used by the secret services, the head of MI6 has also remained fairly discreet.
Are agents going to hide in the fields to measure factory emissions?
Richard Moore kicked in touch.
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But this interview does not happen by chance.
From November 1 to 12, the United Kingdom will host the COP 26 on climate in Glasgow.
And ahead of this summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, anxious to "raise the level", announced on Tuesday that he had set himself very ambitious CO2 reduction targets.