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The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his country is cutting carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 in what he claims is ‘the most ambitious target in the world’. He made this claim on the 20th of April 2021, days after it was agreed stronger pledges were necessary to tackle climate change. The claim turns out to be mostly true. Climate target A press release on the website of the UK Government confirms Johnson’s claim to set in law world’s most ambitious climate change target. The target entails cutting emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to the 1990 levels. The UK’s sixth Carbon Budget will incorporate its share of international aviation and shipping emissions for the first time. If the target set Johnson is to be achieved, it would bring the UK more than three-quarters on the way to net zero by 2050. Should the UK want to reach these ambitious goals, a fundamental restructuring in several different areas is needed. The UK will need to change the way it powers its homes, cars and factories. Changes will also need to be made in how the country feeds its people and in what it does to dispose of carbon dioxide. It is possible that Britain’s progress in cutting carbon emissions won’t last for much longer. The UK was able to reduce its carbon output by 38% since 1990, which is more than any other major country, but this was mainly possible because of the collapse of the British coal sector. From now on it is going to be much harder for the country to continue to decarbonize.British opposition parties and environmental campaigners are scared that Prime Minister Johnson didn’t realize this while setting his new target. They say that the new target lacks policies to actually deliver. Tom Burke, former government adviser, thinks the new approach to cut emissions, so far, has looked like a Boris blunderbuss". In a The Guardian article Ed Miliband
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