COP26: Johnson urges world leaders to go further in global warming fight

Meeting 1.5ºC target possible but 'anything but a done deal'

Pedro Gonçalves
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Boris Johnson urged world leaders to go further in their climate pledges at the COP26 in Glasgow, saying that the goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius remained alive.

The Prime Minister returned to Scotland by train earlier today (10 November)  - a week after being criticised for flying home from the climate summit. Admitting that the COP26 conference "is not going to fix" climate change in one go, Johnson said: "What we can possibly do, if things go well in the remaining 48 hours, 52 hours, whatever we've got - and I don't see why we shouldn't go into extra time if we have to, but you know I don't want to - is the possibility that we will come away from this with the first genuine road map for a solution to anthropogenic climate change that I can thi...

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