for every wes, i'm attacks and thoughts the least that people's concerns. cross country is age and gender. we must listen and we must act and we must choose wisely. on behalf of these and future generations, i urge you choose ambition. choose sully, that is the truth. to safeguard our future and save humanity. and i thank you. walking genius, you're watching the special in coverage of what's going on and off the $26.00. this is the news our i'm piece adobe in dover, my colleague nick clark, his life for us in glasgow, where cop 26 is taking place. we've just been hearing there from the un secretary general antonio terrace. he was saying in the 6 years since the paris summit, we've had the 6 hottest years on record. let's talk to nick clark about that. nick,

a very strong opening set of comments there from and tuning to tara, she was saying that is an army of the young lead by young people. it is unstoppable, and i stand with them. yeah, we're going to be say a lot and hearing a lot from that army of the young certainly next weekend will not be retrace protesting. bear thousands hair and glassdoor guitar is doing what he always has done ever since he took off his really just rallying the call for effective action on climate change. let's bring in james base or diplomatic editor he's. he's been falling guitars. his career is a year and 2nd general. so what did you make of his words? his words are getting tougher and tougher. we are digging our own graves for smaller lines than states. failure is a death sentence. very, very tough on climate, particularly in the last year or so. now that's because we're getting closer to this vital conference. i think it also, partly because there's a different,

a group of international leaders on the stage and what man has exited the stage. because the un secretary general, you do not want to be in conflict with the most powerful country on earth. and of course on climate with president trump around until the end of last year. there was a problem for the secretary general and he certainly pushed the climate button repeatedly, but he never, never was very careful not to criticize the united states. one interesting thing though, although we've heard these speeches and they're getting more and more alarm being from the un seconds, you know, one thing you inserted in this one within the past heard there's no plan be, there's no other option. glove goes, but place to sort this, this time if our commitments will short by the end of this call, the countries must revisit the national climate plans and policies, not every 5 years every year. so i think they're getting ready, preparing us for the fact that not going to get everything they want at this conference is that it seems to be that way. does it also interesting that he's just come off the back of the g 20 summit like you have you covering that in room. but no mention of that in this rather flimsy, watery communicate that was released?

no. and i spoke to you and insider about this and they said listen carefully. if he doesn't mention the g 20, that's not because he's trying to put a brave face on things that's a deliberate emission. he doesn't think it achieved enough to be worthy of mention . in this speech, so i think that's important. i think the secretary general, he think you said about the g. 20 was a short tweet. he said leave with my hopes unfulfilled, but at least that not buried. that is all i think he's going to say about the g 20 . he doesn't think it went far enough. i'm told the dynamics in the room was great because some of the lead as well that we didn't actually have a g 20. we had a g, a 14, and 6 g virtually took part in the meeting. and that meant i'm told that it fell to particularly west and gathering that the developing world was not represented as it should have been at that meeting. and that's why i think that a little bit unhappy with the outcome. i'm also told interestingly,

the dynamics of change because trump is not around on climate. everyone used to gang up again struck 19 against one. now the u. s. isn't there to blame. other people are raising that climate issues where they have reservations about putting the tough things the un won't in place. and sometimes i'm told it feels like so 13 to 7 around the table on different issues, right. they've got their individual fights to loud. i wonder is how much will an international diplomacy play a role outside the climate arena? play a role here at cult because it's been pretty fraught international right now. what kind of impact is that like to have on these very delicate negotiations that have i think it always is a factor that people always in any negotiation, a thinking of the wider picture. well, if we give that here, than what can we get in return? so those sort of things i think horse trading will take place. there's real tension between the developed and developing world all or not all of it, but particularly about that figure of

a 100000000000 that was promised and hasn't been delivered by the g 20 conscious to help the developing world adapt to climate change. but as you say, there are, there are wide attentions, there's particularly china and russia didn't attend the t 20 in person on coming to i'm glasgow in person. and i think that plays a factor, the tensions between those countries and the west in the background of all of us are jay's back with you shortly. but so let's listen it now to prince charles. he's addressing delegates. no different. in fact, they pose an even greater existential threat to the extent that we have to put ourselves on what might be called a warlike footy every myself had the opportunity of consulting many of you over these past 18 months. i know you will carry a heavy burden on your shoulders and you do not need me to tell you that the eyes and hopes of the world are upon you to act with all dispatch and

decisively. because time has quite literally run out the reasons i p c. c report, gave us a clear diagnosis of the scale of the problem. we know what we must do with a growing global population. crating ever increasing demand on the planets. finite resources. we have to reduce emissions urgently and take action to tackle the carbon already in the atmosphere, including from co fod pastiche, putting a value on carbon, thus making carbon capture solutions more economical is therefore absolutely critical. similarly, after billions of years of evolution, nature is our best teacher. in this regard, restoring natural capital,

accelerating nature based solutions, and leveraging the secular bio economy will be vital to our efforts. as we tackle this crisis, our efforts cannot be a series of independent initiatives running in parallel. the scale and scope of the threat we face cold for a global systems level solution based on radically transforming our current fossil fuel based economy to one that is genuinely renewable and sustainable. so pleasant to run, my plea to day is for countries to come together to create the environment that enables every sector of industry to take the action required. we know this will take trillions, not billions of dollars. we also know that countries, many of whom are burdened by growing levels of debt simply cannot afford to go

green. here we need a vast military style campaign to marshall the strength of the global private sector with trillions at his disposal. far beyond global g d p, and with the greatest respect beyond even the governments of the world's leaders, it offers the only real prospect of achieving fundamental economic transition. so how do we do it? first, how do we get the private sector all pulling in the same direction of to nearly 2 years now of consultation ceo's of told me that we need to bring together global industries to map out in very practical terms. what it will take to make the transition we know from the pandemic, that the private sector can speed up timelines dramatically when everyone agrees on

the urgency and the direction. so each sector needs a clear strategy to speed up the process of getting innovations to market. second, who pays and how we need to align private investment behind those buying these industry strategies to help finance the transition efforts. which means building the confidence of investors so that the financial risk is reduced. crucially, investment is needed to help transition from co to clean energy. if we can develop a pipeline of many more sustainable and bankable projects out of sufficient scale, it would attract greater investment. 3rd, which switches do we flick to enable these objectives?

more than $300.00 of the wells leading c as an institution. investors have told me that alongside the promises countries of made that nationally determined contributions. they need clear market signals agreed globally so that they have the confidence to invest without the go post. suddenly moving, this is the framework i've offered in the terra cotta road map created by my stable markets initiative with nearly 100 specific actions for acceleration. together we are working to drive trillions of dollars in support of transition across 10 of the most emitting and polluting industries. they include energy, agriculture, transportation, health systems and fashion. the reality of today's global supply chains

means that industry transition will affect every country and every producer in the world. there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the private sector is ready to play its part and to work with governments to find a way forward. your excellence is ladies and gentlemen. many of your countries i know, ah, already feeling the devastating impact of climate change through ever increasing tribes mudslides floods productions site clones and wildfires as you've just seen on that terrifying phil. any leader who has had to confront such life threatening challenges knows that the cost to lead in action is far greater than the cost to prevention. so i could only urge you as the world's decision makers to find practical ways of overcoming differences. so we could all get down to work

together to rescue this precious planet and save the threatened future of our young people. because it please, mountain up 26 people a prince charles standing in for the queen who has been advised to rest at home at prince william, his head to the duke and duchess cambridge over as a great engagements around. but prince charles has been a long advocate in the fight against climate change has been decades and campaigning on this. we can a here very shortly from david ashburn. he's just taking the stage now. he's that the world's favorite naturalist. and he also has been speaking a great deal in recent months and years about the perils our planet is in that it. let's have a listener and gentlemen,

as you spend the next 2 weeks debating, negotiating, persuading, uncompromising, as you showed a must. it's easy to forget that ultimately they allowed and sick time it comes down to a single number, the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. the mac, that greatly determines global temperature. and the changes in that one number is a clear its way to chalk own storage for it defines our relationship with for much of humanity is ancient history. that number bounds wildly between 183. and so to the global temperatures, it was a brutal and unpredictable world at times. and sisters

existed only in time in numbers, but just over 10000 years ago. that number, subtly stabilized with us climate we found ourselves in an unusually benign period with predictable seasons unreliable weather. for the 1st time, civilization was possible at re wasted no time in take for your advantage of that. everything with cheese to the last 10000 years was enabled by the stability during this time. the global temperature has no way but over this period by more than possible minus one decrease until now

one burning of burning go fuels are disruptive nature approach to industry construction that zoning releasing come into the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace and scale read oh, read into this ability, we all depend on his breaking this story is one 0, in the quality as well as in stability today, those who done the least to cause this problem being the hardest hit outs of all of us will feel the impact, some of which are now unavoidable my

world is melting ease singular, until we actually have no content. i'm and so let's take a fight to bring the time to fix this how our story is due to n. a tale of the smartest species doom by that holt to human characteristic of failing to see the big picture in pursuit of the fact that the people most affected by climate change are no longer some imagined future generation. but young people alive today, perhaps that will give us the impetus. we need to rewrite a story to turn this tragedy into a triumph we all of the old, the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on. we now understand this problem. we know how to stop the number rising and put it in reverse.

we must have carbon emissions. told them this decade. we must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. we must fix our sites on keeping one of the degrees within reach. a new industrial revolution powered by millions of sustainable elevations is essential and is indeed already beginning. we will all share in the benefits, affordable, clean energy, healthier, and enough food to sustain this whole. nature is a t ally. whatever we restore the wild, it will recapture carbon and help us bring back the balance due up.

and as we were to build a better world, we must acknowledge no nation has completed its development because no advanced nation is yet sustainable. or have a job is still to compete, so that all nation have a good standard of living. and a modest footprint. we're going to have to learn together how to achieve ensuring none are left behind. we would use this opportunity to create a more equal world. at our motivation should not be fear, but hope can we fix cry me? problem in one generation, my answer would be yes. we have to, we need to not just to talk about what we can do to do

what we can manage that's we should try to sort of been quick way. we did long term vision. it comes out of this, the people alive know all the generation to well look at this conference and consider one thing. did that number stop rising and start to drop as a result of commitment made here? there's a reason to believe that the answer can be yes. if working apart, we are forced powerful enough to destabilize our planet. surely working together, we are powerful enough to save it. in my life time, i've witnessed a tenable decline. yours. you could and shoot witness

a wonderful recovery. that desperate ladies and gentlemen, delicate actions is why the world is looking to you and why you are here. thank you. wise, mary words that from the natural mister david outbreak story because he's 95 years old and very gripping inspiring words of us as i say, a talking about the stability of climate. how the stability but it's climate has created civilization and now civilization is threatening. it a said that the global temperatures have not wavered. morton plus or minus one degree for 10000 years. until now. he said we are in trouble. it's a story of inequality, as well as in stability or let's bring in tom river conduct now august here he's an

author and political lobbyist. we are not going to do that right now because we're going to listen to the the prime minister at barbados. right. not me, i'm only just listening people and to say more planet. but we know find 3 gaps on mitigation claim it pledges are indices without more. we will leave the world on a path with the 2.7 degrees. and with more, we are still likely to get to degrees these commitments made by some are based on technologies yet to be developed. and this is at best reckless and at worst dangerous. on finance, we are $20000000000.00 short of the $100000000000.00. and this commitment even then may only be met in 2023. another taishan adaptation finance remains only at 25 percent. not the 5050 split that was promised nor

needed, given the warming that is already taken place on this earth. claim at finance the front lanes small island developing states declaimed by 25 percent in 2019 failure to pervade the critical finance. and that of loss and damage is measured, made friends in lameness and livelihoods in our communities. this is immoral and it is unjust. if glasgow is to deliver on the promises of paris, it must close these 3 gaps. so i asked to you, what must we say to our people? living on the front lane in the caribbean, in africa, in latin america in the pacific. when both on bishan and regrettably, some of the needed faces at glasgow are not present. what excuse should we

give for the failure? and the words of that caribbean ache on ebay grant will z a more in us on the front lane. when will we, as were leaders across the world, address the press and the seals that are truly causing are people angst and worried whether it is climate or whether it is vaccines. simply put, when will leaders leave? our people are watching and our people are taken, nor are we really going to leave scotland without the resolve. and the ambition that it's sorely needed to save lives and to save our planet, how many more voices, and how many more pictures of people must we see on the screens without being able to move? or are we so blinded and hardened that we can no longer appreciate the craze of

humanity? i haven't seen the barbarians for many years at many hands make late were to day. we need the correct mix of voices. ambition, an action. do some leaders in this world believe that there can survive and thrive on their own? have they not learned from the pandemic? can there be peace and prosperity if one 3rd of the world literally prosperous and the other 2 thirds of the world live under siege? and face kilometer threats to our well being, what the world needs. now, my friends is that which is within the ambit of less than $200.00 persons who are willing and prepared to lead. leaders must not feel laws who elect them to lead . and i said to you, there is a sword that can cut down this gordian knot,

and it has been wielded before the central banks of the wealthiest countries engaged in 20 fav trillion dollars of quantitative ease. in, in the last 13 years, 20 faint trillion of that name trillion was in the last 18 months to fate. the pandemic had we use that 25 trillion to purchase bonds to finance the energy transition, or the transition of whole we eat or whole, we move ourselves in transport. we would know to did be reached that one point crave degrees limit. that is so vital to us. i said to you today in glasgow that an annual increase in the s the eyes of $500000000000.00 a year for 20 years. put in a trust to finance the transition. is the real yeah. secretary general,

that we need to close, not the 50000000000 being proposed for adaptation. and it 500000000 songs big to you. guess what? it is just 2 percent of the 25 trillion. this is a sword. we need to wield our excitement one hour into this event is far less than it was 6 months ago, leading up to this event. can we with those voices? and these speeches from said they were, than others fain within ourselves to get resolved to bring glasgow back on track. or do we leave to day believing that it was a failure before it starts our world, my friends stands are the fork in the road. one no less significant than when the united nations was formed in 1945. but then the majority of our countries here did not exist. we exist know the differences. we want to exist

a 100 years from now. and if our existence is to mean anything, then we must act in the interests of all of our people who are dependent on us. and if we don't, we will along the path of greed and selfishness, the sow the seeds of our common destruction. the leaders of to day, not 2030, if not 2050, must make this choice. it is in our hands and our people and our planet need it more than ever. we can work with who is ready to go, because the train is ready to leave. and those who are not yet ready, we need to continue during circle and to remind them that there are people, not our people, but very citizens, need them to get on board as soon as possible. called red cord red

to the g 7 countries cord red cord read to the g 20 earth. the ha, that's what it said. earth to cop for those who are ways to see for those who have is to listen and for the laws who have a heart to fear. 1.5 is what we need to survive to degrees. yes, sd is a death sentence. for the people of antigua and barbara for the people of them, all these people have dominique and fiji for the people of kenya and mozambie. and yes, for the people of some more. and barbados. we do not want that dreaded death sentence, but we have come here to day to say, tre harder, tre, harder, because our people reclaim at armies the world, the planet,

leads our actions now, not next year, not in the next decade. thank in strong, impassioned words. there from mere motley, the prime minister of barbados. she's an extraordinary woman. she is leading her country at this moment through an ambitious program of reform. early a week ago, her country became a republic and earlier this summer, of course, barbados, and were felt the impacts were devastating. hurricane hurricane also. she knows all too well the impacts of extreme weather that are happening around the world earth to cops. she said $1.00 is what we need to degrees is a death sentence. what do we say to our people? if there is failure? what excuse do we give to failure? when will leaders lead as mere motley, barbados prime minister? we heard some pretty impassioned speeches all round this morning. let's bring in a tom right back on it. we'll have another gets between tom,

thanks for joining saturday, tom zab, author and political lobbyist outraged optimizon at. so 1st up, these speeches that we've heard it at every copy, we have these riley and calls, it's a bit different this year because we've always world leaders in place, some strong strong words. but will they be listened to? will that be enough to make a difference? well, that's the great question, right? but just taking the last 2 speeches that we've had. mean they just played such remarkable roles in helping people context where we are. i mean, so david explained that the planet we have right now is unique in the universe far as we now after 4 and a half 1000000000 years revolution. whether we have rain far so coral reefs in 50 years or 500 years, it depend on what happens in the next 10 to 15 years. it's an enormous responsibility and me, a motley talking about the fact that if the world really wanted to do this 9 trillion dollars in, in coven recovery, spending through quantitative easing, that could be spent on transforming the world economy. so, you're right. these kinds of speeches have been made before in paris and many other times, but i think what's different now.