{"id":1669257,"date":"2022-10-03T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669257"},"modified":"2022-10-03T06:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:07:04","slug":"khan-urges-green-investment-snipes-at-truss-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khan-urges-green-investment-snipes-at-truss-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan urges green investment, snipes at Truss policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkhan-urges-green-investment-snipes-at-truss-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Gloria Dickie<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     The mayor of London urged business leaders on Monday to invest in climate solutions, saying the British capital would need another 75 billion pounds ($84.05 billion) in investment to meet its climate goals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Noting infrastructure crippled by extreme heat to homes damaged in wildfires, Sadiq Khan warned that \u201cno one will be able to claim with any credibility that we were not given fair warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking aim at the new conservative government of Prime Minister Liz Truss, the mayor said that \u201cwhile the doors of Whitehall might be closing to climate action, the doors of City Hall will remain wide open for as long as I\u2019m in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Truss has reversed a ban on drilling for natural gas and announced fiscal plans to cut the highest rate of income tax \u2013 a policy the government reversed on Monday \u2013 as part of a package of financial measures that last month sent sterling and British government bonds into meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said during his opening address at the Reuters IMPACT climate conference in central London that his city was working to reach net-zero emissions by 2030 to \u201cavoid a catastrophic climate crisis.\u201d The city\u2019s activities include investing in green jobs and infrastructure, decarbonising buildings, opening more cycling lanes to discourage driving and promoting electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>But London would need more help, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn excess of 75 billion pounds of investment is needed,\u201d Khan said. \u201cWe simply cannot deliver this without the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view a livestream of Reuters Impact, please click here: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/reuters-impact\/reuters-impact-global-virtual-broadcast-2022-09-29\/<\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.8923 pounds)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Gloria Dickie; Editing by Katy Daigle and Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/khan-urges-green-investment\/attachment\/file-photo-mayor-of-london-sadiq-khan-poses-for-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920F4-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI920F4-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 The mayor of London urged business leaders on Monday to invest in climate solutions, saying the British capital would need another 75 billion pounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}