Referring to James Bond, the PM said: “He generally comes to the climax of his highly lucrative films strapped to a doomsday device, desperately trying to work out which coloured wire to pull to turn it off, while a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a detonation that will end human life as we know it. "But the children who will judge us are children not yet born, and their children." I will be a mere 94 years old, even if I’m not still in Downing Street. "The average age of this conclave of world leaders I’m afraid to say, is over 60. Rambling briefly off-topic he said: "“We all talk about what we’re going to do in 2050, in 2060. How can COP26 solve the crisis of climate change? Join the debate in the commentsīoris Johnson urged leaders to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2035 end coal-fired power stations by 2040 in poorer countries and 2030 in richer ones plant hundreds of millions of trees and "halt and reverse deforestation by 2030." UN Secretary General António Guterres told the opening ceremony there must be "enough of killing ourselves with carbon, enough of treating nature like a toilet. “We hope world leaders listen to Johnson’s warnings, but maybe he needs to listen to them himself." “Meanwhile, Johnson has left the door open to new oil and gas licences. Greenpeace UK's Rebecca Newsom said: "Today's announcement about UK climate finance is a complete distraction as it's not new money and it’s not even guaranteed. Targets to get Net Zero emissions by 2050 and $100bn a year of climate finances have been fudged and China, Russia and Brazil aren't turning up to the summit. Urging world leaders to “build a life boat for humanity” after G20 leaders missed key targets, he said the summit must be “the moment when humanity finally began to defuse that bomb”.īut he announced no new policies except £3bn of climate finance. Speaking alongside the UN Secretary General, Prince Charles and Sir David Attenborough, he said Scotland was “the very place where the doomsday machine began to tick” with the invention of the steam engine. The Prime Minister invoked the fictional Scottish spy in a glittering opening ceremony as he spoke to 120 world leaders in Glasgow.
Boris Johnson today opened COP26 with a desperate plea to humanity to “defuse the bomb” of climate change like James Bond.
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