Israel announces plan to slash carbon emissions by 2050

Jerusalem (AFP) July 23, 2021

Israel will seek to drastically reduce its carbon emissions by 2050 to help combat the global climate crisis, the foreign ministry announced in a statement Friday. The "revolutionary and historic decision" agreed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and several cabinet members will be put to a vote before Israel's parliament on Sunday, it said. "The Israeli government set to approve an unpr