Sir David Attenborough to speak for the people at UN climate summit

Filmmaker takes new 'people's seat' and will form speech with input from social media

Sir David Attenborough is to address the UN's climate change summit in Poland in December, taking up a newly established "people's seat" at the negotiations.

The people's seat initiative, which launched on Wednesday, will give citizens around the world the opportunity to send their messages to leaders via social media, using the hashtag #TakeYourSeat. These views and information from opinion polling will then form the basis of Attenborough's speech to leaders.