"Starting shot" on combating climate change

He pledged to place climate change response and nature crises at the heart of his foreign policy and will appoint special envoys for these two areas.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that climate change and the crisis in nature are the geopolitical challenges of our time, warning that this is an even more serious problem than terrorism.

Mr. Lammy asserted that addressing climate change is essential to ensuring the security and prosperity of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Lammy also declared he would "fire the opening shot" for the ruling Labour Party's commitment to building a global clean energy alliance, in which the UK would support the sharing of knowledge and technology to help more countries reduce carbon emissions and promote innovation.

Accordingly, this alliance aims to help other countries phase out fossil fuels and make renewable energy the core of their electricity systems by accelerating the supply of critical minerals, expanding power grids, and storing electricity.

London will also push for ambitious commitments on climate finance and emissions reduction at the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Azerbaijan this November.

The British government will appoint a special envoy for nature, while also reinstating the special envoy for climate change position, a role that was abolished last year by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The Labour Party's green transition agenda includes the creation of the state-owned GB Energy corporation to invest in clean energy, in contrast to the policies of the previous Conservative government, which focused on reducing key environmental targets.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer affirmed that the UK will become the first major economy to eliminate carbon from its electricity system by 2030, meaning the country must rapidly build wind and solar power plants as well as related infrastructure.

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