According to the British Prime Minister, the world is at “one minute to midnight”, having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, BBC reports.
Boris Johnson said leaders needed to move from “aspiration to action” to slow global warming. The Prime Minister also said that the goals of the conference would be persuading world leaders to commit to accelerating the transition away from petrol and diesel cars and to stop deforestation.
Johnson also invoked climate campaigner Greta Thunberg as he opened the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow with a warning that the world cannot continue to talk tough while doing nothing.
The Archbishop of Canterbury said climate change was “absolutely a moral issue”.
The COP26 summit immediately followed a G20 meeting in Rome, where 12 of the 20 leading countries committed to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Estimates suggested 400 private planes had flown into Glasgow, because of the conference.
