British Prime Minister Boris Johnson presented Sonn Plan on Tuesday, hoping to attract foreign investment, without excluding China.
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At ten days of the opening of the COP26, of which he is the host, the Johnson government finally made public, Tuesday, October 19, its strategy to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. It was a year. The industry and NGOs were waiting for this detailed roadmap, since the British Prime Minister had published in November 2020 a “ten-point plan” intended to hold the target of 2050 missing singularly details.
Some 620 million pounds sterling (734 million euros) will go to premiums for the purchase of electric cars and the extension of the recharge terminal network in the country, London having already announced, in 2020, that The sale of new gasoline or diesel cars would be prohibited from 2030. A search fund for “zero carbon” technologies will be abundant 500 million additional pounds, 120 million will go to “nuclear research”, which should floor On the technologies of small modular reactors, and another 124 million reforestation, with the objective of replanting 30,000 hectares of wood per year and to restore 280,000 hectares of peat by 2050.
Finally, Downing Street has announced almost 4 billion pounds to increase the energy efficiency of buildings – rather bad in the country – and reduce their emissions, with a bonus of 5,000 pounds for the purchase of a boiler Electric – British homes are mainly equipped with gas boilers.
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The goal is to “secure 440,000 new jobs and generate 90 billion sterling pounds of investments by 2030”, while reducing the UK’s dependence on fossil energies and strengthening its energy security, Assured Boris Johnson. “Our way to reduce our contribution to global warming will be paved with well-paid jobs, billions of investments and flourishing green technologies,” added the leader, faithful to his voluntary and ultra-optimistic style, ensuring that his country was going “Show the example to the rest of the world” just a few days from the climate summit.
It is true that the United Kingdom was the first country to register in its law the target of a carbon neutrality by 2050 – it was in 2019, as part of the climate change Act, a text That the ex-Premier Theresa May had then adopted. It is still true that the Government Johnson has been very ambitious by reporting, at the beginning of the year, 78% its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 (compared to the level of 1990 emissions).
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