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Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin arrives for Cop26 in Glasgow (Phil Noble – Pool\/Getty)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

World leaders have gathered at the crunch climate summit in Glasgow amid warnings that they must take urgent action to limit dangerous global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin, Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canadian leader Justin Trudeau were among some 120 leaders due to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue for Cop26 on climate change is \u201cmatching the rhetoric with action\u201d, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no alternative facing the world but to deal very quickly and urgently with the climate change challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, delegates arriving at the conference faced long queues to get into the Scottish Event Campus venue on Monday for the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British prime minister Boris Johnson, who was welcoming leaders to Glasgow for the talks alongside UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, will tell them that humanity has \u201clong since run down the clock on climate change\u201d and must act now to tackle the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince Charles, who will address leaders alongside Mr Johnson, is expected to stress the urgency of action \u2013 calling for the world to be on a \u201cwar-like footing\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 120 heads of state and government are set to attend the world leaders\u2019 summit at the start of the Cop26 talks, where countries are under pressure to increase action in the next decade to tackle dangerous warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US president Joe Biden, European leaders and India\u2019s Narendra Modi are among those attending the talks, although the heads of key major economies including China\u2019s Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference in Glasgow is seen as the moment when countries must deliver on pledges made in the accord agreed in Paris six years ago, to limit temperature rises to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to curb warming to 1.5C \u2013 beyond which the worst impacts will be felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also pressure on developed countries to deliver a long-promised $100 billion a year in climate finance for poorer countries least responsible for and most vulnerable to climate change, and address loss and damage caused by the impacts of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there will be efforts to drive action by countries, regions, and businesses to curb emissions in sectors such as power with efforts to phase out coal, as well as finalize parts of the Paris climate accord agreed in 2015 to make it effective and operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Countries\u2019 plans for cutting emissions in the next decade \u2013 key to limiting long-term temperature rises \u2013 leave the world well off track to meet the climate goals and put the planet on course for a dangerous 2.7 C of warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasgow is not expected to close that gap, so there is pressure to negotiate a road map for increasing ambition in the next 10 years to keep the 1.5C goal within reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the opening ceremony of the world leaders\u2019 summit on Monday, Mr Johnson will say: \u201cHumanity has long since run down the clock on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one minute to midnight, and we need to act now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t get serious about climate change today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also expected to say: \u201cWe have to move from talk and debate and discussion to concerted, real-world action on coal, cars, cash and trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot more hopes and targets and aspirations, valuable though they are, but clear commitments and concrete timetables for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to get real about climate change and the world needs to know when that\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing the Cop26 opening ceremony, Prince Charles will warn: \u201cWe have to put ourselves on what might be called a war-like footing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he will urge world leaders to systematically engage with business to solve the climate crisis, saying: \u201cWe need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector, with trillions at its disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening ceremony will also hear from naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, who is the Cop26 people\u2019s advocate, and UN chief Mr Guterres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World leaders will then set out the national action they are taking to tackle the climate crisis, while there will also be announcements on areas such as curbing deforestation and cutting methane during the two-day leaders\u2019 summit at the beginning of the two weeks of talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The start of Cop26 comes on the back of the G20 summit in Rome, where the leaders of the major economies \u2013 responsible for 80 per cent of the world\u2019s emissions \u2013 agreed to reach carbon neutrality \u201cby or around mid-century\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians in attendance in Italy also pledged to end public financing for coal-fired power generation abroad, but did not commit to phasing out domestic coal consumption.<\/p>\n

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