Glasgow: Thousands of protesters depart from Glasgow Park Saturday to march through the city who hosted the UN Climate Conference and demanded bolder global actions.
Students, activists, and citizens who care about the climate were bundled against the humid cold arm when they moved west of the Kelvingrove City Park to the center of George Square.
Bring a red flag and banner reading “Capitalism kills the planet,” The young crowd is energetic – some with Bullhorn – blaming the company for the climate crisis and shouting calls for socialism while punching their fists.
Elsewhere in the crowd, dozens of Scottish national flags, waved in the wind.
Still others call attention to climate judiciary and farmers who are vulnerable.
A few blocks away at the COP26 meeting, which has been going on since Monday and runs for another week, the speaker sounds alarms about how global warming destroys agriculture and threatens food security.
A week of the government’s speech and appointment so far have included promises to remove coal, cut emissions from methane gas green gas and reduce deforestation.
But activists said the meeting so far showed too little proof of progress.
At one stage at the conference, Idris Elba actor admitted that he had a little credentials to talk about climate change, but he was in COP26 to strengthen the threat of climate against global food security.
Sitting in the same panel, Vanessa Nakate’s climate judicial campaigner from Uganda begged the world to stop burning fossil fuels, the main cause of increased global temperatures.
“We watched collapsed agriculture and livelihoods lost due to floods, droughts and flocks of grasshoppers,” he said – what scientists said were being exacerbated by climate change.
“The climate crisis means hunger and death for many people in my country and throughout Africa.” Asked about his influence in climate talks, Nakate recorded outdoor protests.
“Change is what happens outside, what young people do, organize …
climate strike.
That’s where the change is,” he said.
Leaders and representatives of civil society from companies such as Unilever and PepsiCo spoke at a conference on the Company’s responsibilities in making trade and trade less than the burden on nature.
Talking about using satellite technology to monitor the global landscape, directors and founders of Google Earth Curract urging better management of world forests.
“We don’t want to write our planet obituaries in high resolution,” Rebecca Moore said.