Read more about Glasgow COP26: It’s James Bond moment to save planet, says Boris Johnson on Business Standard. UK’s Johnson warns of ‘doomsday’ as climate summit begins
British Prime Minister opened the global climate summit on Monday, saying the world is strapped to a “doomsday device”. Johnson likened an ever-warming Earth’s position to that of fictional secret agent James Bond — strapped to a bomb that will destroy the planet and trying to work out how to defuse it. “We are in roughly the same position my fellow global leaders as James Bond today except that the tragedy is this is not a movie… the doomsday device is real… it’s ‘one minute to midnight’ to prevent climate catastrophe.” The threat is triggered by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and he pointed out that it all started in Glasgow with James Watt’s steam engine powered by coal. He was kicking off the world leaders’ summit portion of a UN climate conference, which is aimed at getting agreement to curb carbon emissions fast enough to keep to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) below pre-industrial levels.
