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From Chile and Taiwan via Glasgow, youth call for climate justice
(Climate Home News, 5 Nov 2021) Glasgow’s schoolchildren and a global youth climate movement joined together today to demand Cop26 delivers climate justice.
Tens of thousands of people marched from Kelvingrove park, which recently hosted a gala dinner of world leaders, to the Scottish city’s main square. There, young climate activists including Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate and Sweden’s Greta Thunberg were due to speak.
As they walked down Argyle Street, passing near the venue for UN climate negotiations, they were cheered and whipped into a frenzy by university students holding home-made signs saying “no planet B” and “[heart] Greta”.
One man was trying to sell Scottish and European Union flags for £5 each ($7) but business was slow. “Good to get a bit of colour around the place,” he told Climate Home News, “and to show we’re in Scotland”.
Among the marchers was Paz Belèn Quevedo from Chile. She told Climate Home News that climate change was affecting not just Chile’s biodiversity but human rights. “There are a lot of hazard zones where there is a lot of pollution coming in,” she said
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Climate Home News, 5 Nov 2021: From Chile and Taiwan via Glasgow, youth call for climate justice
