Boris Johnson praises PM Imran Khan’s 10 Billion trees project at UN forum

NEW YORK: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK)Borish Johnson has praised PM Imran Khan government for planting 10 Billion trees project during his speech at the United Nation General Assembly forum.
Boris has called on World leaders to tackle the climate change issue, while highlighting the efforts of the PM Imran Khan government for planting trees, adding more Johson told the forum that humanity has to “grow up” and to tackle the climate change issue.
During his speech “I invite everybody to follow the example of Imran Khan of Pakistan who has pledged to plant 10 billion trees,” he said.
The billion tree project has been acknowledged worldwide as a much-needed step towards minimising environmental losses.
In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Johnson said it’s now or never if the world is to meet its goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Prime Minister Johnson is due to host a major United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in six weeks’ time. He is using his trip to UN Headquarters in New York to press governments for tougher emissions-cutting targets and more money to help poor countries clean up their economies.
Amid the metaphors, the British leader made a series of calls for action to the UN member states, including:
_to restrain the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees;
_to pledge collectively to achieve carbon neutrality – net zero – by the middle of the century;
_all countries to step up and commit to very substantial carbon reductions by 2030, in particular with coal, cars, cash and trees;
_the developing world to end the use of coal power by 2040 and the developed world to do so by 2030;
_China to phase out the domestic use of coal;
_only zero-emission vehicles to be on sale across the world by 2040;
_every country to cut carbon by 68%;
_to halt and reverse the loss of trees and biodiversity by 2030;
_all nations to follow the example of Prime Minister Imran Khan to _plant 10 billion trees, and,
governments to work with financial institutions – the IMF and the -_World Bank – to leverage trillions of dollars in the private sector.
_Johnson concluded his speech with a plea for world leaders to do right by the next generations.
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