World leaders open Cop26 with climate crisis warning: 'Digging our own graves'

The UN secretary general António Guterres warned humanity was ‘digging its own grave’ as the Cop26 climate talks opened in Glasgow. He was joined by Boris Johnson, Prince Charles, Sir David Attenborough and Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley - all of whom delivered a scathing critique of world leaders’ efforts so far to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate breakdown

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