Alok Sharma (pictured) is furious with Boris Johnson for talking up the COP26 summit as a make or break moment for the planet, it was claimed today, amid Cabinet fears the event will be a ‘damp squib’.
The COP26 President is said to be ‘raging’ at the Prime Minister for ‘ramping up’ hopes of a major climate change breakthrough in Glasgow when world leaders meet at the end of the month.
Some ministers believe the Government’s messaging ahead of the summit has been too bullish and is ‘completely out of control’.
The claims came after the summit suffered a significant blow as Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed he is not attending the event.
China’s Xi Jinping is also expected to snub the UN summit, heightening fears that significant progress will not be made in the fight against climate change.
Both countries will send delegations to take part in negotiations but the presence of national leaders is seen as crucial to adding impetus to the process.
Mr. Johnson has repeatedly hailed COP26 as a major moment, saying in September that ‘this is the most important period I think now in the history of the planet – because COP simply must succeed.’
But The Sun reported that Mr. Sharma is angry at Mr. Johnson for boosting expectations.
One minister told the newspaper: ‘Nobody has pitched properly that this is not going to be some big hand of history moment where a new deal is done, so it’s going to feel like a damp squib.
‘Alok is raging. It’s got completely out of control.’
The aim of the summit is to persuade countries to agree to take action to restrict global warming to nothing more than 1.5 degrees.
But the minister said the message of ‘keep 1.5 alive‘ is ‘incomprehensible’ and many people simply do not know what it means.
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Look what happens when the idiots take over
Over the last few months I have come to the conclusion that BoJo is a BoZo.
In spades…………..
You wonder whether the ramping up by Johnson is so that when COP26 comes (inevitably) crashing down, he can rip up the agreements the UK has made since Paris, which have condemned us to energy poverty, since no one else can be bothered… “Well, I did try” !
Boris can get behind anything, but this time his enthusiasm will be his undoing. He’s facing a big hangover, post Glasgow .
These meetings are populated by a bunch of ignorant dufuses talking about things they don’t know. But it’s always the last chance for them to all do something to save the planet or something.