Boris Johnson
I lost career to racism: Ex-cricketer Rafiq
Former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq fought back tears as he told British lawmakers on Tuesday he had lost his career to racism, detailing widespread discrimination within the English game in a ...
COP deal 'tinged with disappointment': UK PM
British prime minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed a global accord to speed up action against climate change as "truly historic" and "the beginning of the end for coal power"
Climate change
COP26 strikes hard-fought deal but UN says ‘not enough’
The deal called on all countries to accelerate their emissions cuts by submitting new national plans by 2022, three years earlier than agreed in Paris
COP26
PM attends bilateral meeting with Boris Johnson
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday held a bilateral meeting with her British counterpart Boris Johnson on the sidelines of COP26
'Digging our own graves': COP26 leaders told take climate action
World leaders were told to help "save humanity" on Monday at the COP26 climate summit and warned that failure was "immoral" and would sow bitterness for generations.
G20
World leaders to talk climate, economy, vaccines at G20
Climate change and the relaunch of the global economy will top the G20 agenda as leaders of the world's most advanced nations meet Saturday, the first in-person gathering since the pandemic
Putin will not attend COP 26 climate summit: Kremlin
Putin’s withdrawal comes with major question marks over the attendance of Chinese president Xi Jinping and India’s prime minister Narendra Modi
In UN climate push, UK PM disputes Kermit
Ahead of a critical climate conference in Glasgow, which kicks off on 31 October, Johnson told the UN General Assembly, "We have an awesome power to change things and to change things for the better, ...
UK PM Johnson calls on rich countries to meet $100 billion climate pledge
In messaged comments from his climate round-table speech on Monday, Italian prime minister Mario Draghi said the $100 billion pledge had to be fulfilled
Biden asks world leaders to cut methane in climate fight
Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a follow-up to an Earth Day meeting he hosted in April to unveil new US greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets ...
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