Boris Announces New Emissions Target.

Boris Johnson has announced a “world-leading” new legal target to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by nearly four-fifths by 2035.

The Prime Minister described the target to reduce emissions by 78{289c6623c76f182aff326697731fc4c4489ff817d05f7f58b6ebdec0a23af6a0} on 1990 levels by 2035, which will be set in law under the Government’s sixth carbon budget, as the most ambitious in the world.

It has been announced on the eve of a major US summit on Thursday where President Joe Biden is expected to set out a new US target for reducing emissions.

And it comes as the UK Government seeks to show climate leadership ahead of the United Nations Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November, aimed at driving stronger action by countries to address the crisis.