British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also struggled to explain his decision not to wear a mask at all times while sitting next to 95-year-old environmentalist David Attenborough during the summit. COP26
Boris Johnson said he had been humbled to hear the stories of countries on the front lines of the climate crisis and hailed some of the early agreements announced so far at the COP26 summit in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
He also said his government was committing to reducing its reliance on coal, despite the prospect of a controversial new mine opening in northwest England. Asked about the controversy, Johnson stumbled before saying:"I've been wearing masks in confined spaces with people I don't normally talk to ... it's up to people to take a judgment whether they're at a reasonable distance from someone ... that's the approach we take."
Johnson was also asked about his 2013 claim that the previous British government had"put in a load of wind farms that failed to pull the skin off a rice pudding." He responded by saying that"everybody has the right" to change their mind and hailed the developments in technology were the driving force for his change of heart.
"What's changed now is the voters in our countries want change and want us to fix this thing. I believe this goes for all great Western democracies. But I think it also goes for populations around the world," Johnson said. He cited the example of Covid-19, saying that when populations"see something that they think is a natural disaster," they change their behaviors.
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