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President for COP 26, Alok Sharma, attends the opening ceremony at SECC in Glasgow, Scotland
COP26 president Alok Sharma used his opening address to warn that the next two weeks of crucial climate talks in Glasgow would be the last and best chance to keep global temperature limits to 1.5°C.
Mr Sharma told the first formal session of the conference in Glasgow that he believed the conference could launch a decade of ever-increasing ambition and action, warning countries gathered for the talks that they would succeed or fail as one.
Mr Sharma told delegates: “The rapidly changing climate is sounding an alarm to the world to step up on adaptation, to address loss and damage, and to act now to keep 1.5 alive.
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