Climate: the world "largely outside the nails", criticizes the British employers - France 24

London (AFP)

The Confederation of British Industries (CBI), which represents the employers, believes that the world is "largely off the nail" in the climate transition after the end of the G7 meeting in the United Kingdom this weekend.

It urges the British government, host in November of the international environmental conference COP26 in Glasgow, to speed up concrete reforms, particularly in buildings and transport.

The organization says that within the next five months Downing Street is to establish "a thermal and building strategy for green buildings" with specific indications on how "it will financially support homeowners to make their homes energy efficient. ".

Most home heaters run on gas in the UK.

The CBI also recommends “unlocking investments in green technologies” and announcing by COP26 the “timetable for the next round of operating licenses for offshore wind”.

Finally, the organization calls to "give priority to the decarbonization of transport" by publishing a "new plan for electric vehicles by the end of the year and by committing to open 7 new large factories for production. of batteries ".

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Confederation Director General Tony Danker must insist that "not everyone has the right to fail. The climate crisis is getting worse and we are largely off track," commented received in advance of his speech at the CBI "Road to Zero" conference on Monday.

The UK is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and wants to reduce its CO2 emissions by 78% by 2035.

G7 leaders voted this weekend to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, some even more.

They want to turn their backs on coal-fired power stations, the most polluting fossil fuel, unless environmental compensation measures are in place, such as CO2 capture.

Public aid will be stopped this year.

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The environmental organization Greenpeace, however, deplored the lack of a promise to "stop all new fossil fuel projects - which must be implemented this year to limit the dangerous rise in global temperature".

Meanwhile, the British Treasury on Monday released a series of measures to protect biodiversity, promising "to leave the environment in better condition than we found it".

He said he had announced an action plan for trees in England, and set up a "fund to protect nature against climate impact" which will generate private funding.

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