Climate Crisis Is Boris Johnson’s Chance to Woo Joe Biden
The U.K. is winning praise for persuading the world to act. The question is whether it can remain at the heart of the global coordination effort.
Johnson’s government pledged to be the vanguard of “green finance” and announced it will ban supermarkets from produce linked to illegal deforestation.
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Boris Johnson was given a friendly warning over the risks of Brexit by Joe Biden during a 25-minute phone-call on Tuesday afternoon. But there was at least one bright spot in that first conversation with the incoming American president: a shared goal to tackle climate change.
The British prime minister said that it was “extremely exciting” to discuss the global response to the environment. “As you know, the U.K. is leading the world in driving down emissions and tackling climate change,” he told Parliament the following day.