Boris Johnson has joked that he could still be in Downing Street in 2060 as he appealed to world leaders to "defuse the bomb" of climate change before it's too late.
In a speech to the COP26 summit, the Prime Minister said world leaders must not fail future generations as he issued a doomsday warning over the future of the planet.
However he couldn't resist peppering his speech with references to iconic spy James Bond - and joking that he could still be in office when he was 94-years-old.
Addressing 120 world leaders in Glasgow, Mr Johnson said: "We all talk about what we’re going to do in 2050, in 2060… the average age of this conclave of world leaders I’m afraid to say, is over 60.
"I fully intend to be alive in 2060. I will be a mere 94 years old, even if I’m not still in Downing Street.
"You never know. But the children who will judge us are children not yet born, and their children.”
Mr Johnson started his speech with a nod to fictional Scottish spy James Bond, who he said "generally comes to the climax of his highly lucrative films strapped to a doomsday device, desperately trying to work out which coloured wire to pull to turn it off, while a red digital clock ticks down remorselessly to a detonation that will end human life as we know it".
He added: "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 and the doomsday device is real.
"The clock is ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and furnaces and engines with which we are pumping carbon into the air faster and faster... and quilting the earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2, raising the temperature of the planet with a speed and abruptness that is entirely man made."
He warned world leaders that younger generations would not forgive if "we fluff our lines".
"We are now coming centre stage before a vast and uncountable audience of posterity and we must not fluff our lines or miss our cue," Mr Johnson said.
"Because if we fail, they will not forgive us - they will know that Glasgow was the historic turning point when history failed to turn.
"They will judge us with bitterness and with a resentment that eclipses any of the climate activists of today and they will be right.
"Cop26 will not and cannot be the end of the story on climate change."
