At this time, no final decision has been made regarding Biden s participation in the Dubai COP meet, and the White House has not provided any updates on his travel plans.
reassessment of capitalism. it s about different countries recognising their own responsibilities. if you look at china, the second biggest economy in the world, they have a green agenda. but what the uk has shown, we were the first country to actually come out with net zero or carbon budgets. what we actually are showing in the uk is to use the financial system, which directs capital and money, can play an important role. i m with you in your question about the need for action, but you don t throw the baby out with the bathwater, to use the old phrase here. but you do need to take radical action. but radical action doesn t mean that you. sorry, gerard, but to end, we talked about your optimism, even on this issue of whether we truly can continue to enjoy greater prosperity and avoid the worst of global warming and deliver sort of net zero by 2050, you think we can have it all? no, i m not saying you can have it all, but what i m saying is that your actions need to back up your rhetori
we were the first country to actually come out with net zero or carbon budgets. what we actually are showing in the uk is to use the financial system, which directs capital and money, can play an important role. i m with you in your question about the need for action, but you don t throw the baby out with the bathwater, to use the old phrase here. but you do need to take radical action. but radical action doesn t mean that you. sorry, gerard, but to end, we talked about your optimism, even on this issue of whether we truly can continue to enjoy greater prosperity and avoid the worst of global warming and deliver sort of net zero by 2050, you think we can have it all? no, i m not saying you can have it all, but what i m saying is that your actions need to back up your rhetoric. and what we saw in paris was a commitment at the cop meeting to take action. governments didn t follow through with their national recommendations in glasgow. some, like the uk, did,
know now that the new prime minister, liz truss, has asked the king not to come to the next meeting, is the government missing out on an opportunity to have someone of his presence, who is known to be passionate about the environment, that cop meeting? possibly, but i do think it is important that we remember that charles role has now shifted, as he is now the monarch, he has to toe the apolitical line, and he can t quite do the same things he did as prince of wales. so, because this is cop, it is the political leaders going, it may not be quite as appropriate as it once was for him to be there, to kind of rally that environmental message. maybe that is something william could take on, of course, nothing was mentioned about that, william is also a passionate interventionist, i am sure charles is disappointed that he can t go himself is something he has campaigned about for decades, but i