World leaders have gathered in Glasgow to take part within the COP26 local weather summit – the United Nations conference on stopping the devastating results of local weather change.
The summit comes six years after greater than 190 nations signed the Paris Agreement to restrict rising world temperatures to beneath 2°C with a view to reaching 1.5°C.
The two-week occasion, from October 31 to November 12, will see leaders from greater than 190 nations, 1000’s of negotiators, researchers and residents come collectively to strengthen the worldwide response to the specter of local weather change.
Here are quotes from key gamers:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
“Humanity has long been turning the clock on climate change. It’s a minute to midnight on that doomsday and we need to act now.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks through the opening ceremony of the COP26 United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, November 1, 2021. (AP)
“But while COP26 will not be the end of climate change, it can be and it should mark the beginning of the end.”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
“If commitments fall short at the end of this COP, countries should rethink their national climate plans and policies – every five years (but) not every year and every moment.”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech through the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 on Monday, November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP)
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We have a dire choice: Either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: Enough.”
“Enough to make biodiversity brutal. Enough to kill ourselves with carbon. Enough to treat nature like a toilet. Enough to burn and drill and deepen our way.”
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We have a dire choice: Either we stop it – or it stops us. It’s time to say: Enough.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the inauguration of the World Leaders Summit #COP26.
speech: https://t.co/ExHlJ7d2EC pic.twitter.com/ccT7T2fijY
— United Nations Climate Change (@UNFCCC) November 1, 2021
“The science is clear. We know what to do. First we have to live up to the 1.5°C target. This requires greater ambition on mitigation and urgent concerted action to reduce global emissions by 45 percent by 2030.” Is.”
US President Joe Biden
“Glasgow should be the start of a decade of shared ambition and innovation to preserve our future.”
“We can do it – we just have to make a choice to do it.”
President Joe Biden speaks through the COP26 United Nations Climate Summit on Monday, November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (AP)
“America is not only back on the table, but leading by example”
“I shouldn’t apologize, but I do apologize for the fact that the United States, the last administration, pulled out of the Paris Agreement and pushed us a little behind in eight balls.”
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg, retweeting supporters’ attraction to signal an open letter accusing leaders of betrayal, wrote: “This is not an exercise. It is code red for earth. Millions of people will suffer because our planet is devastated – a terrible future that will be created, or avoided, by the decisions you make. You have the decision-making power.”
“Betrayal.
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— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 1, 2021
British naturalist David Attenborough
“Is it doomed to end like this?”
Sir David Attenborough delivers a speech on the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, November 1, 2021. (AP)
“After all, we’re the best drawback solvers ever to exist on Earth. If working individually, we’re highly effective sufficient to destabilize our planet. Certainly working collectively, we are able to put it aside. are highly effective sufficient to
“In my lifetime, I have seen a terrible decline. In you, you can and should see an amazing recovery.”
Samoan environmentalist Briana Frauen
“We aren’t the one victims of this disaster, we now have been resilient beacons of hope. The youth of Prashant have rallied behind the slogan ‘We aren’t drowning, combating’. This is our warrior cry to the world. We aren’t drowning, we’re combating. This is my message to the COP on behalf of Prithvi.
prince charles
“Quite literally this is a last chance salon. Now we must translate good words into even better works.”
Prince Charles on the COP26 summit.
“The recent IPCC report has given us a clear diagnosis of the scale of the problem. We know what we need to do.”
“I can solely urge you, as the choice makers of the world, to search out sensible methods to beat variations in order that we are able to all work collectively, to save lots of this treasured planet and put the way forward for our youth in danger. “
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley
“Our people are watching and our people are paying attention… What peace and prosperity can there be if one-third of the world lives in prosperity and two-thirds lives under the sea and faces catastrophic threats to our well-being? We do?”
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
“We are filling our end of the bargain at the COP. The fact that China is not something they can easily point to us.”
“They are a big country with a lot of resources and a lot of capabilities, and they are fully capable of fulfilling their responsibilities and it is up to them to do so.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
