![]() This training is more intense and rigorous because it will be played out on a world stage. I liken it to training for an Olympic event. Yet, some personal and difficult work must be done on our part in order to achieve the victory. We can have the victory over the issues in our lives when we yield them up to God. Yet, as long as we have the Lord with us, as long as we can call on our Father, no issue in our lives is insurmountable. I can see him in my imagination with his construction hat on building up that issue in your life to make it seem insurmountable. But we are doing this not for ourselves but for our children and our children’s children, and those who will follow in their footsteps.Īnd so, I wish you every good fortune in this significant endeavour.The enemy loves for difficult issue to become roadblocks in your life. Of course, the benefits of such actions will not be there to enjoy for all of us here today: we none of us will live forever. That you left this conference as a community of nations with a determination, a desire, and a plan, to address the impact of climate change and to recognise that the time for words has now moved to the time for action. ![]() It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit – written in history books yet to be printed – will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity and that you answered the call of those future generations. I, for one, hope that this conference will be one of those rare occasions where everyone will have the chance to rise above the politics of the moment, and achieve true statesmanship. But what they do for the people of tomorrow - that is statesmanship. It has sometimes been observed that what leaders do for their people today is government and politics. And I have perhaps come to understand a little about what made them special. Working side by side, we have the ability to solve the most insurmountable problems and to triumph over the greatest of adversities.įor more than seventy years, I have been lucky to meet and to know many of the world’s great leaders. None of us underestimates the challenges ahead: but history has shown that when nations come together in common cause, there is always room for hope. In the coming days, the world has the chance to join in the shared objective of creating a safer, stabler future for our people and for the planet on which we depend. ![]() Indeed, I have drawn great comfort and inspiration from the relentless enthusiasm of people of all ages – especially the young – in calling for everyone to play their part. It is a source of great pride to me that the leading role my husband played in encouraging people to protect our fragile planet, lives on through the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William. “If the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as certain as anything can be, that the situation will become increasingly intolerable within a very short time … If we fail to cope with this challenge, all the other problems will pale into insignificance.” I remember well that in 1969, he told an academic gathering: This is a duty I am especially happy to discharge, as the impact of the environment on human progress was a subject close to the heart of my dear late husband, Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. I am delighted to welcome you all to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference and it is perhaps fitting that you have come together in Glasgow, once a heartland of the industrial revolution, but now a place to address climate change. ![]() Thank you, Prime Minister Holness, for your kind words of introduction. A speech by Her Majesty The Queen delivered via video message to the COP26 Evening Reception. ![]()
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