The PM warns that failing to act on climate change could consign future generations to shortages of food, conflict, mass migrations, all caused by global warming.
"We could consign our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren to a life in which there are not only huge movements of populations and huge migrations, but also shortages of food, shortages of water, of conflict caused by climate change and there is absolutely no question that this is a reality that we must face.Boris Johnson himself acknowledges he hasn't always been a climate change convert.
And these two summits, these coming days, are going to be very important for all of us as world leaders gather, first in Rome and then in Glasgow, to try to hammer out detailed agreements not just to limit global warming to well below two degrees - as agreed in Paris in 2015 - but to also"keep the 1.4 alive" - to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
"Look at evidence of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire if you doubt what I say, when Rome fell humanity became far less literate overall, people lost the ability to read and write, they lost the ability to draw properly, they lost the ability to build in the way the Romans did.
With 80% of all global emissions coming from the G20 group of industrialised countries, progress this week in Rome is seen as, the annual climate summit in Glasgow which is meant to put in place national commitments from individual countries to hit emission targets of 2% and below by 2050. "Team world is up against a very formidable opponent in climate change, and we've got to a lot to do," he said.
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