"If Glasgow Fails, Whole Thing Fails": Boris Johnson On Climate Talks
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"If Glasgow fails, then the whole thing fails," Boris Johnson told a news conference in Rome, after a meeting of G20 leaders.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday urged world leaders attending the UN climate change conference in Glasgow to commit to cutting carbon emissions, warning efforts to halt runaway global warming will fail if they do not.
"If Glasgow fails, then the whole thing fails," he told a news conference after a meeting of G20 leaders in Rome, where they agreed a target to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
COP26 president Alok Sharma opened the two-week summit in Scotland's biggest city earlier on Sunday, saying the talks were the "last, best hope" to keep that target alive.
Johnson echoed that ultimatum, even after the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, which saw countries agree to cap global warming to "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels, and 1.5C if possible.
