UK's Johnson urges China's Xi to move faster on climate goals

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to do more to reduce his country's reliance on coal and to bring forward its target date for peak CO2 emissions to try to better tackle climate change.

China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is crucial to the success of COP26, but many scientists and climate experts fear that its current climate plans are too weak and Johnson is keen to persuade Beijing to go further...