biden. but the leaders of both china and russia, two of the world s biggest greenhouse gas producers, won t be there. the summit is being seen as the moment when countries must deliver on pledges to limit temperature rises to one point five celsius above pre industrial levels. the prime minister borisjohnson says the world is at one minute to midnight having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, and the prince of wales who is due to address the leaders today says a war like footing is needed to deal with the crisis. ahead of today s events borisjohnson spoke to our climate editor, justin rowlatt. would you say you re now an environmentalist, mrjohnson? i ve always been a passionate lover of the natural world. was always very, very conscious of the loss of habitats and nature, and appalled by the loss of forests. but it was only really on becoming prime minister, seeing the, you know,
arrive. next to arrive will be the french president emmanuel macron. you can t see him in these pictures, but we saw him behind the scenes, making his way to that area where borisjohnson and antonio guterres are waiting. also heading their way is us presidentjoe biden. he arrived in edinburgh a little earlier on air force one. he is actually based in edinburgh for the duration of the talks, but he will be going to glasgow and is due to be meeting borisjohnson. let s go back because emmanuel macron has now arrived and they are now having their official greeting. a touch of the arm between the two men who had those talks about fishing. there is a bit of a discrepancy about whether there was an agreement or not. there does not seem to have been an agreement. it
stop sea levels rising, or we could be underwater soon. these small islands, hoping for big commitments from world leaders to mitigate the worst that climate change might bring. lorna gordon, bbc news, in the uists in the outer hebrides. world leaders are still taking to the stage. borisjohnson and antonio guterres left the stage but they have been replaced by liz truss and the united nations representative than they are continuing to meet and greet around 120 world leaders who are here in glasgow for these initial two days of the world leaders summit. lots of people
thailand soon but keep waiting, i think we were relaxing. goad thailand soon but keep waiting, i think we were relaxing. good luck with everything- think we were relaxing. good luck with everything. very think we were relaxing. good luck with everything. very good - think we were relaxing. good luck with everything. very good to - think we were relaxing. good luck| with everything. very good to have you with us. i want to take it over to glasgow and show you pictures of air force one arriving ahead of the cop26 conference with the us presidentjoe biden and his team on board. he will be heading towards the conference centre in glasgow. i am being told he is arriving at edinburgh airport and he will travel to glasgow where he will be greeted by borisjohnson, the uk prime minister, who is welcoming all the world leaders to the summit of cop26. no doubt we
with are working in antigua so it is great to hear the prime minister speak, but essentially there are two things we need to do with a particularly exposed small island developing states. one is make sure when we invest we take account of the risks and the events we expect in the future. it seems incredible to believe but at the moment we generally do not do that as investors. we take it for granted. we have to make sure we encode the value of risk and resilience so we build for the future but the other key thing is we need to ensure we share the risks of these events across populations within the region and beyond. we can do that through building better public and private insurance systems so that when events occur money is distributed automatically to help people together not waiting months with glorified begging bowl hoping people come back but critically if we