Nine women took part in
the London demonstration, wearing patches reading better broken windows than broken promises in a reference to the Suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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Boris Johnson threw himself wholeheartedly behind Joe Biden today as the US president tore up the Trump administration s antipathy towards tackling climate change.
Mr Biden used a climate conference attended by 40 world leaders including Vladimir Putin to pledge to cut US greenhouse gas emissions in half compared to 2005 output within the next decade, a move the Prime Minister hailed as game-changing .
The US reduction - estimated to be around a 41-44 per cent cut on 1990 levels - is part of a national climate plan, which it is submitting as part of its return to the Paris climate accord, the world s first comprehensive climate treaty which Donald Trump quit when he was president.
Europe had its warmest year on record in 2020, according to worrying findings from the European Union s climate change monitor.
Data from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) provides another stark warning for humanity regarding climate change, as temperatures have shot up in the last half-decade.
2020 temperatures in Europe were more than 2.8°F (1.6°C) above the average for between 1981 and 2010, C3S said on Thursday.
They were also at least 0.72°F (0.4°C) warmer than the next five warmest years on record, which all occurred during the last decade – 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
Winter and autumn 2020 were the highest on record for Europe, C3S also revealed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was left awkwardly on screen after French President Emmanuel Macron was cut off because of a technical glitch at the Climate Summit Thursday.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is pushing for a debate with AOC on the Green New Deal
The Georgia Republican posted a picture to Twitter Wednesday where she is shown confronting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the House floor Glad I ran into you today @AOC to plan our debate about the Green New Deal After I finish reading all 14 pages, like we agreed, I ll schedule time for our debate, she wrote, indicating she has not yet read the full extent of the proposal
Ocasio-Cortez relaunched the 2019 climate change plan on Tuesday
She told reporters on Capitol Hill climate change was a result of racial policy