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6 November 2021

9:00 AM

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

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Addressing COP26 in Glasgow, the Prime Minister claimed it was ‘one minute to midnight’ in the fight against climate change. How many warnings have we had?

— ‘We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years’ James Leape, WWF international director-general, 2007

— ‘Our planet has reached a point of crisis and we have only seven years before we lose the levers of control’ Prince Charles, Copenhagen climate summit, 2009

— Our ‘last chance to avert dangerous climate change’ Earth League, 2015

— ‘We have 12 years to limit...

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