World leaders together with Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau engaged in a spot of dinner-time diplomacy final night time as they joined a whole lot for the largest gathering of Authorities representatives for the reason that beginning of the United Nations – forward of the final ‘full’ day of the COP26 summit in the present day.

The congregation of leaders appeared in excessive spirits as they put disagreements on maintain and capped off the primary day on the COP26 local weather convention with a lavish royal reception at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Artwork Gallery and Museum with Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate Middleton and the Duchess of Cornwall.

Throughout the night time the Prime Minister, who hosted the night on the just lately renovated gallery, instructed leaders the summit was ‘fairly a rare historic occasion’ and it was much more essential as a result of ‘we face nothing lower than a mortal menace to our planet and to our civilisation’.

He additionally hailed Prince Charles as ‘the person to defuse the bomb on the world’s second of hazard’ and described him as a ‘prophet with out honour’.

His feedback got here as world leaders put together for a day make-or-break day negotiations throughout what would be the ultimate day of the local weather change convention for a lot of of them – with leaders leaving delegates behind to barter on their behalf.

The lavish reception was opened by the Queen who urged world leaders to ‘earn a spot in historical past’ and ‘reply the decision of these future generations’ in an impassioned speech.

Mr Johnson’s feedback got here after President Biden apologised for his predecessor Donald Trump taking the USA out of the Paris Local weather Accord and pledged the U.S would up its monetary stake in combating local weather change, arguing the largest producers of it needs to be its greatest buyers in fixing it.

World leaders pose for a group photo during an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow

World leaders pose for a bunch photograph throughout a night reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow

Joe Biden speaks with Prince William as the pair join hundreds of world leaders for the climate change conference in Glasgow

Joe Biden speaks with Prince William because the pair be a part of a whole lot of world leaders for the local weather change convention in Glasgow

Boris Johnson, who hosted the event at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, hailed Prince Charles for his efforts in tackling climate change

Boris Johnson, who hosted the occasion on the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, hailed Prince Charles for his efforts in tackling local weather change

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during an evening reception for the attending heads of state and Government last night

Prime Minister Boris Johnson throughout a night reception for the attending heads of state and Authorities final night time

The Queen urged world leaders to 'earn a place in history' and 'to rise above the politics of the moment in her address to leaders at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

 The Queen urged world leaders to ‘earn a spot in historical past’ and ‘to rise above the politics of the second in her deal with to leaders on the twenty sixth United Nations Local weather Change Convention in Glasgow 

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the Earthshot reception at the COP26 summit in Glasgow last night

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the Earthshot reception on the COP26 summit in Glasgow final night time

The lavish reception got here simply moments after the Queen urged world leaders to ‘earn a spot in historical past’ and ‘reply the decision of these future generations’ in an impassioned speech to representatives.

Her Majesty, 95, who was compelled to overlook the convention after her in a single day keep in hospital final month, instructed leaders through video ‘to rise above the politics of the second, and obtain true statesmanship’ as Authorities representatives attended the reception for the twenty sixth United Nations Local weather Change Convention.

She went on to say that ‘none of us will dwell without end’ and ‘we’re doing this not for ourselves however for our youngsters and our youngsters’s kids, and those that will comply with of their footsteps’ as she urged leaders to succeed in decisive COP local weather change offers.

In her most private speech up to now, the monarch additionally paid tribute to Prince Philip and described how ‘the affect of the atmosphere on human progress’ was a topic near the center of her ‘pricey late husband’ – who in 1969 instructed a gathering: ‘If we fail to deal with this problem, all the opposite issues will pale into insignificance.’

After the monarch’s highly effective speech, the Prime Minister stated: ‘What we have in the present day, as Her Majesty alluded to, is the largest gathering of world leaders on this nation for the reason that basis of the UN on the finish of the Second World Conflict, and it is fairly a rare historic occasion.

‘However in a manner, what we’re doing in the present day, is much more essential, as a result of we face nothing lower than a mortal menace to our planet and to our civilisation, to our lifestyle.’

The night reception got here on the finish of a busy first day of local weather negotiations in Glasgow that additionally noticed:

  • Round 120 leaders attend the two-day World Leaders’ Summit firstly of the two-week Cop26 convention in Glasgow;
  • Some together with Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised for flying by non-public jet from the G20 summit in Rome to make it again for the beginning of the summit;
  • Delegates on the opening ceremony hear stark warnings in speeches from Mr Johnson, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, and Sir David Attenborough;
  • Mr Guterres accused of hyperbole for prompt international locations have been ‘digging our personal graves’ and treating nature ‘like a bathroom’;
  • Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, apologise for evaluating the failure to face the specter of local weather change with the Nazi’s genocide within the Nineteen Thirties;
  • Dozens of protest teams together with Extinction Rebel and Glasgow Calls Out Polluters are holding rallies simply exterior the UN convention’s ‘ring of metal’.

Because the night time continued the Prime Minister instructed company: ‘How do you flip COP into ”coup”, what do you add to show COP into ”coup”?

‘You add ”u’,’ you add ”you”. It is a quite simple concept, you add ”u”. You can also make the distinction, you’ll be able to flip this COP into a big coup, as a result of you may have the concepts, you may have the imaginations, you may have the expertise, the aptitude, and loads of you may have the cash to do it.

‘And the folks of the world are us tonight, they’re us over the course of the following few days to show this factor spherical.’

The PM additionally hailed Prince Charles as the person to defuse the bomb on the world’s second of hazard.

He instructed company: ‘You heard me earlier on say this was a job for James Bond. Properly we’ve got anyone who drives an electrical Aston Martin who has a plan to defuse the ticking time bomb.

‘l simply wish to say you are a prophet with out honour and you’ve got been proper for a really very long time.’

In the meantime Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness instructed leaders the world was ‘at a crossroads’ and we ‘should take collective measures’.

He stated: ‘Humanity’s existence and life as we all know it, particularly for small island creating states which must adapt, demand pressing and decisive motion.

‘We’re at a crossroads, and should take collective measures to protect our widespread future.’

Earlier on Monday, Biden delivered his plans for slicing carbon emissions with a dose of scorching air, as organisers ‘gonged’ him for blasting previous his allotted three minutes.

The president pushed the advantages of a inexperienced financial system saying the U.S would lead by instance.

Ignoring the audible warnings, he stated the ‘eyes of historical past’ have been on the delegates and unveiled an in depth plan to chop emissions on the trail to a web zero carbon financial system by 2050.

He stated: ‘The US isn’t solely again on the desk, however hopefully main by the ability of our instance.

‘I do know it hasn’t been the case. And that is why my administration is working time beyond regulation to point out that our Local weather Dedication is motion, not phrases.’

In the meantime German Chancellor Angela Merkel additionally urged international locations to sort out carbon emissions, that are the principle trigger of worldwide warming.

In her final COP deal with as chancellor, she stated: ‘What we want is a complete transformation of the best way we dwell, work and do enterprise. And that is why I wish to make a transparent plea right here for the pricing of carbon emissions.

‘Of CO2 emissions. With such pricing, which we have already got within the European Union, which is being launched in China, and which must be developed with many others all over the world, we are able to additional our business, our financial system, discover the very best and most effective methods for expertise to get to local weather neutrality.’

And Canada’s Justin Trudeau stated the nation will cap oil and fuel sector emissions in the present day to be able to attain net-zero by 2050.

He stated: ‘We’ll cap oil and fuel sector emissions in the present day and guarantee they lower tomorrow at a tempo and scale wanted to succeed in net-zero by 2050.

‘That is no small job for a significant oil and fuel producing nation. It is a large step that is completely vital.’

In her speech final night time the Queen urged world leaders to ‘earn a spot in historical past’ and ‘reply the decision of these future generations’.

Her Majesty stated: ‘I’m delighted to welcome you all to the twenty sixth United Nations Local weather Change Convention; and it’s maybe becoming that you’ve come collectively in Glasgow, as soon as a heartland of the commercial revolution, however now a spot to deal with local weather change.

‘This can be a obligation I’m particularly joyful to discharge, because the affect of the atmosphere on human progress was a topic near the center of my pricey late husband, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh.

‘I bear in mind properly that in 1969, he instructed an educational gathering: ”If the world air pollution scenario isn’t vital in the intervening time, it’s as sure as something may be, that the scenario will change into more and more insupportable inside a really quick time … If we fail to deal with this problem, all the opposite issues will pale into insignificance.’

The monarch went on to explain the way it gave her ‘nice satisfaction’ that the efforts of her late husband to guard ‘our fragile planet’ now lived on by the work of her eldest son Charles and her grandson William.

She continued: ‘It’s a supply of nice satisfaction to me that the main function my husband performed in encouraging folks to guard our fragile planet, lives on by the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William.

‘I couldn’t be extra pleased with them. Certainly, I’ve drawn nice consolation and inspiration from the relentless enthusiasm of individuals of all ages – particularly the younger – in calling for everybody to play their half.’

The royal known as on leaders to create a ‘safer, stabler future’ for the generations forward and stated it was the hope of many who the legacy of this summit ‘will describe you because the leaders who didn’t go up the chance’.

She continued: ‘Within the coming days, the world has the prospect to affix within the shared goal of making a safer, stabler future for our folks and for the planet on which we rely.

‘None of us underestimates the challenges forward: however historical past has proven that when nations come collectively in widespread trigger, there may be all the time room for hope. Working facet by facet, we’ve got the power to resolve probably the most insurmountable issues and to conquer the best of adversities.

‘For greater than seventy years, I’ve been fortunate to satisfy and to know most of the world’s nice leaders. And I’ve maybe come to grasp a bit of about what made them particular.

‘It has typically been noticed that what leaders do for his or her folks in the present day is authorities and politics. However what they do for the folks of tomorrow — that’s statesmanship. I, for one, hope that this convention will probably be a type of uncommon events the place everybody may have the prospect to rise above the politics of the second, and obtain true statesmanship.

‘It’s the hope of many who the legacy of this summit – written in historical past books but to be printed – will describe you because the leaders who didn’t go up the chance; and that you simply answered the decision of these future generations.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the Duchess of Cornwall as they attend an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the Duchess of Cornwall as they attend a night reception to mark the opening day of the COP26 summit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets  Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as they arrive to attend an evening reception to mark the opening day of the COP26

Prime Minister Boris Johnson greets  Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as they arrive to attend a night reception to mark the opening day of the COP26

German chancellor Angela Merkel and the Duchess of Cornwall speak with each other at the climate change conference

German chancellor Angela Merkel and the Duchess of Cornwall converse with one another on the local weather change convention

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge speak with guests at a reception for the key members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Winners and Finalists of the first Earthshot Prize

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge converse with company at a reception for the important thing members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the Winners and Finalists of the primary Earthshot Prize

President Biden appeared in high spirits as he spoke with leaders and delegates at the conference in Scotland

President Biden appeared in excessive spirits as he spoke with leaders and delegates on the convention in Scotland

During the reception, guests heard as the Queen issued a rallying cry to world leaders attending Cop26 urging them to work together in 'common cause' to tackle climate change

Throughout the reception, company heard because the Queen issued a rallying cry to world leaders attending Cop26 urging them to work collectively in ‘widespread trigger’ to sort out local weather change 

President Joe Biden poses for a group photo during the leader reception at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum

President Joe Biden poses for a bunch photograph in the course of the chief reception at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with representative at an evening reception in Glasgow for the COP26 summit

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with consultant at a night reception in Glasgow for the COP26 summit

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for the reception in Glasgow

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for the reception in Glasgow

Prince William  speaks with leaders and Government representatives at the reception for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference

Prince William  speaks with leaders and Authorities representatives on the reception for the twenty sixth United Nations Local weather Change Convention

The monarch, who was speaking via video, also paid tribute to Prince Philip and described how ' the impact of the environment on human progress' was a subject close to the heart of her 'dear late husband'

The monarch, who was talking through video, additionally paid tribute to Prince Philip and described how ‘ the affect of the atmosphere on human progress’ was a topic near the center of her ‘pricey late husband’ 

Earlier in the day German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured with Prince William)  urged countries to tackle carbon emissions

Earlier within the day German Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured with Prince William)  urged international locations to sort out carbon emissions

Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, US President Joe Biden and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend the evening reception for the UN Climate Change Conference

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, US President Joe Biden and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend the night reception for the UN Local weather Change Convention

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (left) speaks with President Joe Biden (centre) and the Duchess of Cornwall at the COP26 reception at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

Overseas Secretary Liz Truss (left) speaks with President Joe Biden (centre) and the Duchess of Cornwall on the COP26 reception on the Kelvingrove Artwork Gallery in Glasgow 

‘That you simply left this convention as a neighborhood of countries with a dedication, a want, and a plan, to deal with the affect of local weather change; and to recognise that the time for phrases has now moved to the time for motion.’

The Queen’s full speech to world leaders at COP26

‘Thanks, Prime Minister Holness, to your form phrases of introduction. I’m delighted to welcome you all to the twenty sixth United Nations Local weather Change Convention; and it’s maybe becoming that you’ve come collectively in Glasgow, as soon as a heartland of the commercial revolution, however now a spot to deal with local weather change. 

‘This can be a obligation I’m particularly joyful to discharge, because the affect of the atmosphere on human progress was a topic near the center of my pricey late husband, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. 

‘I bear in mind properly that in 1969, he instructed an educational gathering: ‘If the world air pollution scenario isn’t vital in the intervening time, it’s as sure as something may be, that the scenario will change into more and more insupportable inside a really quick time … If we fail to deal with this problem, all the opposite issues will pale into insignificance.’

 ‘It’s a supply of nice satisfaction to me that the main function my husband performed in encouraging folks to guard our fragile planet, lives on by the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William. 

‘I couldn’t be extra pleased with them. Certainly, I’ve drawn nice consolation and inspiration from the relentless enthusiasm of individuals of all ages – particularly the younger – in calling for everybody to play their half.

‘Within the coming days, the world has the prospect to affix within the shared goal of making a safer, stabler future for our folks and for the planet on which we rely. 

‘None of us underestimates the challenges forward: however historical past has proven that when nations come collectively in widespread trigger, there may be all the time room for hope. Working facet by facet, we’ve got the power to resolve probably the most insurmountable issues and to conquer the best of adversities.

 ‘For greater than seventy years, I’ve been fortunate to satisfy and to know most of the world’s nice leaders. And I’ve maybe come to grasp a bit of about what made them particular.

‘It has typically been noticed that what leaders do for his or her folks in the present day is authorities and politics. However what they do for the folks of tomorrow — that’s statesmanship. 

‘I, for one, hope that this convention will probably be a type of uncommon events the place everybody may have the prospect to rise above the politics of the second, and obtain true statesmanship. 

‘It’s the hope of many who the legacy of this summit – written in historical past books but to be printed – will describe you because the leaders who didn’t go up the chance; and that you simply answered the decision of these future generations. 

‘That you simply left this convention as a neighborhood of countries with a dedication, a want, and a plan, to deal with the affect of local weather change; and to recognise that the time for phrases has now moved to the time for motion.

‘After all, the advantages of such actions won’t be there to take pleasure in for all of us right here in the present day: we none of us will dwell without end. However we’re doing this not for ourselves however for our youngsters and our youngsters’s kids, and those that will comply with of their footsteps. And so, I want you each luck on this vital endeavour. ‘

The Queen’s stern intervention, which was displayed on screens throughout a VVIP reception at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum, got here hours after the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged that India will goal net-zero carbon emissions by 2070 – twenty years later than the targets for the convention – disappointing many delegates.

In the meantime the PM used his speech on the opening of the summit as a rallying cry to attempt to construct momentum as he welcomed overseas leaders to Glasgow after securing solely lukewarm local weather commitments on the G20 summit in Rome over the weekend.

And Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, accused international locations of ‘treating nature like a bathroom’ as he warned of a looming ‘local weather disaster’.

Yesterday, Boris Johnson instructed world leaders that they might not afford to delay taking main motion to deal with local weather change as he warned ‘the longer we fail to behave, the more serious it will get’.

The Prime Minister in contrast the scenario dealing with the globe to the climax of a James Bond movie the place the hero has to thwart plans to explode the planet.

However Mr Johnson stated ‘this isn’t a film’ and the ‘doomsday system is actual’ as he urged his counterparts to do extra to scale back dangerous emissions.

The premier stated the longer international locations wait to take motion then ‘the upper the worth after we are finally compelled by disaster to behave’.

He stated the world has ‘lengthy since run the clock down on local weather change’ and there may be now simply ‘one minute to midnight’, with motion required instantly to stop a world catastrophe.

The PM used his speech on the opening of the summit as a rallying cry to attempt to construct momentum as he welcomed overseas leaders to Glasgow after securing solely lukewarm local weather commitments on the G20 summit in Rome over the weekend.

Nevertheless, hopes for the UN occasion have suffered recent setbacks, after it emerged that China’s president Xi Jinping won’t even give a ‘digital’ speech, as an alternative solely submitting a written assertion.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan additionally introduced he won’t be coming, regardless of attending the G20.

Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, each answerable for large polluters, have additionally declined to attend.

In the meantime, the organisation of the convention has come beneath fireplace after hundreds of delegates have been compelled to attend hours to get by shambolic safety programs this morning.

Mr Johnson pledged in his lunchtime speech to place one other billion kilos into inexperienced finance – so long as the UK financial system performs as anticipated within the coming years.

The PM repeated he wished international leaders to unveil steps on ‘coal, automobiles, money and timber’ – the issues he believes will take advantage of completely different in limiting temperature rises to 1.5 levels.

Mr Johnson had set the tone because the G20 wrapped up on Sunday by studying the riot act to his fellow world leaders, saying their guarantees on tackling local weather change are beginning to ‘sound hole’.

The PM stated there are ‘no compelling excuses for our procrastination’ on lowering dangerous emissions and motion already taken quantities to ‘drops in a quickly warming ocean’.

Mr Johnson welcomed world leaders to Scotland by telling them that the nation’s most well-known fictional son was James Bond.

He stated the fictional hero ‘usually involves the climax of his extremely profitable movies strapped to a doomsday system, desperately making an attempt to work out which colored wire to drag to show it off whereas a pink digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a detonation that may finish human life as we all know it’.

Addressing the packed summit corridor, the PM stated: ‘And we’re in roughly the identical place, my fellow international leaders, as James Bond in the present day.

‘Besides that the tragedy is this isn’t a film and the doomsday system is actual.

‘And the clock is ticking to the livid rhythm of a whole lot of billions of pistons and generators and furnaces and engines with which we’re pumping carbon into the air sooner and sooner, file outputs quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2, elevating the temperature of the planet with a pace and an abruptness that’s totally synthetic.

Boris Johnson (pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) kicked off the climate change summit by exhorting world leaders to back up their talk on climate change with action

Boris Johnson (pictured with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) kicked off the local weather change summit by exhorting world leaders to again up their speak on local weather change with motion 

Canada's Justin Trudeau (pictured with the Duchess of Cambridge) said the country will cap oil and gas sector emissions in order to reach net-zero by 2050

 Canada’s Justin Trudeau (pictured with the Duchess of Cambridge) stated the nation will cap oil and fuel sector emissions to be able to attain net-zero by 2050 

President Biden  pledged the U.S would up its financial stake in fighting climate change, arguing the biggest producers of it should be its biggest investors in fixing it

President Biden  pledged the U.S would up its monetary stake in combating local weather change, arguing the largest producers of it needs to be its greatest buyers in fixing it

Government representatives and world leaders have been tackling the issue of climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow

Authorities representatives and world leaders have been tackling the difficulty of local weather change on the COP26 summit in Glasgow

The Queen's speech came just hours after the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged that India will target net-zero carbon emissions by 2070 - two decades later than the targets for the conference

The Queen’s speech got here simply hours after the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged that India will goal net-zero carbon emissions by 2070 – twenty years later than the targets for the convention

Sir David Attenborough delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

Sir David Attenborough delivers a speech in the course of the opening ceremony of the UN Local weather Change Convention in Glasgow

President Joe Biden joins hundreds of leaders and delegates for the opening session of the COP26 summit in Glasgow

President Joe Biden joins a whole lot of leaders and delegates for the opening session of the COP26 summit in Glasgow

The premier said the longer countries wait to take action then 'the higher the price when we are eventually forced by catastrophe to act'. Mr Johnson is pictured welcoming Joe Biden to the summit

 The premier stated the longer international locations wait to take motion then ‘the upper the worth after we are finally compelled by disaster to behave’. Mr Johnson is pictured welcoming Joe Biden to the summit

World leaders including the outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel convened in the main summit hall at lunchtime to hear Mr Johnson deliver the opening address

World leaders together with the outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel convened in the principle summit corridor at lunchtime to listen to Mr Johnson ship the opening deal with 

Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, was among those leaders in the audience listening to the Prime Minister

Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP chief and First Minister of Scotland, was amongst these leaders within the viewers listening to the Prime Minister

What are the important thing goals at COP26? 

  • Safe commitments on slicing emissions by 2030 and reaching Internet Zero as near 2050 as potential.
  • Preserve alive hopes of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 levels.
  • Part out unabated coal energy stations, drum up funding in renewable power.
  • Strike offers on lowering deforestation.  
  • Rack up $100billion in local weather finance pledges.
  • Finalise guidelines to implement the Paris Settlement.   

 

‘We all know what the scientists inform us and we’ve got realized to not ignore them. Two levels extra and we jeopardise the meals provide for a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of individuals as crops wither, locusts swarm.

‘Three levels and you may add extra wildfires and cyclones, twice as many, 5 occasions as many droughts and 36 occasions as many warmth waves.

‘4 levels and we are saying goodbye to entire cities – Miami, Alexandria, Shanghai – all misplaced beneath the waves.

‘And the longer we fail to behave, the more serious it will get and he greater the worth after we are finally compelled by disaster to behave as a result of humanity has lengthy since run down the clock on local weather change. It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we have to act now.’

Mr Johnson stated that the present crop of world leaders will probably be judged harshly by future generations in the event that they fail to agree a deal to limit international warming to not more than 1.5 levels.

He stated: ‘If we fail they won’t forgive us. They are going to know that Glasgow was the historic turning level when historical past failed to show.

‘They are going to decide us with bitterness and with a resentment that eclipses any of the local weather activists of in the present day. And they are going to be proper.’

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are pictured arriving for the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are pictured arriving for the Cop26 summit on the Scottish Occasion Campus (SEC) in Glasgow

French president Emmanuel Macron gestures to the Prime Minister as they chat on Monday morning as the climate change summit kicks off

French president Emmanuel Macron gestures to the Prime Minister as they chat on Monday morning because the local weather change summit kicks off

Boris Johnson has told world leaders at the start of the COP26 summit that they can no longer afford to delay taking major action to address climate change as he warned 'the longer we fail to act, the worse it gets’

Boris Johnson has instructed world leaders in the beginning of the COP26 summit that they’ll not afford to delay taking main motion to deal with local weather change as he warned ‘the longer we fail to behave, the more serious it will get’

Mr Johnson closed his speech by telling his counterparts that they’ve a ‘obligation’ to work collectively to make COP26 the second once they start to lastly ‘defuse the bomb’ of local weather change.

He stated: ‘We could not really feel very like James Bond, not all of us essentially appear like James Bond, however we’ve got the chance and we’ve got the obligation to make this summit the second when humanity lastly started, and I stress started, to defuse that bomb and to make this the second after we started irrefutably to show the tide and to start the combat again towards local weather change.’

Hopes of the summit delivering a significant breakthrough have been hit laborious by the absence of President Xi and President Putin.

In a spherical of interviews yesterday, Overseas Secretary Liz Truss stated the UK is ‘placing loads of stress’ on the 2 leaders no matter their resolution to not attend.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) poses for a photograph during her meeting with climate activists Vanessa Nakate (right) and Greta Thunberg (left) during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) poses for {a photograph} throughout her assembly with local weather activists Vanessa Nakate (proper) and Greta Thunberg (left) in the course of the COP26 UN Local weather Change Convention

Mr Johnson (left) and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (right) greet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP26

Mr Johnson (left) and UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres (proper) greet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP26

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in arrives for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow on Monday morning

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in arrives for the UN Local weather Change Convention (COP26) in Glasgow on Monday morning

She instructed BBC Breakfast: ‘Each of these leaders are sending senior delegations to Glasgow so there will probably be illustration in particular person right here in Glasgow.

‘The Prime Minister has spoken to each Vladimir Putin and President Xi, we’re placing loads of stress on these international locations.

‘As a result of to be able to sort out local weather change it must be international motion and people international locations are excessive emitters of carbon dioxide.’

Ms Truss additionally defended the large carbon toll of world leaders – together with US president Joe Biden – flying to Glasgow to speak in particular person.

‘I believe all people who has ever performed a Zoom name is aware of that they’re fairly helpful for some issues however whenever you actually get into crunch negotiations, whenever you wish to look anyone within the eye and speak to them face-to-face you do want to satisfy in particular person, and that is actually vital,’ she stated.

‘World leaders are going to need to make some robust selections about what is going on on in their very own international locations, they will need to decide to issues they did not essentially wish to once they arrived on the convention and that is why it is actually essential that we do have folks face-to-face.’

The primary days of the seminal local weather convention have been dogged with issues with many journalists reporting lengthy queues that means Authorities officers missed conferences.

Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general accused countries of 'treating nature like a toilet' as he warned of a looming 'climate catastrophe'

Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general accused international locations of ‘treating nature like a bathroom’ as he warned of a looming ‘local weather disaster’

Mr Johnson and Sir David Attenborough were in the audience listening to speeches on the first day of the leaders' summit

Mr Johnson and Sir David Attenborough have been within the viewers listening to speeches on the primary day of the leaders’ summit   

President Joe Biden's car, commonly known as 'the Beast', drives along the M8 motorway near Salsburgh on its way to the summit

President Joe Biden’s automotive, generally often called ‘the Beast’, drives alongside the M8 motorway close to Salsburgh on its strategy to the summit

Prince Charles used his COP26 address to demand a 'military-style campaign' to mobilise trillions of dollars of private sector cash to 'save our precious planet'

Prince Charles used his COP26 deal with to demand a ‘military-style marketing campaign’ to mobilise trillions of {dollars} of personal sector money to ‘save our valuable planet’

Speaking at a demonstration at Festival Park, Glasgow, Swedish 18-year-old activist GretaThunberg said that heads of government were not doing enough to save the planet from disaster

Talking at an indication at Competition Park, Glasgow, Swedish 18-year-old activist GretaThunberg stated that heads of presidency weren’t doing sufficient to avoid wasting the planet from catastrophe

Organisers of the convention got here beneath fireplace after urging delegates who’ve travelled to Glasgow to tune into the net feed due to a ‘excessive degree of attendance’ on the venue.

COP26 delegates compelled to FLY to Glasgow after a SINGLE fallen tree causes journey chaos at London Euston

Mayhem at London’s Euston Station continued in the present day after a single tree fell and broken overhead wires inflicting journey chaos for delegates making an attempt to succeed in the COP26 local weather change convention in Glasgow.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Pendolino local weather practice left London Euston on time this morning however different delegates have been compelled to fly to Glasgow and passengers spent the night time on the ground after heavy winds introduced a tree down on high of overhead strains.  

Delays continued this morning after the only tree fell between between Rugby and Milton Keynes on the West Coast Important Line. Community Rail stated its groups spent the night time on web site close to Lengthy Buckby in Northamptonshire. 

One journalist travelling to the COP26 local weather summit was quoted nearly £1,000 for a taxi between Edinburgh and Glasgow after battling practice cancellations. 

One other CEO delegate, who took to a airplane to succeed in the local weather change summit, stated the irony of getting to decide on the carbon-heavy possibility after excessive climate affected the trains ‘was not misplaced’ on him.  

In the meantime, Mr Khan wrote on Twitter: ‘Delighted to steer a delegation of mayors from throughout the globe from London to Glasgow on our particular electrical Pendolino local weather practice. Per capita passenger emissions are estimated to be seven occasions decrease than flying.’ 

Delays continued this morning even after engineers labored in a single day to restore the broken wires and Community Rail final night time admitted ‘excessive climate’ had ‘received the higher of us’. In the meantime, Boris Johnson arrived at Glasgow Worldwide Airport at 11.30pm final night time after flying straight from the G20 summit in Rome, Italy.

And the chaos did not cease with Britain’s rail community, as hundreds of attendees battled towards prolonged immovable queues by safety this morning. One bystander joked the convention could be a catastrophe as a result of nobody could be there till the second day.  

1000’s of attendees discovered themselves ready properly over 90 minutes exterior this morning in a 9C (48F) chill – with complaints that conferences have been missed and anger on the shambolic organisation.

Delegates waited in entrance of the Scottish Occasion Campus the place hundreds of officers have been in place and erected a hoop of metal as representatives of 200 nations collect to thrash out a deal to attempt to restrict international warming to 1.5C.

These attending – lots of whom have flown in from all over the world on planes – have already wanted to undergo an in depth accreditation course of, together with getting an official letter stating they’re registered and utilizing an app to confirm their visible ID. They need to additionally current proof of a unfavourable Covid lateral stream take a look at.

As Authorities representatives gathered contained in the Glasgow venue tonight Greta Thunberg denounced world leaders for failing to behave on local weather change to her fellow Cop26 protesters.

Talking at an indication at Competition Park, Glasgow, on the primary day of the Cop26 summit, Swedish 18-year-old activist Miss Thunberg stated that heads of presidency weren’t doing sufficient to avoid wasting the planet from catastrophe.

She stated: ‘No extra blah blah blah, no extra regardless of the f*** they’re doing inside there.

‘Inside Cop, there are simply politicians and other people in energy pretending to take our future significantly, pretending to take the current significantly. Change isn’t going to come back from inside there, that isn’t management – that is management… We are saying no extra blah blah blah, no extra exploitation of individuals and the planet.’

Miss Thunberg arrived in Glasgow on Sunday by practice and can participate in two giant protests by the town later within the week.

Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough requested attendees: ‘Is that this how our story is because of finish – a story of the neatest species doomed by that all-too-human attribute of failing to see the larger image in pursuit of short-term objectives?’

And Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby stated the result of the local weather summit could be ‘life or dying for hundreds of thousands of individuals’, suggesting that failure to behave might be worse than leaders who ignored warnings concerning the Nazis within the Nineteen Thirties – a remark he later apologised for.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in the present day met with Miss Thunberg at Cop26, following the Swedish environmental activist’s arrival in Scotland on Saturday.

On Monday morning, Ms Thunberg together with fellow campaigner Vanessa Nakate, from Uganda, met with the First Minister, who tweeted: ‘The voices of younger folks like @GretaThunberg and @vanessa-vash should be heard loudly and clearly at Cop26 – the following few days shouldn’t be snug for leaders, the accountability to behave should be felt.’

Ms Thunberg has beforehand been vital of the Scottish Authorities’s local weather coverage, saying that the nation was ‘not a frontrunner on local weather change’, because the First Minister had beforehand acknowledged.

Scotland has pledged to chop emissions by 75% by 2030 and be web zero by 2045, however the final three years of targets have been missed.

Nicola Sturgeon has stated that world leaders gathering in Glasgow for the Cop26 local weather summit ought to really feel ‘bloody uncomfortable’ for not ‘doing sufficient’ to sort out international warming.

Ms Sturgeon, talking because the essential summit started, insisted: ‘Each local weather promise should be stored. Frankly none of them are being stored proper now.’

Talking at an occasion hosted by the environmental organisation WWF, she instructed how she had simply met Ms Thunberg and one other younger local weather activist, Vanessa Nakate from Uganda.

UN chief accuses international locations of treating nature ‘like a bathroom’ and warns mining for fossil fuels is like ‘digging our personal graves’ 

The UN secretary-general accused international locations of ‘treating nature like a bathroom’ in the present day as he warned of a looming ‘local weather disaster’.

Antonio Guterres insisted it’s an ‘phantasm’ to suppose there was sufficient progress lowering carbon emissions, and mining for fossil fuels is like ‘digging our personal graves’. 

The startling comparability got here in a speech opening the COP26 session for world leaders. 

Mr Guterres stated the world’s ‘dependancy to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink’.

He instructed the opening plenary of the convention in Glasgow: ‘We face a stark selection: both we cease it — or it stops us.

‘It is time to say: sufficient. Sufficient of brutalising biodiversity. Sufficient of killing ourselves with carbon. Sufficient of treating nature like a bathroom.

‘Sufficient of burning and drilling and mining our manner deeper. We’re digging our personal graves. ‘ 

Ms Sturgeon stated: ‘These voices usually, together with for me, are actually uncomfortable at occasions, as a result of they make us confront the laborious realities of our personal lack of supply.

‘However my goodness they’re so essential to shake the gatherings that may happen right here over the following few days out of the sense of complacency that surrounds all of them too usually.’

She continued: ‘If we solely withstand the simple, comparatively simple issues we cannot get wherever. This must be a second that leaders, all of us, whether or not we’re spherical that negotiating desk or not, are held to account for the truth of what we promise not for the rhetoric of it.’

With leaders of greater than 100 international locations gathering in Glasgow for the talks, Ms Sturgeon urged campaigners to ‘make life actually uncomfortable for any authorities, any chief that isn’t doing sufficient’.

She added: ‘We’ve got all received to be pushed a lot more durable a lot sooner.

‘This summit shouldn’t really feel snug for anyone able of management and accountability, it ought to really feel bloody uncomfortable as a result of no one but is doing sufficient, that’s the actuality.’

Forward of the summit, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that failure in Glasgow might imply that the Paris settlement from 2015 – by which leaders promised to work in the direction of retaining international temperature rises to 1.5 levels – would ‘crumple’.

Mr Johnson stated: ‘If Glasgow fails, then the entire thing fails.

‘The Paris Settlement may have crumpled on the first reckoning.’

On Sunday, Prince Charles used his COP26 deal with to demand a ‘military-style marketing campaign’ to mobilise trillions of {dollars} of personal sector money to ‘save our valuable planet’.

The Duke of Cornwall stated the pandemic had taught the world ‘timelines may be sped up dramatically’ when everybody ‘agrees on the urgency and the path’.

The longer term king stated high CEOs and companies he had spoken to confirmed they have been able to do their half to guard the globe from local weather change.

Prince Charles stated the energy of the ‘international non-public sector’ was larger than governments and represented the one ‘actual prospect’ of elementary change.

He stated: ‘So women and gents, my plea in the present day is for international locations to come back collectively to create the atmosphere that permits each sector of business to take the motion required.

‘We all know this may take trillions, not billions of {dollars}. We additionally know that international locations, many that are burdened by heavy ranges of debt, merely can not afford to go inexperienced.

‘Right here we want an enormous, army type marketing campaign to marshal the energy of the worldwide non-public sector.

‘With trillions at its disposal, far past international GDP and with the best respects past even the federal government’s of the world’s leaders it provides the one actual prospect of attaining a elementary financial transition.

‘So how can we do it? First how can we get the non-public sector all pulling in the identical path?

‘After almost two years now of session, CEOs have instructed me we have to deliver collectively international industries to map out in very sensible phrases what it would take to make the transition.

‘We all know from the pandemic the non-public sector can pace up timelines dramatically when everybody agrees on the urgency and the path.

‘So every sector wants a transparent technique of getting improvements to mark it. Second, who pays and the way?

‘We have to align non-public funding behind these business methods to assist finance the transition effort, which implies constructing the boldness of buyers so the monetary threat is diminished.

‘Funding is required to switch from coal to wash power. If we are able to develop a pipeline of extra sustainable and bankable initiatives at a enough scale it would entice enough funding.

‘Third which switches can we flick to allow these aims?

‘Greater than 300 of the world’s main CEOs and and buyers have instructed me that alongside facet the guarantees international locations have made… they want clear market indicators, agreed globally so that they have the boldness to speculate with out the goalposts abruptly transferring.

‘That is the framework I’ve provided on a Terracarter roadmap created by my steady markets initiative with almost 100 particular actions for acceleration.

‘Collectively we’re working to drive trillions of {dollars} into assist transition throughout ten of probably the most emitting and polluting industries.

‘They embody power, agriculture, transportation, well being programs and style. The truth of in the present day’s international provide chains means business transition will impact each nation and each producer on this planet.

‘There’s completely not doubt in my thoughts that the non-public sector is able to play its half and to work with governments to discover a manner ahead.’

The Prince additionally stated the world has been placed on ‘warfare footing’ because of the affect of local weather change and lack of biodiversity.

He continued: ‘The pandemic has proven us simply how devastating a world cross border menace may be.

‘Local weather change and biodiversity loss are not any completely different. in actual fact they pose a fair larger existential menace.’

He went on: ‘To the extent we’ve got to place ourselves on what is likely to be known as a war-like footing.

‘Having the chance of consulting lots of you myself over these previous few months I do know you all carry a heavy burden in your shoulders and you do not want me to inform you that the eyes and hopes of the world are upon you to behave decisively as a result of time has actually run out.’