Boris Johnson warns world leaders there are 'no compelling excuses' for failing to take action on global warming
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was speaking at the close of the G20 summit in Rome
Speaking at the close of the G20 summit in Rome, he said some progress was made in the past few days - but there was still a "huge way" to go.Mr Johnson added immediate action was needed to halve emissions by 2030."Not only have we acknowledged the problem, we have already seen first hand the devastation that climate change causes - heatwaves and droughts to wildfires and hurricanes.
"If we don't act now, the Paris Agreement will be looked at in the future, not as the moment that humanity opened its eyes to the problem but the moment we flinched and turned away." "We all know that we have the technology, what we need to do now is to raise the finance but, above all, we need the political will in Glasgow to make those commitments and to keep alive the hope of restraining the growth in our temperatures to 1.5 degrees."
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