While COP26, decisive step to strengthen the action against warming, opens on October 31 in Glasgow, the British Prime Minister is accused of preparing it with too much nonchalance.
mid-October, Boris Johnson spent a few days of vacation, with a woman and child, in a luxury villa lent by a conservative friend in Marbella, in southern Spain. The tabloids have been relevant to a stolen picture, where the British Prime Minister is distinguished on a terrace, in the shade, hand brush against an easel. Does the leader have nothing better, less than three weeks of the opening of COP26 in Glasgow, of which his government is the host, to paint the canvases?, Questioned the media and the Labor opposition.
The Prime Minister “is often on the phone, he still discussed with the Indian President Modi [on October 11, since Marbella], attempted to convince Allegra Stratton, Mr. Johnson’s Cop26 spokesman. A conference organized by Think Tank Institute for Government, at the same time. “It explains to other leaders how to decarner our savings can be achieved by highlighting the example of the United Kingdom. The role of the government at this summit is to animate the negotiations and to encourage the climate ambitions of other countries”, added the former journalist. The apparent nonchalance with which Boris Johnson addresses the Glasgow summit, considered one of the last chances to keep the goal of a limited climate warming at 1.5 ° C, arouses the criticism.
His government recently seemed much busier to reopen the Brexit front with Brussels (he wants to renegotiate the North Irish protocol) than to convince the leaders of the planet to increase their targets to reduce CO emissions. 2 or their financial contribution to the transition in developing countries. Mr. Johnson has found an effective slogan (“Coal, Cars, Cash and Trees”) that he repeats in loop – he explains that the exit of coal must be accelerated, pass faster to electric vehicles, give more than money for the transition and plant millions of trees. But the media have especially retained his joke on Kermit the frog, during his speech at the United Nations at the end of September (“Kermit was wrong to say it’s hard to be green, it’s easy to be green!”) .
They preferred to insist on the proclimate commitments of the royal family, including the launch by Prince William of Earthshot Prize, a price rewarding solutions to fight against warming. Or on the remarks of Queen Elizabeth II, captured on the fly by a television camera, on the sidelines of a reception in the Welsh Parliament, on October 14th: “It’s really irritating,” confided the sovereign to Welsh leaders, All these leaders who “speak rather than they do”.
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