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Cop26 president Alok Sharma tests positive for coronavirus

Cop26 President Alok Sharma has tested positive for Covid, he has announced, hours after he sat on the frontbench next to Boris Johnson. Mr Sharma, who was due to travel abroad and therefore took a Covid test, discovered he had the virus on ...

02 Mar 2022 at 18:25

Cop26 President Alok Sharma to urge countries to act on Glasgow agreement

Alok Sharma will urge countries to deliver on the pledges made at Cop26 so they are not “just words on a page” in his first major speech since the summit. Addressing stakeholders, business leaders and reporters at Chatham House in central ...

24 Jan 2022 at 01:25

Sharma: countries must deliver on Cop26’s ‘fragile’ win with climate action

None of the pledges on climate action made at Cop26 will matter unless countries deliver on them, Alok Sharma has warned. Speaking at a Chatham House event in London on Monday, the Cop26 President said countries had come together, ...

24 Jan 2022 at 15:25

Alok Sharma hints he could quit if new PM is ‘weak’ on net zero agenda

The Cabinet minister who led last year’s landmark UN climate change summit in Glasgow has indicated he could resign if the next prime minister is not fully committed to the net zero agenda. Cop26 president Alok Sharma said that ...

17 Jul 2022 at 01:34

Extreme heat ‘wake-up call for everyone’ in UK, says Cop26 president Alok Sharma

Cop26 president Alok Sharma said the recent extreme heat had been “a real wake-up call for everyone in this country” about the impact of climate change. The Cabinet Office minister said climate change had to be dealt with and ...

20 Jul 2022 at 16:08

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ScottishPower to hire 1,000 staff amid renewables boom

Energy giant ScottishPower plans to recruit at least 1,000 new employees across the UK in the next year after winning a series of contracts to build wind turbines. The business said it needs more staff after taking on a ...

27 Jul 2022 at 17:05

Failure to deliver Cop26 pledges would amount to ‘monstrous self-harm’ – Sharma

Failure to honour promises made at Cop26 would be an “act of monstrous self-harm”, Alok Sharma is to warn world leaders six months after the climate conference. The Government minister is to urge countries to ...

15 May 2022 at 22:25

Sharma: Government must explain how oil and gas is in line with net zero

The Government must “explain and demonstrate” how new oil and gas exploration is in line with its climate commitments, Cop26 President Alok Sharma said. Mr Sharma was speaking to MPs representing a number of ...

25 Oct 2022 at 17:53

Rishi Sunak will not attend Cop27 summit

Rishi Sunak will not be attending Cop27 in Egypt next month, Downing Street has said. Mr Sunak’s predecessor Liz Truss had been planning to attend the UN climate summit in November, but the new Prime ...

27 Oct 2022 at 17:57

Labour demands Sunak blocks Johnson’s ‘conveyor belt of cronies’ to the Lords

Rishi Sunak is facing calls to block Boris Johnson’s “conveyor belt of cronies” after he proposed several Conservative MPs for peerages but told them to delay accepting them to prevent triggering ...

08 Nov 2022 at 17:22

Lords due for reform, says minister as Johnson asks new peers to defer take-up

A Cabinet minister has said he believes the House of Lords is due for reform, “not least” owing to its size, as details emerged of the MPs expected to be granted peerages in Boris Johnson’s ...

08 Nov 2022 at 13:52

1.5C target on ‘life support’ after Cop27, says Sharma

Alok Sharma has warned that hopes of limiting global warming to 1.5C is “on life support”, after negotiators secured a last-minute deal at Cop27 in Egypt. The UK Government representative ...

20 Nov 2022 at 13:25

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