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Leonardo DiCaprio tells summit climate change 'is fact'

Leonardo DiCaprio has said climate change "is fact" as he addressed the UN Climate Summit in New York.

Over 2,000 protests have taken place around the world, including in London.

"As an actor I pretend for a living - I play fictitious characters with fictitious problems. I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction," DiCaprio told the audience.

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Desmond Tutu: 'We've a duty to fight climate change'

On the UN Climate Summit, Desmond Tutu has said that we all have a "duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction"

Desmond Tutu. Credit: Zak Hussein/PA Wire/Press Association Images

As responsible citizens of the world – sisters and brothers of one family, the human family, God's family – we have a duty to persuade our leaders to lead us in a new direction: to help us abandon our collective addiction to fossil fuels, starting this week in New York at the United Nations Climate Summit.

The most devastating effects of climate change – deadly storms, heat waves, droughts, rising food prices and the advent of climate refugees – are being visited on the world's poor.

Those who have no involvement in creating the problem are the most affected, while those with the capacity to arrest the slide dither. Africans, who emit far less carbon than the people of any other continent, will pay the steepest price. It is a deep injustice.

– Desmond Tutu

The Archbishop emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel peace laureate was writing in the Observer.

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