By Ajibola Adedoye
Action on climate is action on our security, our substance and our future.
David Lammy, UK’s Foreign Secretary, made this statement in his first major foreign policy speech on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.
During the speech, Lammy also pledged to make a Global Clean Power Alliance – a new coalition committed to accelerating the clean energy transition encyclopedically, as part of the cross-government charge to make Britain a clean energy superpower.
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Alongside publicizing plans to appoint new Special Representatives for Climate Change and for Nature, the Foreign Secretary also promised to unleash further climate finance and reverse the decline in global biodiversity – addressing systemic inequalities and injustice encyclopedically.
He said: “This Government has set a landmark goal–to be the first major economy to deliver clean power by 2030. We will work that ambition to make an Alliance committed to accelerating the clean energy transition. And today we are firing the starting gun on forming this new coalition. While some countries are moving ahead in this transition, others are being left behind.
“We need to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy across the globe in the way that this Government is doing at home.”
The Alliance will concentrate on driving global investment and finance to close the clean power gap by helping further countries to leapfrog fossil energies and transition to power systems with renewables at their core. It will work to speed up the force of critical minerals and fit motivation into expanding energy grids and storehouse. This will help to increase clean energy invention across the globe- participating knowledge and technology to make Net Zero Power a reality, far and wide.
Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, also said “This extremity is not some discrete policy area, disassociated from geopolitics, conflict and instability. The trouble may not feel as critical as a terrorist or an imperialist ruler. But it’s more abecedarian. It’s systemic, pervasive and accelerating towards us. Today, I am committing to you that while I am Foreign Secretary, action on the climate and nature extremity will be central to all the Foreign Office does. This is critical given the scale of the trouble, but also the scale of the occasion.”
Lammy also committed to united Government team that will use the politic and development weight of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to push for ambitious pledges on finance and reduced emigrations at COP29.
This diplomatic weight will be corroborated by new UK Special Representatives for Climate Change and for Nature. These representatives will report to the Foreign Secretary, together with Ed Miliband and Steve Reed independently, and will help to galvanise British engagement with partners across the world, forge genuine collaborations on climate change and mark a diplomatic drive to increase global ambition concentrated on clean power, climate finance, adaption and adaptability and biodiversity.
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