The UK has pledged to put tackling climate change and natural disasters at the heart of its foreign policy and will appoint special envoys to work on both.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said climate change and natural disasters are the geopolitical challenges of our time, warning they are even more serious than terrorism.
Mr Lammy has insisted that tackling climate change is essential to ensuring the UK's security and prosperity.
Mr Lammy also vowed to “fire the starting gun” for the ruling Labour Party’s commitment to building a global clean energy alliance, in which the UK would help share knowledge and technology to help more countries reduce carbon emissions and boost innovation.
Accordingly, this alliance aims to help other countries eliminate fossil fuels and put renewable energy at the core of their electricity systems by accelerating the supply of critical minerals, expanding the grid and storing electricity.
London will also push for ambitious commitments on climate finance and emissions reductions at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan in November.
The UK government will appoint a special envoy for nature and reinstate the special envoy for climate change, a role abolished by former Chancellor Rishi Sunak last year.
Labour's green transformation agenda includes the creation of state-owned corporation GB Energy to invest in clean energy, in contrast to the policy of the previous Conservative government, which aimed to roll back key environmental targets.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the UK will become the first major economy to decarbonise its electricity system by 2030, meaning the country must rapidly build wind and solar power plants and related infrastructure.
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