Boris Johnson Told Lack of Climate Action Puts COP26 in Jeopardy
- U.K. climate change strategies fall short, watchdog says
- U.K. hosts United Nations talks in Glasgow later this year
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson risks failure when he hosts key climate change talks this year, unless he delivers on promises to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, an independent government watchdog said.
Two years after the U.K. government enshrined in law a target to reach net zero emissions by 2050, strategies covering everything from transport to home heating have been scrapped, delayed, or fell short when they were published, the Climate Change Committee said Thursday.