Article 71P3W We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

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Ed Miliband
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For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action - and the UK will keep leading the way

  • Ed Miliband is the secretary of state for energy security and net zero

Sweaty, maddening, sleepless. That's what it was like to be part of Cop30 in Brazil. And yet more than 190 countries came together in the rainforest of the Amazon and reaffirmed their faith in multilateralism, the Paris agreement and the need to redouble our efforts to keep global warming to 1.5C.

We went to Cop because working with other countries to tackle the climate crisis is the only way to protect our home and way of life. We know the UK produces just 1% of emissions, which is why, as the prime minister said in Belem, our government is all-in" on working with others to reduce the remaining 99%.

Ed Miliband is Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero

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