Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Boris Johnson: Countries responsible for emissions not doing enough” – below is their description.
Boris Johnson today warned world leaders their promises on tackling climate change are starting to ‘sound hollow’ as he read them the riot act ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Prime Minister said there are ‘no compelling excuses for our procrastination’ on reducing harmful emissions and action already taken amounts to ‘drops in a rapidly warming ocean’. Speaking at the G20 summit in Rome, he said that only 12 of the club’s members have committed to reaching a target of net zero emissions by 2050 or earlier. Dramatically raising the stakes, he said that if the gathering in Glasgow fails to secure a major breakthrough ‘then the whole thing fails’. Mr Johnson said world leaders must now flesh out the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, warning that failing to do so will leave ‘the world’s only viable mechanism for dealing with climate change… holed beneath the water line’. The premier escalated his rhetoric amid fears the summit in Glasgow, which formally got underway today, will be a flop after the G20 watered down its Net Zero ambition to ‘by or around mid-century’.
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