Queen tells Cop26 in video address it is ‘time for action’ on climate

British monarch urges world leaders to rise to challenge of true statesmanship'

The Queen has expressed her hope that world leaders would rise above the politics of the moment, and achieve true statesmanship" in tackling the climate crisis as she welcomed Cop26 delegates to Glasgow in a recorded video address.

In a message played at the evening reception, she also recalled how her dear late husband, Prince Philip," had warned of the threat of increasingly intolerable" world pollution more than half a century ago.