➡️ Pledge to end deforestation ➡️ Act now for our children, Queen urges ➡️ Thunberg tells protest politicians are pretending Five things you need to know about the COP26 climate change conference COP26BBC
"The time for words has now moved to the time for action" – watch the Queen's video message to world leaderstriggered a series of demos
across Glasgow, with environmental campaign Greenpeace sailing its Rainbow Warrior ship up the Clyde and Extinction Rebellion protesters welcoming delegates at Central station. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told an event near the COP26 campus by the Fridays for Future youth movement that politicians were merely "pretending to take our future seriously".
The world is now about 1.2C warmer than it was in the 19th Century - and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by 50%. In order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, scientists say global warming needs to be limited to 1.5C by 2100.
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