Statement by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the Conclusion of Negotiations at COP26
14 November, 2021
英国首相约翰逊联合国COP26气候变化大会闭幕致辞
2021年11月14日
Good evening, everybody.
大家晚上好。
After years of preparation and weeks of negotiation culminating in Glasgow, we’ve just come to the end of COP26. And of course, there’s still a long, long way to go before we can say we’ve dealt with climate change.
But the great news is, together, the world has made some important breakthroughs. We’ve kept alive the hope of restricting the growth in temperatures to 1.5 degrees, and we’ve made huge progress on coal, cars, cash and trees. For the first time ever, we’ve got over 190 countries all agreeing to sound the death knell for coal power.
And tonight, the developed world has finally acknowledged the need to help poor and vulnerable nations to deal with the loss and damage that’s already being caused by climate change. Everyone’s agreed that emissions targets need to keep getting tougher over the next decade, and that we need to keep going faster to reach those targets.
When the UK took over the presidency of COP, 30% of the world was signed up to net zero. Now we’ve got almost the entire world signed up, including all the biggest polluters. That means net-zero carbon emissions from all these countries. And getting on for 90% of the world’s forests, the oxygen-giving, carbon-fixing lungs of the planet are going to be protected by a new UK-led initiative.
We can’t kid ourselves, we haven’t beaten climate change, and it would be fatal to think that we have because there is so much more that still needs to be done. But what we do have now is a viable roadmap. And if leaders, countries, businesses, people around the world now deliver on what has been solemnly promised in Glasgow, then we can get there. And in years to come, historians will look back at COP26 as the moment humanity finally got real about climate change.