Boris Johnson doesn’t get climate change, says sacked COP 26 chair
by Rowena Mason and Fiona Harvey from Environment | The Guardian on (#4YW68)
Claire O'Neill says prime minister's promises of action are not close to being met
Boris Johnson has shown a "huge lack of leadership and engagement" over the UK's hosting of the COP 26 global climate change conference and admitted he does not understand the issue, according to Claire O'Neill, the sacked head of the summit.
The former minister, who was leading efforts to hold the COP gathering of world leaders in Glasgow in November, said the UK was "playing at Oxford United levels when we really need to be Liverpool" in terms of the effort to tackle the climate emergency.
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