Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition
Rishi Sunak was warned that he faced exclusion from key discussions on the climate among world leaders at the UN before he decided to snub a global summit later this month.the first prime minister in a decade to avoid attending the annual UN general assembly
But Guterres has stipulated that only countries that can show they have ambitious policies to reduce their emissions in line with the goals of the Paris agreement would be allowed to participate in the climate ambition summit, the segment of the meeting of world leaders dedicated to the climate crisis.
The UK government has caused consternation in capitals around the world by seeming to waver on its commitments to net zero emissions and the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Sunak’s decision over the summerraised eyebrows among many countries and climate diplomats. Leaders of most of the world’s 20 biggest economies are also meeting in Delhi this weekend, as India holds the presidency of the G20 group. The climate crisis is expected to be discussed after a summer of record temperatures in many parts of the world, but no diplomatic breakthrough is expected there.
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