David Attenborough issues passionate plea to tackle climate change – warning we have a 'moral responsibility' to step up

SIR DAVID Attenborough has given impassioned warning that "climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced".

The legendary environmentalist, 94, spoke via video link at a meeting of the UN Security Council and warned "we have a moral responsibility" and "the security of the entire world depends on your decisions".

The virtual meeting comes ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.

The broadcaster continued: “If we bring emissions down with sufficient vigour we may yet avoid the tipping points that will make runaway climate change unstoppable.

"In November this year, at COP26 in Glasgow, we may have our last opportunity to make the necessary step-change.

"If we objectively view climate change and the loss of nature as world-wide security threats – as indeed, they are – then we may yet act proportionately and in time.”

Adding: "Recognise the moral responsibility that wealthy nations have to the rest of the world, and put a value on nature that goes far beyond money".

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is chairing a UN Security Council (UNSC) session on climate and security – the first time a British PM has chaired the UNSC since 1992

He warned the UN Security Councilthat unless we take urgent action to tackle climate change, the world risks worsening conflict, displacement and insecurity.

Ahead of chairing the Council session, the PM said: “The UNSC is tasked with confronting the gravest threats to global peace and security, and that’s exactly what climate change represents. 

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Adding: "By helping vulnerable countries adapt to climate change and cutting global emissions to net zero, we will protect not only the bountiful biodiversity of our planet, but its prosperity and security.” 

Eco warrior Attenborough recently backed the PM's review into how nature and economics must go hand-in-hand to save the planet.

The PM has vowed to “build back greener” after Covid, and will vow to put eco-thinking at the heart of his Government to reverse long-running declines in the nation’s biodiversity.

This review says that ministers must protect vital natural resources, increase natural solutions to the world’s problems, and discourage policies which damage the planet.

And argues wealth and prosperity shouldn’t only be measured in money and GDP, but how it invests in nature and secures the planet for the future.

It is also backed by The Prince of Wales.

The COP26 event is a global United Nations summit about climate change and how countries are planning to tackle it.

The UK holds the presidency of the Security Council this month and will host the climate summit in November.

The summit in Glasgow will be attended by dozens of world leaders and is likely to be the most significant round of talks since the global Paris Agreement to tackle climate change was secured in 2015.

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