Rishi Sunak promotes worldwide clean growth

• The UN’s climate change chief will visit India later this week.
• They will discuss the impact of climate change on the world economy.
• Mr. Sunak is making his overseas debut in Egypt.

Rishi Sunak will address world leaders at COP27 that climate change may become “a worldwide mission for new jobs and clean growth.”

The prime minister will also stress the importance of COP26 obligations.

The UN’s climate change chief said limiting global warming is “still within reach”.

Mr. Sunak is making his overseas debut in Egypt after becoming UK PM last month.

He arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh Sunday night to attend the UN conference with US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron.

Mr. Sunak will announce almost £200m for forest protection and green technologies in developing nations.

Opposition MPs and campaigners forced him to attend COP27 earlier this week. He declined the invitation since he was busy writing the November budget.

In his opening statement on Monday, Mr. Sunak will push global leaders to “go further and quicker” to restrict global warming to 1.5C over pre-industrial levels to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

He will claim Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has “confirmed” the need to decrease fossil fuel dependence but can stimulate green businesses.

“In Glasgow, the world had one last chance to reduce global warming to 1.5C. Can we fulfil those promises? “said.

“We can fight climate change and create new jobs and clean growth by keeping our Glasgow promises. We can leave our children a greener earth and a better future.”

At the summit, Mr. Sunak will likely discuss migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats with French President Macron. The prime minister calls crossing reduction a “important priority”.

Downing Street said Mr. Sunak will unveil £65.5m for the clean energy innovation facility, which supports researchers and scientists in poor nations working on renewable technology like biomass-powered refrigeration in India and lithium-ion batteries in Nigeria.

The UK will invest £90m in Congo Basin rainforest protection and £65m in indigenous and local communities.

Ed Miliband of Labor said Mr. Sunak “had to be dragged kicking and screaming” to the meeting and “implausible for him to take the mantle of climate leadership”.

The shadow climate change secretary said the government should stop issuing North Sea development licenses and support onshore wind.

The UN warned that attaining the 1.5C warming target would require “exceptional effort” at COP27.

“The science tells us that is still within reach,” said Simon Stiell, the UN’s new climate chief. “We cannot relieve pressure.”

Mr. Stiell told BBC World Service’s Newshour that 29 states have increased their climate promises since last year, which was “not enough”.

The UN’s weather and climate agency reported that sea levels had quadrupled since 1993.

At COP27, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the report a “chronicle of climate calamity” and asked states to respond to the planet’s “distress signal” with “ambitious, real climate action”.

According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global temperatures have climbed 1.1C and are moving toward 1.5C. (IPCC).

The IPCC believes that half the world’s population might face life-threatening heat and humidity if temperatures rise 1.7 to 1.8C above 1850s levels.

The UN warns that rich countries are not contributing enough funding to assist developing nations adapt to climate change and develop cleanly.

After poor nations campaigned to include “loss and damage” on the agenda, Mr. Stiell called the conference a “hopeful start”.

Wealthy nations pay climate change-affected nations compensation.

David Panuelo, President of the Federated States of Micronesia, told the BBC that larger nations must “come good with their nationally-determined payments”.

“Many countries need to come forward with… promises to help face this crisis that global societies are confronting now,” Mr. Panuelo added, naming China, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil.

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