Boris Johnson tells GB News 'huge geopolitical consequences' of climate change

Boris Johnson, who is in Rome for the G20 summit, spoke to GB News about his plans to tackle climate change.

He told Darren McCaffrey, "one of the first things I did when I became Prime Minister was to get in the scientists and to just go over the numbers. For, for my own satisfaction, for really quite some length."

The Prime Minister went on to say if the average temperate growth can be restricted to 1.5 degrees Celsius, "then we stop the prospect of so much desertification, we stop the prospect of the huge geopolitical consequences of climate change."

"The temperature rises and falls naturally over long periods of time but we've seen nothing like this huge spike that has been caused by humanity. And we've got very little time to fix it."

He went on to add that the temperate of the earth "will rise remorselessly" over the next century unless steps can be taken to bring it under control.

"But to do that, there are a lot of different things that you need to do with reductions in coal output, reductions in use of cars, planting millions of trees, and so on."