World leaders urged to 'save humanity' at climate summit

Queen Elizabeth urges leaders to make 'common cause' to tackle climate change

China, by far the world's biggest carbon polluter, has just submitted to the UN its revised climate plan, which repeats a long-standing goal of peaking emissions by 2030

Queen Elizabeth II on Monday called on world leaders to act together to tackle climate change at the end of the first day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

But more than 120 heads of state and government gathered in Glasgow for the two-day event at the start of the UN's COP26 conference, which organisers say is crucial for charting humanity's path away from catastrophic global warming.