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Increasing ambition in transition to clean energy and driving global investment in innovation
Excellencies, friends, it is a pleasure to join you today and thank you to the Government of Chile for hosting these ministerials.
Around the world ambition is increasing on climate change.
When the UK took on the COP26 Presidency, less than 30 percent of global GDP was covered by net zero targets.
That figure is now 70 percent.
And every G7 country now has a short term emissions reduction target, or NDC, that puts them on a path to net zero.
That of course is fantastic news.
Increasing ambition in the transition to clean energy and driving global investment in innovation
COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma s closing remarks at the launch of phase two of the Mission Innovation initiative. The launch brought more than 20 countries together to discuss an increase in ambition on clean energy transition and to drive global investment in innovation.
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2 June 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Excellencies, friends, it is a pleasure to join you today and thank you to the Government of Chile for hosting these ministerials.
Around the world ambition is increasing on climate change.
When the UK took on the COP26 Presidency, less than 30 percent of global GDP was covered by net zero targets.
Pick the planet
This year’s climate summit COP26 will be the world’s best chance of building a cleaner, greener future - COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma in a major speech at Whitelee Windfarm, near Glasgow.
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Good morning from Whitelee wind farm.
The epicentre of UK onshore wind.
Where the turbines behind me, some twice the height of the epic Glasgow Cathedral, are powering practically every home in the city.
Where, beneath Scottish skies, every revolution of these enormous blades generates enough electricity to charge 300 mobile phones.
And it is a snapshot, friends, of the future that is within our grasp, if we act now, and we act together, to protect our precious planet.