Boris Johnson has warned world leaders that the longer they fail to tackle climate, the higher the cost when they are forced "by catastrophe" to act.
Addressing world leaders including US President Joe Biden, Johnson said the world was in roughly the same position as James Bond as he tries to deactivate a doomsday advice in his films.
But he said: "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
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