The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will urge the world to “move from aspirations to action” during the COP26 climate summit, according to excerpts from the inauguration speech that he will deliver on Monday advanced by his office.

“There is one minute to midnight and we have to act now. If we don’t take climate change seriously today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow. “Johnson will say in his opening address.

The host of the summit, which is held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, until 12 November, will urge the more than 120 leaders who are scheduled to attend, plus those who will attend virtually, to take action to end coal, accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and stop deforestation.

Johnson, who will also call for increased financial contributions to developing countries affected by the climate crisis, will announce that the British Government will increase its own target by £ 1 billion. ($ 1.37 billion) additional, up to 12.6 billion ($ 17.3 billion), if the British economy grows as planned.

“We must move from talks and debate and discussions to concerted real action on coal, cars, money and trees,” the conservative leader will affirm.

“Let’s trade hopes, goals, and aspirations, however valuable, for clear commitments and concrete timetables for change.”, it will add, according to the advance note.

Boris Johnson will call for increasing financial contributions to developing countries affected by the climate crisis

After Johnson’s intervention, the leaders’ meeting will be held until Tuesday, in which the leaders of the different countries will present their emission reduction objectives and will set the course for the negotiations that will take place until November 12, with the objective of reaching a consensus on a plan to limit the global warming ceiling to 1.5ºC this century.

For her part, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged world leaders gathered at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on Sunday to show more ambitious policies, calling climate change a “serious threat to macroeconomic and financial stability.” .

Georgieva posted a blog entry titled “Climate Threat Calls for More Ambitious Global Action” before heading to Glasgow, where she will participate in climate talks, according to a spokesperson for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Left unchanged, “global policies will leave carbon emissions in 2030 much higher than necessary” to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius, Georgieva wrote.

“To achieve these cuts, policy makers attending COP26 must address two critical gaps: in ambition and in policy.”

Georgieva urged advanced economies to cut emissions “for reasons of equity and historical responsibility.

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