Sir Keir Starmer has launched with Brazil the Global Clean Power Alliance at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. 12 countries have signed up to join the initiative, which the UK prime minister says, "is about harnessing the political leadership needed to unlock investment on a huge scale, so that no developing country is left behind". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We've identified a gap in international leadership, the need for a political coalition
00:07that unites North and South, developed and developing, to speed up the global drive for
00:13clean power.
00:15This isn't about inventing new targets, it's about results.
00:21We know what we have to do to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.
00:27We have to transform global energy production and consumption, and we're doing that in the
00:33United Kingdom.
00:34We closed the UK's final coal power plant at the end of September, becoming the first
00:40G7 economy to phase out coal power, and we're on a mission to achieve clean power by 2030.
00:49Today is about making the transition happen globally.
00:53We're united around a clear and critical goal to help triple renewable energy capacity
01:00and double energy efficiency by 2030.
01:04So I'm pleased to launch the Global Clean Power Alliance, alongside Brazil, our partner
01:11in launching this first mission.
01:14This is about harnessing the political leadership needed to unlock investment on a huge scale,
01:21so that no developing country is left behind, because emissions anywhere matter for climate
01:28change everywhere.