Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said world leaders must not “think in any way that the job is done” on tackling climate change.
Speaking at a press conference at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, Mr Johnson said there was “still a very long way to go” but he said he was “cautiously optimistic”.
Recalling a football reference he made before the G20 meeting in Rome where it was 5-1 down in a match between humanity and climate change, Mr Johnson said that now “we’ve pulled back a goal, or perhaps even two, and I think we are going to be able to take this thing to extra-time, because there’s no doubt that some progress has been made”.
Boris Johnson said that international negotiators at the Glasgow conference have made progress.
“I think we can be confident about one thing in the days ahead – the couple of weeks we’ve got – the clock on the doomsday clock I was talking about is still ticking, but we’ve got a bomb disposal team on site, and they’re starting to snip the wires, I hope some of the right wires.”
